Archives Research Guide: Websites with Primary Sources: United States

Digital Libraries and Primary Sources: United States

The following lists of resources are modified from The Bowling Green State University Libraries: https://libguides.bgsu.edu/HistoryInternet and https://libguides.bgsu.edu/internetprimaryUS.

• Up to 17th Century
• 18th Century
• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• 21st Century (including September 11, 2001)
• States and Regions

United States: Primary Sources

• 19th Century American Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies
• 100 Milestone Documents
• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
• American Founders Online: An Annotated Guide to Their Papers and Publications
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American exploration and settlement
• American Presidency Project
• American President: A Reference Resource
• American Women
• American Yawp: Chapters include links to primary sources
• Archive of Muslim American History & Life
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• Best of History Web Sites: American History
• Communal Societies Collection (Hamilton College)
• Crusade for the Vote (National Women's History Museum)
• Digital History
• Digital Public Library of America
• Digital State Archives
• Disability History Museum
• DocsTeach: Primary Source Documents
• Early American History and Culture Links
• eHistory
• Elections and Voting Data Guide 1789-
• Eyewitness to History: Index
• G. Robert Vincent Voice Library
• HyperHistory Online
• International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
• Library of Congress: Digital Collections
• Medical Heritage Library
• Medical Heritage Society (Internet Archive)
• National Archives: Access to Archival Databases
• National Archives: Advanced Search
• National Museum of American History: Collections
• Negro, Black, and African American Census Reports LibGuide
• Our Military Heritage (Allen County Public Library)
• Periscope Films (U.S. government military films 20th c.)
• Presidential Elections, 1789 to 1920: Resource Guides: The Library of Congress has made resource guides that highlight sources for the Presidential Elections, 1789-1920.
• Presidents of the United States: Resource Guides
• Prices and Wages by Decade
• Shappell.org: This Day In History: Includes letters, posters, photos, artifacts, etc. Particularly strong in 19th century U.S. resources.
• Songs of America (Library of Congress): A database of sheet music, audio files, etc. of popular songs.
• South Asian American Digital Archive
• Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History
• Umbra Search: Search engine for archival resources about African American history
• Americas Archive (Rice University)
• US Founders and Presidents: Primary Sources
• Voice of the Shuttle: U.S. History
• World Digital Library: United States of America
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: History: United States