Archives Research Guide: U.S. States and Regions

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.

Regional U.S. History: Primary Sources

• Archives of Appalachia
• Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive
• Digital Horizons: Life on the Northern Plains
• Digital Library of Appalachia
• Documenting the American South
• Great Lakes Maritime History Project
• Library of Congress Primary Sources by State
• Mountain West Digital Library
• Archives West
• Pacific Northwest Historical Documents Database
• Rocky Mountain Online Archive
• U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
• Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive

State History: Primary Sources

• Alabama: Alabama Mosaic
• Alabama: Alabama State Archives
• Alabama: Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections
• Alaska: Alaska's Digital Archives
• Alaska: Alaska State Library: Collection Guides, Indexes & Educational Resources
• Arizona: Arizona Memory Project
• Arkansas: Arkansas Digital Archives
• Arkansas: Arkansas Documents Digital Collections
• Arkansas: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies: Digital Collections
• California: California Historical Society Collection 1860-1960 (images)
• California: California Legislative Publications 1850-2009
• California: Calisphere
• California: Online Archive of California
• California: San Fernando Valley History Digital Library
• California: University of California Berkeley Oral History Center
• Colorado: Colorado Plateau Digital Archives
• Colorado: Colorado State Archives Public Records
• Colorado: Colorado Virtual Library
• Colorado: Denver Public Library Digital Collections
• Connecticut: Connecticut History.org
• Connecticut: Connecticut History Illustrated
• Connecticut: Connecticut State Library Digital Collections
• Delaware: Delaware Heritage Collection
• Delaware: Digital Archives
• District of Columbia: DC Digital Museum
• Florida: Central Florida Memory
• Florida: Florida Documents Collection
• Florida: Florida Heritage Collection
• Florida: Florida Memory
• Florida: Miami Metropolitan Archive
• Florida: Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials (PALMM)
• Florida: RICHES of Central Florida: Regional Initiative for Collecting the History, Experiences and Stories of Central Florida
• Florida: Historic St. Augustine
• Georgia: Digital Library of Georgia
• Georgia: Georgia's Virtual Vault
• Hawaii: University of Hawaii at Manoa: Digital Collections
• Idaho: Idaho State Historical Society Digital Collections
• Illinois: Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago's Hidden Archives
• Illinois: Western Illinois University Digital Image Collection
• Indiana: Destination Indiana
• Indiana: Indiana Historical Society Digital Images
• Indiana: Indiana Memory
• Indiana: Mastodon Digital Object Network: Preserving Information from Extinction (Northeast Indiana)
• Indiana: Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Digital Memory Project
• Iowa: Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
• Iowa: Iowa Pathways
• Iowa: Sioux City History: Your Link to the Past
• Kansas: Kansas Collection
• Kansas: Kansas Memory
• Kansas: Kansas University Digital Collections
• Kentucky: Kentucky Digital Library
• Kentucky: Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History
• Kentucky: Places and Faces: Northern Kentucky Photographic Archive
• Louisiana: Louisiana Digital Library
• Maine: Maine Memory Network
• Maine: Salt Story Archive: More than 1000 Stories from Maine
• Maine: Windows on Maine
• Maryland: Archives of Maryland Online
• Maryland: Digital Maryland
• Maryland: Maryland Historical Society: Collections Online
• Massachusetts: American Centuries
• Massachusetts: Digital Commonwealth: Collections
• Michigan: Detroit Historical Society Online Collections
• Michigan: Michigan County Histories and Atlas
• Michigan: Seeking Michigan
• Michigan: The Making of Modern Michigan
• Michigan: Virtual Motor City
• Minnesota: Iron Range Research Center Archival Collections
• Minnesota: Minnesota Digital Library
• Minnesota: Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories 1967-2012
• Minnesota: Minnesota Reflections
• Mississippi: Mississippi Digital Library
• Missouri: Missouri Digital Heritage
• Missouri: State Historical Society of Missouri Online Resources
• Montana: Montana Memory Project
• Nebraska: History Harvest
• Nebraska: Nebraska Memories
• Nebraska: NebraskaStudies.org
• Nebraska: Nebraska Western Trails
• Nevada: Reno Historical
• New Hampshire: New Hampshire Towns & Cities
• New Hampshire: The Granite State in Maps
• New Jersey: New Jersey Digital Highway
• New Mexico: New Mexico Digital Collections
• New York: Digital Collections
• New York: Hudson River Valley Heritage
• New York: New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery
• New York: New York Heritage
• New York: New York State Archives Digital Collections
• New York: New York State Historical Literature
• North Carolina: Digital Durham
• North Carolina: Digital NC
• North Carolina: Eastern North Carolina Digital Library

State History: Primary Sources

• North Carolina: State Archives of North Carolina Digital Collections
• North Carolina: State Library of North Carolina Digital Collections
• North Dakota: Digital Horizons
• North Dakota: North Dakota State University Digital Collections
• North Dakota: Primary Sources in North Dakota History
• Ohio: Black Swamp Memories (northwest Ohio)
• Ohio: History of Cleveland & Northeast Ohio (formerly Cleveland Digital Library)
• Ohio: Cleveland Memory Project
• Ohio: Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery
• Ohio: Columbus Metropolitan Library: My History
• Ohio: Digital Shoebox Project: Historical Treasures of Southeast Ohio
• Ohio: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
• Ohio: Greater Cincinnati Memory Project
• Ohio: Images in Time (Toledo & NW Ohio)
• Ohio: Ohio Digital Network
• Ohio: Ohio History Central
• Ohio: Ohio Memory
• Ohio: OhioPix
• Ohio: Photohio.org
• Ohio: Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County: Digital Library
• Ohio: Sandusky County Scrapbook
• Ohio: Toledo's Attic
• Ohio: Worthington Memory
• Oklahoma: Oklahoma Digital Prairie
• Oklahoma: Oklahoma State University Digital Collections
• Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Western History Collections
• Oklahoma: Voices of Oklahoma (oral histories)
• Oregon: Oregon Blue Book
• Oregon: Oregon Encyclopedia
• Oregon: Oregon History Project
• Oregon: Oregon State Archives Web Exhibits and Projects
• Oregon: Southern Oregon Digital Archives
• Pennsylvania: Digital Harrisburg
• Pennsylvania: Historical Images of Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania: Historic Pittsburgh
• Pennsylvania: Life in Western Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania: PA's Past (Penn State University)
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania History (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)
• Pennsylvania: PhillyHistory.org
• Pennsylvania: Power Library: PA Photos and Documents
• Pennsylvania: Power Library: PA Photos and Documents
• Pennsylvania: State Library of Pennsylvania Digital Collections
• Puerto Rico: Bibliotecas Digital Puertorriquenia
• Rhode Island: Providence Public Library: Research & Resources
• Rhode Island: State Library Digital Content
• South Carolina: Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
• South Carolina: Low Country Digital Library
• South Carolina: South Carolina Digital Library
• South Carolina: University of South Carolina Digital Collections
• South Dakota: Digital Library of South Dakota
• South Dakota: Digital State Archives
• South Dakota: South Dakota Digital Archives
• South Dakota: South Dakota State Library Digital Collections
• Tennessee: Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture
• Tennessee: University of Tennessee Knoxville Digital Collections
• Tennessee: Volunteer Voices.org
• Texas: East Texas Digital Archives
• Texas: Houston Area Digital Archives
• Texas: Museum of Houston
• Texas: Portal to Texas History
• Texas: Texas State Library and Archives Commission Online Exhibits
• Texas: West Texas Digital Archives
• Utah: Digital Utah
• Utah: Utah Department of Cultural & Community Engagement
• Utah: Utah State Digital Archives
• Vermont: Digital Collections at Middlebury
• Vermont: University of Vermont Library Digital Collections
• Virginia: Encyclopedia Virginia
• Virginia: Virginia Memory
• Washington: HistoryLink.org: The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
• Washington: Seattle Municipal Archives: Digital Document Libraries
• Washington: Secretary of State: Legacy Washington
• Washington: Washington Rural Heritage
• Washington: Washington State Archives Digital Archives
• Washington: Washington State Library Digital Collections and Resources
• Washington: Washington Women's History Consortium
• Washington: Yakima Memory
• West Virginia: West Virginia Archives & History
• West Virginia: West Virginia Memory Project
• Wisconsin: Recollection Wisconsin
• Wisconsin: State of Wisconsin Collection
• Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society: Explore Our Collections
• Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society: Local and County Histories
• Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society: Turning Points in Wisconsin History
• Wyoming: Wyoming Stories (oral interviews)