Abraham Lincoln Online --speeches and writings

Abraham Lincoln Papers --more than 60,000 pages from the American Memory Project

African American Pamphlets, 1818-1907 --from the American Memory Project

African-American Pamphlets, 1824-1909 --from the American Memory Project

Africans in America --primary and secondary sources for the PBS series

Air Force Historical Research Agency

American Civil War --primary sources, images, and secondary sources from the University of Tennessee

American Family Immigration History Center --Ellis Island site for immigration history

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest --from the American Memory Project

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1940 --from the American Memory Project

American Memory Project from the Library of Congress --thousands of documents, photos, maps, films, sound recordings, etc. from the collections of the Library of Congress, including women's suffrage, African-American pamphlets, George Washington's letter books, life histories from the WPA, American Revolution broadsides, and much, much more

American Native Press Archives --a clearinghouse for information on American Indian and Alaska Native newspapers and periodicals

American Revolution

America, Russia, and the Meeting of Frontiers --huge site from the Library of Congress which features primary sources in both English and Russian

Archives of Maryland Online --includes thousands of government documents, especially from the colonial period

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School --mostly British and American documents relating to law and government from the 12th century to the present

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 --from the American Memory Project

Central Intelligence Agency - Electronic Document Release Center

The Church in the Southern Black Community --from the Documenting the American South Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cleveland Digital Library

Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State

Colonial Connecticut Records --a searchable database of images, including all of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776, vols. 1-15

Colonial Williamsburg History Explorer

Common-place --an excellent online magazine about American history before 1900, sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy  --from the Government Printing Office

Cornell Making of America Digital Library --mostly late 19th-century magazines

Crossroads Project Hypertexts --mostly nineteenth century books and related resources, also WPA slave narratives, from the University of Virginia

DigitalPast: A project of the North Suburban Library System --digitized historical documents from 15 different collections in Illinois

Documenting the American South  --slave narratives, Southern diaries, and other sources from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Documents for the Study of American History --from the University of Kansas

DoHistory --an excellent site of primary sources and teaching materials related to the book and documentary, "The Midwife's Tale"

DOUGLASS | Archives of American Public Address --texts of historic speeches

Dred Scott Digital Archive --85 documents related to the Dred Scott case, from the Washington University Libraries

Drop Zone Virtual Museum-- online museum and oral history about World War II airborne troops

Duke University-Special Collections --many online documents relating to women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and also Americans in the Philippines from 1899 to 1901, plus several online exhibits

Early Illinois Women & Other Unsung Heroes (1818-1918) --online documents from the Alliance Library System

Electronic Text Center --from the University of Virginia, includes many primary sources, including large collections relating to Native Americans, African Americans, the Civil War, and other topics

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online

Eugenics Archive --Archives of the American Eugenics Movement, from the Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 --from the American Memory Project

Exploring Amistad Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America --from Mystic Seaport Museum

Faces of Steel: People and History of the Acklin Stamping Plant --digital exhibit from the University of Toledo Library's Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections

Famous Trials --transcripts and other documents related to famous trials, mostly American, from Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Reading Room --thousands of pages of FBI documents available in PDF

Federal Land Patent Records --includes images of more than 2 million federal land titles issued between 1820-1908

FedStats --US government site provides links and information about statistics from more than 100 US federal agencies

Foreign Relations of the United States --online versions of recently-released documentary collections from the US State Department

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Freedom's Journal --full text of the first African-American owned and operated newspaper in the US, published weekly in New York, 1827-1829, from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, 1964-1965

From Revolution to Reconstruction --documents and other resources, especially strong for the colonial period to the Civil War

GALILEO: Digital Library of Georgia --includes access to Historic Georgia Newspapers Online, Georgia Legislative Documents (dating back to the colonial era), and Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842 (more than 1,000 documents)

Genealogy Resources on the Internet --from the University of Michigan

George Washington Papers

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory --from the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University

Guide to Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress

Haymarket Digital Collection --primary sources relating to the Haymarket Affair from the Chicago Historical Society

Historic Audio Archives from Webcorp Multimedia --World War II, Civil Rights movement, Richard Nixon, and more

Historic Pittsburgh Project --from the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

Historical Text Archive --large collection of primary and secondary sources from Mississippi State University

TheHistoryNet - Where History Lives on the Web

Illinois Alive! The Heritage and Texture of a Pivotal State, (1818-1918) --online documents from the Illinois State Historical Library and 26 member libraries of the Alliance Library System

Internet Archive of Texts and Documents: The United States --from Hanover College

Journal for MultiMedia History --online journal using hypertext and multimedia technologies

JSTOR --has the full-text of more than 600 journals going back to their first volumes, including many history journals.

Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws, and Treaties --text of US treaties with Indians, 1778-1883, and laws relating to Indians, 1871-1913

Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920 --from the Documenting the American South Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lost and Found Sound --from National Public Radio's All Things Considered

Making of America --a growing online collection which eventually will include 1,600 books and 50,000 articles from nineteenth-century America

Model Editions Partnership: Historical Editions in the Digital Age--an expanding collection of documents, including collections relating to the ratification of the Constitution, the first Federal Congress, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Henry Laurens, Abraham Lincoln, and Nathanael Greene

NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions

National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection --from the American Memory Project

National Archives Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

National Archives Records of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board

National Archives Records of the Indian Claims Commission

National Anthropological Archives

National Security Archive --primary and secondary sources on U.S. foreign policy

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections --a guide to locating manuscripts all over the country

Native American Documents Project

New Deal Network

New Perspectives on the West --primary sources used in the PBS series

Nineteenth Century Documents --mostly related to the coming of the Civil War, from Furman University

Online Speech Bank --a links page that links to text and/or audio files of speeches from throughout history, especially the 20th century

The Oregon Trail --an Idaho State University site that focuses on the 19th century pioneers, the Oregon Trail and the spirit of the American West 

Oyez Oyez Oyez: Supreme Court Multimedia Database

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 --from the American Memory Project

Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project

Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Primary Source Microfilm

Project Whistlestop --over 15,000 online documents from the Harry S Truman Library

Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives --from the American Memory Project

Race and Place: African American Community Histories

Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy --from Vincent Ferraro of Mount Holyoke College

Roanoke Island Freedmens Colony

Rootsweb --huge genealogy site

Salem Witchcraft Trials

Scholarly Resources Microfilm

Seneca Village --site about the village of free African Americans, Germans, and Irish destroyed to make room for Central Park in New York; intended to encourage secondary school students to become historical detectives

Sipapu--The Anasazi Emergence into the Cyber World --excellent site created by John Kantner of Georgia State University

Sixties Project and Viet Nam Generation, Inc. --personal narratives, manifestoes from radical groups, and links

Southern Oral History Program Collection Descriptions

Student Activism in the 1930s --primary sources on the student movement from the New Deal Network

Supreme Court Opinions --every Supreme Court decision since 1893 from FindLaw

Tangled Roots --about the shared history of Americans of Irish and African heritage, from the Gilder Lehrman Institute for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery

Tax History Project --from Tax Analysts

Thomas Jefferson Papers --more than 80,000 digitized pages from the American Memory Project

THOMAS -- Legislative Information from the U.S. Congress on the Internet

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire --from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture --a multimedia archive created by Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia

United States Historical Census Data Browser --online database with information on the population and economy of every state and county from 1790 to1970

--includes thousands of online photographs and documents about the Pacific Northwest

U.S. Army Center of Military History --includes online documents and secondary sources

U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry --information about insignia, medals, etc.

U.S. Army Military History Institute --includes online documents

U.S. Civil War Center

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 --from the American Memory Project

USGenWeb Project --genealogy

U.S. Navy History --from the Naval Historical Center

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

Virtual Jamestown

The Wars for Viet Nam --Vassar College’s site integrates analysis and primary documents to provide a lucid, authoritative look at Vietnam

Web de Anza: An Interactive Study Environment on Spanish Exploration and Colonization of "Alta California" 1774-1776 --includes diaries and letters in Spanish and English

WestWeb: Western History Resource

White House Historical Association - letters and diaries of American Presidents and the pictures of the White House and White House events.

Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History  --from the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian Institution

Witchcraft in Salem Village --documents from the University of Virginia

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 --NEH-funded project at SUNY-Binghamton

Women's Studies --includes facsimiles of seven diaries by women, six of whom were American, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 --from the University of Minnesota

Worcester Women's History Project --includes online documents about the 1850 and 1851 women's rights conventions