History

A collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society, provides 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

A digital copy of Cabeza De Vaca's 1555 edition of La Relacion, detailing an account of his years in the Americas. Includes original text with side-by-side English translation.

100 maps, primarily woodcuts and printed engravings, from Yale's Beinecke Library Western Americana and General collections.

Published by the University of Maryland Library, a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820

Selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. It provides insight into indigenous cultures and encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers.

300,000 digitized pages of material from Harvards's 17th and 18th century collections.

Digital collection created by staff at the University of Connecticut Libraries

Political and legal papers, sermon notebooks, and correspondence of prominent figures in 17th and 18th century Massachusetts society.

Digital collection from the Charleston Museum Archives of images from the daybook of James Poyas, a Charleston merchant. Entries begin in February 1760 and end in April of 1765.

Includes digitized primary source documents from Cornell's extensive collection on withcraft.

Developed jointly by Historic Northampton and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, includes historic documents from the trial

Published in partnership with Scholars' Lab of the University of Virginia Library Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Yale Law Library's Avalon Project provides documents in law, history and diplomacy by century in America.

Digitized collection of the printer Peter Force, including pamphlets, booklets and newspaper articles, published and reindexed by Northern Illinois University Libraries.

Library of Congress collection that represents an historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean with over 2,000 items.

Digital collection from the Boston Public Library encompasses approximately 900 maps covering Boston and New England, as well as the remainder of eastern North America and the West Indies from 1750-1800..

The Library of Congress collection consists of approximately 8,000 items spanning the years 1726 to 1907, with most dating from the 1770s and 1780s.

Digital collection of a portion of the 135,000 pages of correspondence collected by the University of Virginia

Online exhibit from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan aims to showcase the spy letters of the Sir Henry Clinton Collection.

Archive of hundreds of eyewitness accounts of the American Revolution in and around New York City provided by New York University Libraries

"... a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. ...This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." (source: Making of America)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's digital publishing initiative providing access to oral histories, documents, narratives and other primary sources.

"challenges traditional ways that people learn about the past with its print, visual, and multimedia materials that explore the diverse social and cultural histories of the nation. " Source: website

Includes photographs, documents and sound recordings related to civil rights.

Library of Congress American Memory Project..."life histories ... compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940."

Yale Law School Avalon Project documents in law, history and diplomacy.

Includes images, books and pamphlets, journal articles, maps, sheet music, videos, data sets, political cartoons and posters, and oral histories.