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- Artstor This link opens in a new windowMore than 2.5 million images related to art, art history, architecture, painting, photography, and visual and material culture.
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Primary Sources
- American Presidency ProjectIncludes more than 100,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency including public papers, proclamations, addresses, and executive orders.
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography This link opens in a new windowCollection of autobiographies of former slaves in the United States.
- ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new windowProvides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide,
- Archives Unbound This link opens in a new windowPrimary source collection of historical documents that include: Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984; Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama and more.
- CWLU Herstory ProjectHistory of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union during the 1960-1970's.
- Discovering American Women's History OnlineDatabase maintained at Middle Tennessee University that "provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States."
- Documenting the American SouthProvides Internet access to fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs related to southern history, literature, and culture.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Papers ProjectThis site, sponsored by George Washington University, provides access to many articles, columns, letters, and speeches written by Eleanor Roosevelt that shed light on some major 20th century events.
- Emma Goldman PapersAn major figure in feminism and American Radicalism who was an advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality, unionization, pacifism and socialism.
- European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
- Google MagazinesLinks to English language magazines digitized by Google including Ebony, Jet, and Life Magazine.
- HeritageQuest This link opens in a new windowResearch materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes city directories, 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules, U.S. Indian Census Rolls, Agricultural and Industrial Rolls and more
- LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowHistorically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs.
- Making of America"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."
- Making of Modern Law This link opens in a new windowLegal Treatises 1800-1926, digital images on 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published.
- Digital Public Library of America DPLA This link opens in a new windowProvides access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Find primary sources to use in school projects, academic research, family history research, and more.
- North American Women's Letters & Diaries This link opens in a new windowPublished letters and diaries depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Colonial times to 1950.
- Oral Histories of the American SouthOne of the collections from "Documenting the American South" provided by the University of NC at Chapel Hill. It consists of transcripts and audio-recordings of 500 oral history interviews on topics such as civil rights, women's issues, and politics.
- Salem Witch TrialsCollection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and CultureThis center in Duke University's Library "acquires, preserves and makes available...published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present."
- U.S. Serial Set This link opens in a new windowA collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. Includes Congressional Hearings. Coverage 1789-present.
- U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 This link opens in a new windowRecords and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, primary source for the study American history and the U.S. judicial system.
- Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889–1963More than 900 items illuminates the life of Jane Addams and covers the history and legacy of Hull House in Chicago.
- Woman in JournalismAn oral history project from the Washington Press Club Foundation, this site provides access to nearly 60 interviews of women who were prominent in journalism since the 1920s.
- Women Working, 1800-1930This collection of digital dccuments from Harvard University focuses on women's roles in the United States economy.
- Women's Studies in Digital ArchivesWebsite from ACRL identifies content available in broad digital collections of primary sources.
- Women's Veterans Historical CollectionEstablished at UNCG, the Women Veterans Historical Project documents the female experience in the armed forces through correspondence, diaries, photographs, published materials, oral histories, uniforms and other memorabilia.