The links below represent both physical and online collections and resources to find primary sources. Suggested starting points are in bold.
20th-21st Centuries
- Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940
- American Social Health Association Records 1905-1990
- Bracero History Archive
- Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive
- Civil Rights Digital Library
- Cold War International History Project
- The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
- Digital National Security Archive
- Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons
- Editorial Cartoon Digital Library
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Civil Rights)
- Father Charles E. Coughlin Archive
- FBI Records: The Vault
- Federal Theatre Project Materials Collection
- Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
- Grateful Dead Online Archive
- Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
- Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
- Jazz Archive
- Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
- LGBT and HIV/AIDS Activist Collections
- Literature for Children Collection (pre-1850 to beyond 1950)
- Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2012
- Martin Luther King Jr. Archive
- Mississippi Freedom Summer Collection 1964
- National Jukebox
- New Deal Network
- Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections
- South Asian American Digital Archive
- Stalin Digital Archive (contains correspondence between Stalin And F. Roosevelt)
- Stars and Stripes (American soldiers’ newspaper during World War I)
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the US and UK, 1815-1914
- Vietnam War Declassified CIA Documents
- Virtual Vietnam Archive
- Vogue Archive (1892-current month)
- Women Working, 1800-1930
Presidential Libraries/Presidential Digital Collections
- Clinton Presidential Library Digital Collections
- Ford Presidential Library Documents
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Collections
- Johnson Presidential Recordings
- Kennedy Digital Collections
- Mckinley Assassination Ink
- Nixon Grand Jury Records
- Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library
- Truman Library Online Documents
- Wilson Library and Archives
19th Century
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- American Pamphlets, 1820-1922
- Annexation of Hawaii: A Collection of Documents
- Black Abolitionists Archive
- Cornell University Collection of Political Americana
- Disability History Museum Library
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
- Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920
- Fenian Brotherhood Collection
- Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
- Immigration to the United States 1789-1930
- Literature for Children Collection (pre-1850 to beyond 1950)
- Making of America
- Nietz Old Textbook Collection
- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection
- Women Working 1800-1930
Slavery
- Anti-Slavery Literature Project
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938
- Boston Abolitionists
- California Underground Railroad
- Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies
- Friend of Man 1836-1842
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
- New York Historical Society Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery
- North American Slave Narratives
- Revised Dred Scott Case Collection
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
- Slaves and the Courts
- Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
The American Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
- Abraham Lincoln Papers
- The American Civil War Homepage (links to other resources)
- American Civil War Newspapers
- Becker Collection: Drawings of the American Civil War Era
- Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News
- Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
- Confederate Broadsides
- Lincolniana at Brown
- Making of America: Civil War Documents
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- Valley of the Shadow Project
17th-18th Century
- Adams Family Papers
- American Journeys
- Archives of Maryland
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
- Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
- Colonial Connecticut Records
- Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
- Early American Imprints
- Early Americas Digital Archive
- Early Virginia Religious Petitions
- Federalist Papers
- First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
- Founder’s Online: Correspondence and Other Writings
- George Washington Papers
- James Madison Papers
- Lee Family Digital Archive
- Letters of Delegates to Congress 1774-1789
- A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
- Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
- Plymouth Colony Archive Project
- Salem Witch Trials
- Sid Lapidus Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
- Thomas Jefferson Papers
- Writings of George Washington