Finding Primary Sources: Web Sites: U.S.

100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.

Documents for the study of American history.

Chronological list of links to major documents in U.S. history

hypertext versions of works by notable American authors, politicians, and reformers

artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them.

Links to various other websites - a large compilation of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America.

electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.

a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles

the complete, digitized volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776.

Maps/images, court records, labor contracts, public records, letters, first-hand accounts, and newspapers that document the Jamestown Settlement and "the Virginia Experiment."

from a collection at the University of Michigan.

from Yale Law School, documents in law, history and diplomacy

Full text of Supreme Court decisions - written opinions, oral arguments, and voting records.

FBI records on many individuals

University of Georgia collection of over 800 maps spanning nearly 500 years. Some emphasis on Georgia and region, but not exclusively

Text documents highlight the role of participants in the Free Speech Movement at U.C. Berkeley in the 1960s. Includes letters, journals, meeting minutes, newsletters, oral histories, pamphlets, press releases, reports, speeches, and statements. Media Cent

flyers and other campaign material from California and some United States elections from 1908 on.

Diaries, Memoirs, Letters and Reports Along The Trails West

diaries, narratives, and letters of the Mountain Man fur trade during the first half of the 19th century

copies of original documents and research materials relating to Indiana's constitutional history.

over 9000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the U.S.

over 7000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955, especially in the areas of Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty & Hygiene, and World War II.

images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines. These ads illustrate the variety and evolution of marketing images from the 1910s through the 1950s. The collection represents a wide

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science & technology.

documents, including newspaper articles, public records, church records, images, maps, military records, letters, and diaries, from 2 towns during the Civil War era - Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

Civil War documents

part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. Most of the letters were written to Scott's neighborhood friend Hannah Cone, in their home town of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, over the three y

links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the Civil War.

This archive enables students and other researchers to use primary documents in their study of political, economic, social, religious, racial and gender issues from the Jacksonian Era to the Gilded Age.

a digital publishing initiative that provides access to texts, images, & audio files related to southern history, lit, and culture. Currently includes 10 thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews & songs

prints, literature, historical account, guidebooks, maps, and photos.

A digital collection of texts, maps, and images, as well as access tools for digital and non-digital works, all concerning the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.

full-text collection of over 400 items, over 900 land ownership maps, census schedules, etc. - from 19th and early 20th century

collects and preserves first-person narratives of northeastern Ohioans who have participated in, or closely observed events which have significantly affected both the state and nation - tons of interview transcripts on many subjects

focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pa

document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the

Links, by category, to lots of artifacts available online.

includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History

a searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials. Included are clippings from a broad range of newspapers; composite photographs, called "keysheets" that contain large numbers of reduced-size promotional shots; music sheet samples f

The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces fr

includes lyrics and some tunes, along with background information on songs, divided by major events or eras (War of 1812, Gold Rush, etc.)

sheet music collection from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, covering a wide variety of music genres, including ragtime, dixieland, patriotic anthems, and big band sounds.

focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960

A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900

online documents, audio clips, photos, and political cartoons

selected documents from the published series, including ones from Colonial, Revolutionary War, Confederation, and Presidential periods, as well as some personal documents

a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets pub

digitized versions of many of his works, images, letters, and other documents

primary sources available on this site include correspondence with numerous people and photographs.

searchable set of 140+ titles, representing grammar, spelling, reading, arithmetic, geography, American history, civics, physiology, penmanship, and letter-writing.

Over Five Million Pages of Documents... chronicle one of the most creative technical innovators in the history of the world—Thomas Alva Edison.

images of scientists, apparatus, and laboratories which elaborate on the history of chemistry