History

• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Independence
• U.S. Constitution (Including Dates of Ratification by Individual States for Amendments). See also Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation a browsable and searchable version of a Senate publication with annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court.
• American Memory: Primary Source Material in Digital Form from Library of Congress. Includes maps, photographs, sound, motion picture, and textual material.
• American Radicalism Collection scanned images of materials relating to the Black Panthers, Japanese Americans interred in relocation camps, birth control, Ku Klux Klan, the IWW, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Wounded Knee, the Scottsboro Boys, Students for a Demographic Society, and the Hollywood Ten. Select Digital Images for access to subject or alphabetical lists of titles.
• American Studies Web
• Avalon Project from Yale Law School includes digitized versions of significant historic texts from 17th-20th centuries. Nineteenth century materials include U.S. Statutes on Native Americans, Fugitive Slaves and Slavery. Materials from the 20th century include many WWII documents including American foreign policy 1941-49 , Nuremburg Trials and other primary source materials. Additional volumes from the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg are available from the Nizkor Project, a large archive of Holocaust materials.
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation This American Memory collection includes browsable, searchable versions of official documents from early congresses. The House and Senate Journals, Senate Executive Journal, Annals of Congress, Statutes at Large and Maclay's Journal are now online. In addition, the collection contains materials from the Continental Congress, including Journals of the Continental Congress, Elliot's Debates, and Farrand's Records. The documents are available in both image and text format. In April of 1999, the collection covered the years 1774-1805. The Library of Congress plans to expand the online collection to include congressional materials from the Continental Congresses through the 42nd Congress.
• Cold War International History Project sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., features online documents and discussion focusing on the Arms Race, Cold War, Intelligence, Kruschev Era, Reagan Era, Detente, Stalin Era and other topics. Requires one-time registration. No fee.
• Documents for the Study of American History includes materials from the 15th century to the present day.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum provides over 10,000 documents online. Currently, the Safe Files (papers locked in FDR's White House safe), the German Diplomatic Files, and the Vatican Files are available online. The Safe Files include "correspondence, reports, and memoranda concerning: The Manhattan Project, the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations, the O.S.S., the War, Navy, Treasury, and State Departments, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia, China, Great Brittain and France, General George Marshall, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek..."
• Foreign Relations of the United States "This historical record of American foreign policy is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian. First published in 1861, Foreign Relations of the United States preserves a key part of American history in more than 350 individual volumes. Each volume documents the major foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity of the U.S. Government and contains declassified records from the White House, the Department of State, and other foreign affairs agencies." Selected volumes online.
• Foreign Relations of the United States (Digital edition from the University of Wisconsin at Madison)--a browsable, searchable version of most volumes published from 1861-1992.
• Historic Census Information, 1790-1960, including total, white, free African American, and slave populations, churches, education and literacy, vital statistics, and economic data.
• Historic Government Publications from World War II--a collection of pamphlets on civil defense, conservation, nutrition, children, women in the workforce, war production, pocket guides to foreign countries, and other materials.
• Historic Documents and Resources from Project Vote Smart.
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace based at Stanford University, this website offers access to research papers, newsletters, online books, weekly essays by Hoover Fellows.
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents: Washington to George W. Bush from Project Bartleby.
• IMLS Digital Collections Registry this a collection of links to digital collections funded by the IMLS National Leadership Grant Program.
• Making of America
  A digital library (available from two different sites) that includes primary sources from the antebellum period through reconstruction that is "particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology." A cooperative project between the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, the University of Michigan, and Cornell University. The contents of the two university sites do not overlap. Search or browse both sites for access to the complete collection of materials.
  • University of Michigan's Making of America
  • Cornell's Making of America
• Maps
  • David Rumsey Historical Map Collection "focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children’s and manuscript maps."
  • Lewis and Clark: the Maps of Exploration: online exhibit featuring historic maps
  • Historic Maps from Rare Maps collection at Hargrett Library.
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  • NARA Archival Information Locator contains two search features. The archival holdings search finds descriptions of materials held at NARA. The database includes 124,000 digital copies of archival material. The microfilm search feature "allows you to search for [descriptions of ] microfilm publications ... via keywords, microfilm IDs, record group number, and/or NARA Viewing Location." Use this feature to determine if the nearest NARA regional office has a copy of the microfilm you need.
  • NARA Access to Archival Databases (AAD) created by NARA, ADD is an online access to a selection of nearly 50 million historic electronic records published by more than 20 federal agencies on a wide range of topics. A few data files were originally created as early as the 19th century. However, most of the electronic records in NARA's holdings have been created since the 1960s. Documents in AAD have been categorized into the area of All series, People, Indexes to Other Records, Subject, Geographic Areas, Organization, Time Spans, and Creator. To access the database, select a series first, then search a data file. Please visit getting started which offers better understanding of the search process.
  • NARA Microfilm Catalog is a searchable web database of NARA's almost 3,400 numbered microfilm publications. The described publications include those created by or purchased by NARA for researcher use. Search for descriptions of microfilm publications via the Microfilm Publications Catalog. These publications may be searched by keyword, microfilm IDs, Record Group Number, and/or NARA location. NARA has also produced specific microfilm catalogs which often include roll-by-roll listings.
• National Security Archive: "was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. Over the years, the Archive has become the world's largest non-governmental library of declassified documents" The archive provides "electronic briefing books" on major issues, descriptions of the microfiche collections, selected online materials, and other information. Many materials are from the collections are available in microfiche in the Government Publications Library. An online index and full-text materials are available from the Digital National Security Archive CU.
• 100 Milestone Documents Digitized copies of 100 milestone documents of the United States, dating from 1776 to 1965.
• Resources on Nonconsensual Human Experimentation Links to information on the Tuskegee Experiment, Nazi Doctors, Atomic Energy Commission experiments, and other topics.
• The Vietnam Project is a digitization project of Texas Tech University, containing Vietnam war documents from Vietnam and the United States governments, photographs, slides, negatives, audio and video recordings, artifacts, and oral histories.

• Amistad
  • The Amistad Case (National Archives and Records Administration) includes overview, primary materials, learning activities.
  • Exploring Amistad includes primary and secondary materials on the case.
• Atomic Archive provides timelines, biographies, photos, animations, selected documents, and other information about the invention of the atom bomb.
• Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents Online Exhibit from Library of Congress
• Grolier Online's The American Presidency: a hypermedia encyclopedia of the Presidents.
• Library of Congress Online Exhibit Hall provides online exhibits on topics such as African American history, significant Americans, cultural icons, and cultural materials from other countries.
• American Civil War Homepage includes documents, unit lists, commanders, pictures and more.
• American Political Prints 1766-1876 Images of prints in the collections of the Library of Congress, including: advertisements, allegorical prints, badges, ballots, banners, broadsides, calendars, caricatures, pictorial lettersheets, picture puzzles, political cartoons, political posters, portrait prints, picture puzzles, sheet music, sheet music covers, and tobacco package covers. Select prints by topic, by person's name, by year/years or search by print type, year, or words in the annotation. Sponsored by Harpers Weekly.
• American West Online from National Archives and Records Administration.
• Black History from Britannica includes hundreds of biographies, definitions of terms,and a timeline of significant events in the history of African Americans.
• Links to the Past: National Park Service Cultural Resources.
• National Archives and Records Exhibit Hall: online exhibitions of historic documents.
• USDA Historical Photographs--a collection of photos taken between 1937 and 1943 during the Farm Security Administration (FSA) era. The photographs, grouped by topic (such as domestic scenes, agriculture, business, marchinery, education, and portraiture), were taken by famous and not-so-famous photographers including Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks.
• The West. The web page for the PBS series has timelines, biographies, full-text primary source materials.
• World War II Poster Database browsable by date, topic, or title. Searchable. Thumbnail sketches lead to a larger version of each image. Based on the collection of Northwestern University, includes posters published by the Department of Defense from the beginning of the war through 1945.

• Declassified Documents
• Military Operations
• Native American Information
• Public Records