Digital Collections
- American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection, this offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. - American Periodical Series Online 1740-1900 Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals.
- American West Over 300 manuscripts-ranging from the original journal and papers of James Audubon, and a twelve page letter of Gen. Custer, to the logbook of a cattle trail driver and the Hinman papers describing the overland trail to California and the Gold Rush.
- Black Thought and Culture : African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Black Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approx. 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials.
- CQ Electronic Library CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) is an extensive reference resource comprised of fourteen separate modules, each with its own focus, for researching American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
- Declassified Documents Reference System Ranges from the years immediately following World War II through the 1970s. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and others.
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Online version of the microfiche set Early American Imprints, 1639-1800. Resource for aspects of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, e.g., agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, etc.
- ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online A comprehensive digital edition of The 18th Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, 1701-1800
- Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945 The Gerritsen Collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen in the late 1800s. The online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. Includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in 15 languages.
- In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives Search within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. Returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
- Making of America University of Michigan. A digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. This site provides access to 9,500 books and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Making of America, Cornell University A digital library of primary sources in American social history, this site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- North American Indian Thought and Culture Presents the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples in their own words and through the words of others. Coverage: 1677 to present.
- Oxford African American Studies Center : The Online Authority on the African American Experience. Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. **Only three simultaneous users**
- The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 The Sixties brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Topics covered include the African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 The collection currently includes 87 document projects with almost 2700 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors.
Digital Full-text Publications
- HarpWeek: the Civil War Era through Reconstruction (1857-1875) Full text of the popular 19th century magazine, Harper's Weekly, on literature, history, current events, culture and society. Includes images from Harper's Weekly, with index.
- The Nation Digital Archive The archive currently contains PDF page images and searchable OCR text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865. Issues dated after June 1999 through 2000 will be added in the near future.
- Godey's Lady's Book 19th century magazine intended to "entertain and educate" women of America. Early issues include biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, fashion, dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, and sheet music.
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Subjects:
American History, African American Studies, American Studies, American Indian and Native Studies
American Memory
- American Memory from the Library of Congress Primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. Most of these offerings are from the Library's unparalleled special collections and include photos, movies, sounds, and documents.
World Digital Library
- World Digital Library The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Digital Sanborn Maps
- Digital Sanborn maps 1867-1970 Digital Sanborn Maps is a collection of large-scale landbook maps which includes information such as the outline of each building, the size and shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, and location of windows and doors.
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