Features more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).
Site sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this collection provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.
Dates: 1473-1700
Digital page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere.
Sponsored by Cornell University Library
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is comprised of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
RIAMCO is the gateway to information about archival collections in Rhode Island. Search the database’s finding aids to discover what historical materials are available for research and where those collections are located.
The Slave Rolls Project is a geographic index of 5971 files digitized by the National Archives. Each file contains payrolls for impressed enslaved laborers forced to work for the Confederacy.
Correspondence and other writings of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison from the National Archives
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
Dates: 1691-1820
More than 500 periodical titles including almost every 17th- and 18th-century American title in addition to the majority of works published before 1821.
Dates: 1838-1852
Over 1,800 titles revealing a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities.
Over 1,100 titles covering The Civil War. Provides a diverse record of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war, and news from the battlefront.
Over 2,500 titles reflecting the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life and a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories. Broad subject areas covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion.
