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History Librarian: James Millhorn
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millhorn@niu.edu
Web Resources
- Arab Net - (works best with Internet Explorer)
- Archive Finder - Provides information on more than 5,000 archival depositories in the United States that have combined holdings of more than 150,000 special collections. The database combines three index directories of primary source materials. First, an updated directory that supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States, last published in 1988. Second, the collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections, information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s through 1995; and third, collections indexed in the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States. The database is updated quarterly and is searchable by individual collection or repository site.
- Australian History on the Internet
- Australian Studies Network
- Becoming American: The Chinese Experience - Designed as a companion to the PBS television program, this page offers detailed eyewitness accounts of the lives and history of this large segment of the American population.
- British Library Integrated Catalogue
- Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
- Cornell University Library Historical Monographs
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - Biographies of persons who died between 1000-1930.
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography - In Welsh and English.
- Digital History (University of Nebraska-- Lincoln)
- Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
- Digital South Asia library
- Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection
- ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online
- E-Democracy.Org
- eHistory at OSU
- EurasiaNet
- Europeana
- Heritage Council
- Historical Society
- History Departments Around the World
- History: Links from Yahoo
- H-Net: Humanities Online
- Illinois Harvest Web Portal - Illinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, created by Illinois scholars, or included among the digital collections of The University of Illinois Library.
- IllinoisAtlas.com
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Labor History Links
- Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
- Migration Information Source - Migration data from around the world. Generate tables, create graphs, follow trends. Find out who is going where and how migration is shaping social, political, demographic, and economic futures country by country.
- Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
- PollingReport.com
- Portal to Asian Internet Resources
- Public Agenda Online
- Spain, The United States and The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
- Te Puna Web Directory: A Directory to New Zealand and Pacific Island Web sites
- The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert
- The History Net
- The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island: SUNY)
- Urban planning, 1794-1918: An international anthology of articles, conference papers, and reports. - John W. Reps (Cornell University) has compiled a bibliography of original source material in urban planning, primarily covering the 19th century. This wide-ranging site is a trove of information. Each bibliographic entry is annotated with a brief essay that includes a biography of the author and a discussion of the work's importance. Subjects covered include the principles, standards, and procedures for European, American, and Australian city planning.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
- WWW Virtual Library: History Central Catalogue
- Yale University Library Medieval Studies Guide
Organizations
- African Studies Association
- American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain
- American Association for State and Local History
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Historical Association
- American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
- American Jewish Historical Society
- American Oriental Society
- American Philological Association
- American Schools of Oriental Research
- American Studies Crossroads Project
- Association for Canadian Studies
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- Association for Gravestone Studies
- Association for History and Computing
- Canada's National History Society
- Council of State Historical Records Coordinators - [PDF]
- Institute for Anarchist Studies
- International Council of Museums/Conseil International des Musées
- Latin American Studies Association
- Middle East Studies Association of North America
- National Council on Public History
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- National Women's History Project
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Organization of American Historians
- Resources of Scholarly Societies- History
- Society of Ancient Military Historians
- Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Historical Societies
- Chicago History Museum
- Illinois State Historical Society
- Indiana Historical Society
- Michigan Historical Foundation
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Ohio History Online Portal
- State Historical Society of Iowa
- The Supreme Court Historical Society
- Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, Ohio)
Presidential Libraries
Arranged Chronologically
- George W. Bush Presidential Library
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
- George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
- Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum
- Truman Presidential Museum and Library
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
- Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum
- Theodore Roosevelt Association
- McKinley Memorial Library, Museum and Birthplace
- The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
- Andrew Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- James Monroe Presidential Library and Museum
- Thomas Jefferson Library
Specific Historical Topics-- World
- Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity
- Cold War International History Project
- Darwin
- Darwin Correspondence Project
- Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries
- Hidden Histories of Exploration
- In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narrative
- Judaism 101
- League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents - Based at Northwestern University Library, this digital collection contains 260 full-text League of Nations documents from the period 1926 to 1946. Three areas of the League's activities are emphasized: the founding of the League, international statistics published by it, and its work toward international disarmament. Documents are browsable by title and searchable by key words and phrases.
- Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
- LIFE Photo Archive
- Natural History Museum: Antarctic Heritage and Conservation
- Newseum: Today's Front Pages
- Organization of World Heritage Cities
- Perseus Digital Library
- Sacred Destinations
- Slave Trade Archives [pdf]
- Telegraph: World War II Articles
- The ARDA: Association of Religion Data Archives
- The Atlas of Early Printing
- The Complete Work of Charles Darwin
- The UN Secretary-General's Database on Violence Against Women
- United Nations Diplomatic Conferences
- World Monuments Fund
Specific Historical Topics-- Africa
- 16th - 20th Century Maps of Africa
- African Diaspora Archaeology Network
- African Union
- Canada & the South African War, 1899 - 1902
- Eternal Egypt
- Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
- Slave Trade Archives [pdf]
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 - 1960
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
Specific Historical Topics-- Asia
- Adieu Saigon, Au Revoir Hanoi
- Afghanistan Conflict Monitor
- Afghanistan Digital Library
- Arnold Arboretum: South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity
- Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907- 1927
- Children of the Atomic Bomb
- China Heritage Quarterly
- Civil Air Transport/Air America Collection
- Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection
- Digital South Asia library
- Formosa: A Digital Library of 19th Century Images of Taiwan
- Hedda Morrison Photographs of China
- In Asia: Weekly Insights and Features from Asia
- Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Periods
- Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection
- Korean War Project
- Magic Lantern Slides Collection from Japan
- Nanking Massacre Project
- National Digital Library of Korea
- Perry Visits Japan
- Portal to Asian Internet Resources
- Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
- Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith
- SPARROW- Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women
- Tales in Sprinkled Gold: Japanese Lacquer for European Collectors
- The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 - This beautifully built page illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California via some 8,000 images of photographs, letters, original art, cartoons, legal documents, business records and diaries. As the oldest and largest community of its kind in the United States, San Francisco's Chinatown receives special treatment. Based on materials from the libraries of the University of California- Berkeley and the California Historical Society.
- The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
- The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China
- The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860- 1989
- The Vietnam Center and Archive
- Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
- Virtual Shanghai Urban Space in Time
- Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.- Korea Diplomatic Relations
Specific Historical Topics-- Australia
- Australian Antarctic Magazine
- Australian History on the Internet
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Barren Regions: Early Dutch Books on the Exploration of Australia
- Evangelists of Empire? Missionaries in Colonial History
- National Archives of Austrialia: Documenting A Democracy
- Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia
- The Art of the First Fleet
- The Flinders Papers
Specific Historical Topics-- Central America and the Caribbean
- British Museum: The Americas
- Carl V. Hartman & The Costa Rica Collections
- Cuba after Castro: Legacies, challenges and impediments
- Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963- 1964 and undated
- Digital Library of the Caribbean
- International Indian Treaty Council
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
- Slave Trade Archives [pdf]
- The Mapas Project
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520 - 1820
Specific Historical Topics-- Europe and the UK
- "No Job for a Woman": The Effects of War on Women's Lives During the 20th and 21st Century
- 20 Years After: Life Beyond Communism in Central and Easten Europe
- A Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland's Heritage
- A History of the Crusades
- A Roma Journey
- Alexander Palace Time Machine-Life In A Romanov Palace
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
- Archive of European Integration
- Archives of Irish America
- Art and Literature in Siena 1250-1600 (Online Lectures)
- Avalon Project: International Military Tribunal for Germany
- Black Europeans
- British Empire Exhibition 1938
- British History Online
- British Museum: London 1753
- British Newspapers, 1800- 1900
- Calendar of State Papers, Foreign: Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
- Center for First World War Studies: Lions Led by Donkeys
- Center for Thomas More Studies
- Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame
- Churchill Speech Interactive
- Codices Electronici Sangallenses
- College of Europe: EU Diplomacy Papers
- County Waterford Image Archive
- Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
- Deutsch-juedische Literaturgeschichte
- Diary of Henry Machyn
- Dictionary of Victorian London
- Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides
- Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar
- Elizabethan Costume Page
- Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
- Europeana
- Evanion Collection of Ephemera
- First Book of English Madrigals
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- French Revolution Pamphlet Collection
- Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
- Gathering The Jewels: The Website for Welsh Cultural History
- Geoff Charles: Photographs of Wales and the English border during the Second World War
- Germany Under Reconstruction
- Glaswegians Photo Archive
- Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom
- Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers
- Henry VIII: Man and Monarch
- Historic Scotland
- History of York
- Holocaust Encyclopedia
- Honoré Daumier Digitized Lithographs
- Illustrated History of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Imperial War Museum Collections On-Line Database - [RealOne Player]
- Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, The
- la France en Amérique/ France in America
- LaFayette: Citizen of Two Worlds
- Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence 1763-1848
- Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
- Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camp
- Mapping Medieval Townscapes: A Digital Atlas of the New Towns of Edward I
- Medieval Studies Library Resources
- Mediterranean Travel and Trade, 1300-1800
- Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration in England
- Moving History
- Napoleonic Period Collection
- Naval-History.net
- Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939: Images and Documents from the Harrison Forman Collection
- NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
- Old Sussex mapped: Two Centuries of Sussex County Maps
- Online Historical Population Reports
- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- Oral History Interviews at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Oudry's Painted Menagerie
- Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
- Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807
- Polish Declarations Collection of Admiration and Friendship for the United States
- Presseurop
- Revelations of the Russian Archives
- Rose and Chess: Discover Two Reunited Medieval Manuscripts
- Russia and the Information Revolution [pdf]
- Scotland's Past
- Screen Search Fashion
- Soviet History Internet Archive
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
- The Battle of the Somme
- The Digital Locke Project
- The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries
- The Gertrude and Robert Metcalf Collection of Images of Stained Glass
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 - 1960
- The Image of France, 1795-1880
- The Interactive Nolli Map of Rome
- The Map of Early Modern London
- The Napoleonic Guide
- The National Archives: The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977
- The Nizkor Project
- The Pepys Diary
- The Tyndale Society
- The Word on the Street: Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
- Tudor Effigies
- Two London Chronicles
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Flight and Rescue
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Propaganda
- Universal Leonardo
- University of St. Andrews Photographic Archive
- Vatican City State
- Working Class Movement Library
- World War One Color Photos
- Yad Vashem - Located in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem (whose name is taken from the Book of Isaiah and means " an everlasting name") was created in by the Israeli Knesset in 1953 to serve as a center for the collection, documentation and preservation of the history of Holocaust suffered by the Jewish people between 1933 and 1945. Its archives hold the largest and most comprehensive repository of material on the Holocaust in the world- over 58 million pages of documents, nearly 100,000 still photographs along with thousands of films and videotaped testimonies of survivors. while its library houses more than 87,000 titles in many languages, thousands of periodicals and a large number of rare and precious items, establishing itself as the most significant Holocaust library in the world.
Specific Historical Topics-- Middle East
- A History of the Crusades
- Al-Assad National Library (Syria)
- Arabic Script: Mightier than the Sword
- Asia Society: Islamic Calligraphy
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
- British Museum: Middle East
- Codex Sinaiticus [Macromedia Flash Player]
- Coptic Chant at the Library of Congress
- Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
- Government Views of Iraq
- Iraqi National Library and Archives
- Jewish National and University Library (Jerusalem)
- Library of Congress Web Archives: Iraq War
- Maps of the Islamic Middle East
- MENALIB: The Middle East Virtual Library
- Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs
- Middle East Review of International Affairs
- Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association
- Middle East Times
- Milli Kutuphane (National Library of Turkey)
- Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey
- The Aleppo Codex Online
- The American Colony in Jerusalem
- The Gertrude Bell Project
- The Gnosis Archive: Resources on Gnosticism & Gnostic Tradition
- The Lost Gospel of Judas
- The Middle East Water Collection
- The Ottomans
- The West Bank and East Jerusalem Archaeological Database Project
- Travelers in the Middle East Archive
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Yad Vashem - Located in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem (whose name is taken from the Book of Isaiah and means " an everlasting name") was created in by the Israeli Knesset in 1953 to serve as a center for the collection, documentation and preservation of the history of Holocaust suffered by the Jewish people between 1933 and 1945. Its archives hold the largest and most comprehensive repository of material on the Holocaust in the world- over 58 million pages of documents, nearly 100,000 still photographs along with thousands of films and videotaped testimonies of survivors. while its library houses more than 87,000 titles in many languages, thousands of periodicals and a large number of rare and precious items, establishing itself as the most significant Holocaust library in the world.
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- United States-- General
- "The Pageant of America" Photograph Archive
- "With An Even Hand" Brown v. Board at Fifty - Afrocentric Sites
- A Collection of 4th of July Speeches
- A Literary Map of Maine
- A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns: 1787 - 1825
- A Nursery of Patriotism: The University at War, 1861- 1945
- After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture
- Alabama Mosaic
- Alcatraz Island
- American Centuries: History and Art from New England
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center
- Archive of Early American Images
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (Newberry Library)
- Battle Lines: Letters from America's War
- Bethlehem Digital History Project
- Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture
- Big Streets in a Little City: Downtown Street Scenes in Kiel, 1860-1980
- Black Members of the United States Congress, 1879 - 2004
- Boston African Americana Project
- Boston Gas Photos
- British Museum: The Americas
- Calisphere: a World of Primary Sources and More
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- City of Pullman Image Collection
- Congressional Hearings: Law Library of Congress
- Connecticut History Online
- Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
- Delaware Postcard Collection
- Denver Public Library: Western History/Genealogy Department
- Dictionary of Wisconsin History
- Digital Horizons: A Plains Media Resource
- Digital Library of Appalachia
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Digital UMass Archive
- Documenting the American South - This online assemblage of primary and secondary documents and publications on the history of the South consist of seven collections: First-Person Narratives of the American South, the Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, The Church in the Southern Black Community, The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940, and North Carolinians and the Great War.
- Emma Goldman Papers
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - This site offers the full texts of all articles in both the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, and was the first such reference work in urban history to be placed on the Web. In addition, a gallery of images and a file of topically relevant articles available only in electronic form are provided. Searching is available by subject and keyword.
- Everglades Digital Library
- FedFlix
- First-Person Narratives of the American South
- Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Florida Heritage Collection
- Florida's Shipwrecks: 300 Years of Maritime History
- Foreign Relations of the United States
- From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania
- Great Chicago Stories
- Historic Missouri Newspapers Project - [Internet Explorer]
- Historic New England
- Historic Pittsburgh Images Collection
- Historic Sites and People of Greenville
- History of Maine Fisheries Database
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
- Impacts of Resource Development on Native American Lands
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narrative
- International Indian Treaty Council
- Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes Digital Collection
- Iowa Digital Library
- I've Known Rivers: The MoAD Diaspora Stories Project
- Jack L. Demmons/Bonner School Photographs
- Kentuckiana Digital Library
- la France en Amérique/ France in America
- Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- Latino Settlement in the New Century
- Los Angeles: Past, Present & Future
- Louisiana Aerial Photographs
- Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections - Based at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, this body of materials contains some five thousand manuscript groups encompassing over ten million items, centered on the histories of the antebellum plantations of the lower Mississippi. Since its beginning in 1935, the papers of individuals and families, records of plantations, merchants and financial institutions, and the records of political, social, and labor organizations have been added. The most important of these collections relate specifically to the families and enterprises in the Lower Mississippi Valley, from Memphis to New Orleans, and are especially strong in the Natchez, St. Francisville, and Baton Rouge areas. The French and Spanish colonial periods in the region are also documented. 200,000 historic photographs and 120,000 books, periodicals, newspapers and maps complete the collection. Users will find a complete set of finding aids to each record group available on the page.
- Mapping the African American Past
- Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage
- Mass Moments (Electronic Almanac of Massachusetts History)
- Massachusetts Historical Society: Massachusetts Maps
- Massachusetts Historical Society: Photographs o f Native Americans
- Miami Metropolitan Archive
- Michigan County Histories and Atlases
- Middle Tennessee Oral History Project - [requires Real Player]
- Milwaukee Public Museum: 125 Objects, 125 Years
- Minnesota Digital Library
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Minnesota Historical Society: Places
- Minnesota Reflections
- Minnesota's Historic Shipwrecks
- Mountain West Digital Library
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
- National Park Service: Maritime History of Massachusetts
- Nevada in Maps
- New Hampshire History: Digital Collections
- New Mexico's Digital Collections
- New York Public Library: Audio and Video Archive
- New York State Historical Literature Collection
- New York State Historical Maps
- North Carolina Architects and Builders
- NYPL Digital Library: Cigarette Cards: ABCs
- Online Nevada Encyclopedia
- Oregon Multicultural Archives Digital Collection
- Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
- Palace of the Governors Library and Archives Digital Collection
- PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf
- Pennsylvania Covered Bridges: Digital Images Collection
- Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life, A
- Rediscovering New York History
- Rhode Island Critical Resource Atlas
- Rocky Mountain Online Archive
- S'abadeb- The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artist
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Florida
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina
- Sanborn Maps for Missouri
- Slave Trade Archives [pdf]
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative
- Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
- The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
- The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
- The Cultural Landscape of the UW-Madison Campus
- The Cultures and History of America: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress
- United States Military Academy Digital Library
- University AlbUM: A Digitial Collection of University of Maryland Images
- USC Digital Library
- UsHistory.org
- West Virginia Historical Photographs Collection
- Western New York Legacy
- Western Waters Digital Library
- Wisconsin County Histories
- Women in the U.S. Postal System
- Wyoming Newspaper Project
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- United States-- 17th Century
- A Brief History of New Sweden in America
- Charter for the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates: 1629
- Charter for the Province of Carolina : June 30, 1665
- Charter for the Province of Carolina : March 24, 1663
- Charter for the Province of Connecticut - April 23, 1632
- Charter for the Province of Maryland : June 20, 1632
- Charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay : March 4, 1629
- Charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay : October, 7, 1691
- Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania (1681)
- James River Plantations
- Jamestown Rediscovery
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
- The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- United States-- 18th Century
- "Common Sense" by Tom Paine (1776)
- Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive
- African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
- Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown, 1781
- Articles of Confederation
- Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words
- Coming of the American Revolution, 1764- 1776
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
- George Washington Manuscripts (University of Pittsburgh, Darlington Library)
- George Washington: First Inaugural Address In the City of New York (Thursday, April 30, 1789)
- History: The Colonial Williamsburg Official History Site
- James Madison Papers
- Jane Johnson Collection
- LaFayette: Citizen of Two Worlds
- Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence 1763-1848
- Maps of the French and Indian War
- Mount Vernon
- National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)
- National Portrait Gallery: Thomas Paine
- Notes on the State of Virginia
- Papers of the War Department, 1784- 1800
- Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" Speech (1775)
- Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
- Regional History Project: UC-Santa Cruz
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 - This contains over a hundred pamphlets and books concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. This site is searchable by key word or browse by subject, author, or title index.
- Tennessee Documentary History Collection, 1796-1850
- The Adventures of Daniel Boone Formerly A Hunter; Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky (1784)
- The Architecture of Jefferson Country
- The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
- The Diaries of John Quincy Adams
- The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
- The Papers of John Jay
- The Rochambeau Map Collection
- Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive
- Thomas Jefferson's Library at the Library of Congress
- Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- United States-- 19th Century
- American Civil War Homepage
- Antietam on the Web
- Barnard-Stockbridge Photograph Collection
- Black History at Harpweek
- Brittingham Family Lantern Slide Collection
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 Online
- Buffalo Bill Historical Center
- Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
- Dred Scott Digital Project
- Eric A. Hegg Photographs
- F&M Pennsylvania German Broadside Collection
- Farm, Field and Fireside Agricultural Newpaper Collection
- From Warrior to Saint: The Journey of David Pendleton Oakerhater
- Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Portraits
- Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory: A Virtual Exhibition
- Great Seattle Fire
- Harrisburg's Old 8th Ward
- Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
- Home Sweet Home: Life in 19th Century Ohio
- Homicide in Chicago: 1870-1930
- Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts
- Independent Lens: Banished -- American Ethnic Cleansings
- Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive
- Jewish Archives Collection
- John Jacob Omenhausser Civil War Sketchbook
- John Muir National Historic Site
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Digital Archive at Bowdoin College
- Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online
- Kenosha County History: Images and Texts, 1830s-- 1940s
- Lehman Brothers Collection
- Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Exhibition
- Lewis and Clark College Digital Collections
- Lincoln Institute
- Lincolniana at Brown
- Madison- Celebrating 150 Years
- Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
- Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps, 1885-1992
- Nettleton Civil War Letters at the Electronic Text Center
- New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Digital Collection
- One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
- Portraits of Scientists: Increase Lapham's Cartes-de-visites Collection
- Richard Throssel Photographs
- Ringling Collection: Images of 19th Century Actors and Actress
- Selling, Telling and Yelling: Florida Broadsides and Other Ephermera, 1800 - 2000
- Sherman's March
- Sioux City History
- Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889 - 1939
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
- Territorial Kansas Online
- Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills: Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s - 1940s
- The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs and Drawings
- The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
- The American Colony in Jerusalem
- The Becker Collection: Drawings of the American Civil War Era
- The Belgian-American Collection
- The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 - This beautifully built page illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California via some 8,000 images of photographs, letters, original art, cartoons, legal documents, business records and diaries. As the oldest and largest community of its kind in the United States, San Francisco's Chinatown receives special treatment. Based on materials from the libraries of the University of California- Berkeley and the California Historical Society.
- The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News
- The Civil War in Arkansas
- The Civil War Letters of Forrest Little
- The Cornell Daily Sun
- The Crisis of the Union
- The Georgia State Fair, Macon, 1886-1960
- The Henry Pippitt Diaries, 1862-1865
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 - 1960
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Periodicals
- The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory
- The Pullman State Historic Site
- The University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives: Fletcher Family
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - The Valley of the Shadow is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.
- Turning Points of Wisconsin: Original Manuscript Letters of John Muir, 1861-1914
- Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
- University of South Carolina Student Exams
- Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889- 1963
- Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
- Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.- Korea Diplomatic Relations
- Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience
- Women Working, 1800-1930
- Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- United States-- 20th Century
- 1904 World's Fair: Looking Back at Looking Forward
- 1969: The Year of Gay Liberation
- A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks
- Aerial Photographs of Colorado
- African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection
- AFSCME, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike
- Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Centennial
- Allegheny Conference on Community Development
- America in the 1930s
- American Experience: The Polio Crusade
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936- 1940
- Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
- Archives of Irish America
- 'As Far As Possible from Forgetfulness': The Trinity College Historical Society
- Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement
- Bisbee Deportation of 1917
- Boston at the Movies: First Films of the City, 1901-1905
- Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
- Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945- 1982
- C. William "Doc" Horrell Photo Collection: Coal Mining in Southern Illinois
- Campaign '68
- Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990
- Chicago Urban League Photos
- Citizens' Council
- Civil Air Transport/Air America Collection
- Claremont Colleges Photo Archive
- Database of American Labor Graphics
- David Rumsey Map Collection: 1979 California Water Atlas
- Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
- Delaware Notes
- Dissent During Crisis in America
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Eastman Project: Images of California Life
- Edward J. McCauley Photographs
- Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
- Eisenhower National Historic Site
- Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock
- Faces of the Fallen
- Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Florida Folklife Collection, The
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
- Folklore Pamphlets, 1921-1945: Wisconsin Historical Society
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
- Free Speech Coalition
- Frontline: A Company of Soldiers
- George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers
- Georgia Official and Statistical Register
- Going Down the Crooked Road
- Government Views of Iraq
- Harlem History
- Hawaii War Records Depository Photos
- Henry M. Jackson
- Illinois Digital Archives
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection: The Daily Illini
- Illinois Harvest Web Portal - Illinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, created by Illinois scholars, or included among the digital collections of The University of Illinois Library.
- In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945
- Interstate 50th Anniversary
- I've Known Rivers: The MoAD Diaspora Stories Project
- Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
- John Coltrane
- John V. Lindsay
- Just Passin' Through : The Lincoln & Victory Highways in Nevada
- Kheel Center Labor Photos
- King's Last March
- Korean War Project
- Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President's Doorstep
- LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
- League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents - Based at Northwestern University Library, this digital collection contains 260 full-text League of Nations documents from the period 1926 to 1946. Three areas of the League's activities are emphasized: the founding of the League, international statistics published by it, and its work toward international disarmament. Documents are browsable by title and searchable by key words and phrases.
- Lewis Hine Collection
- Library of Congress Web Archives: Iraq War
- Malcolm X Project, at Columbia University, The
- McKinley Assassination: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination
- Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps, 1885-1992
- Morris K. Udall: Oral History Project
- Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
- Online Archive of the Japanese American Relocation During World War II
- Oral History Project in Labor History
- Photographs of Frank B. Snyder
- Picturing the Thirties
- Pittsburgh and Beyond: The Experience of the Jewish Community
- Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection 1901 to 2000
- Poetic Waves: Angel Island
- Postcards from Manhattan: The Portrait Photography of Carl Van Vechten
- Princeton University Historical Postcard Collection
- Public Art in the Bronx
- R. Buckminster Fuller Digital Collection
- RadioLovers
- Roll Call
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
- Samuel P. Goddard Papers Online
- Sanora Babb, Stories from the American High Plains
- Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches - Read or listen to transcripts of speeches by famous African Americans.
- South Carolina Digital Library
- Southern Oral History Program
- StoryCorps
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Extreme History
- Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
- The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive
- The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection
- The Civil Rights Digital Library
- The Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection
- The Frank A. Matsura Image Collection
- The Gay Peoples Union Collection
- The History of Kentucky's Community Colleges Oral History Project
- The Living History Farm
- The Social Museum Collection
- The Sonic Memorial Project
- The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I 1918-1919
- The Study of the Spanish-Speaking People of Texas
- The Supreme Court Database
- The Torture Archive
- The Vietnam Center and Archive
- The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
- Throwaway History: The Broadside in American Culture
- Thurgood Marshall Law Library: Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
- U.S. FDA Centennial
- U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS
- University of Mississippi Visual Collections: John Elon Phay Collection
- University of South Carolina Libraries: Inventory of Church Archives, 1937- 1939
- UW Student Newspaper Archive
- Victory Mail
- W.P. Davies Newspaper Columns
- We Choose the Moon
- WhiteHouseTapes.org
- Willard Stewart WPA and HABS Photographs of Delaware
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
- Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Women's Party
- World War One Color Photos
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- United States-- 21st Century
- "Abundant Life to All": The Y.W.C.A. of the U.S.A.
- Philadelphia: The State of the City: A 2010 Update
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- Canada
- Barren Lands Digital Collection
- Black History Canada
- Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort
- British Museum: The Americas
- Canada & the South African War, 1899 - 1902
- Canada Gazette
- Canada in the Making
- Canada Yearbook Historical Collection
- Canada's National History Society
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Canadian Historical Association
- Canadian Illustrated News 1869-1883
- Canadian Letters and Images Project
- Canadian Opinion Research Archive
- Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides
- Canadian War Poster Collection
- Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
- Early Canadiana Online
- Expo 67
- Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory
- From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military
- Guide to the Canadian House of Commons
- Hill Times: Canada's Politics and Government Newsweekly
- Historical Atlas of Canada
- Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective
- Index to Federal Royal Commissions
- Manitobia: Life and Times
- Native Law Centre of Canada
- Newfoundland and Labrador Historic Map Archive
- Open Hearts/Closed Doors- The War Orphans Project
- Parliament of Canada
- Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
- Photographic Historical Society of Canada
- Real Companion and Friend: The Diary of William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1893-1950
- S'abadeb- The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artist
- Socialist History Project
- The Virtual Museum of Canada
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- WWW Virtual Library: Canadian History
Specific Historical Topics-- North America-- Mexico
- 1917 Constitution of Mexico
- Archivo General de la Nación México
- Archivo General de las Indias
- Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico
- Hemeroteca Nacional de Mexico
- Las Constituciónes de Mexico
- Mexican Presidential Messages
- Presidencia de la Repúblic
- The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire
- The Mapas Project
- Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520 - 1820
Specific Historical Topics-- South America
- British Museum: The Americas
- Exploring the Early Americas
- J. Leon Helguera Collection of Colombiana
- Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
- Latin American Travelogues
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures - [pdf]
- Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520 - 1820
Specific Historical Topics-- Russia
- Akkerman Fortress Project
- Images of Russia and Caucasus Region, 1929- 1933
- Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections
- The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
Periodicals
- HISTOS: the Electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography
- Ohio History: The Scholarly Journal of the Ohio Historical Society - Published from 1887 to 2004. Full of text of all issues are available on this website.
- Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
- The Indian Sentinel (1902-1962)
- The Power of the Internet for Learning: Final Report of Web-Based Education Commission
- Wisconsin Magazine of History
Government Sources
- Library of Congress
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Register of Historic Places
- Smithsonian Institution
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- U.S. Department of State: Office of Historian
Research Centers and Museums
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Archives Nationale ( France)
- Bentley Historical Library
- Center for History and New Media - George Mason University
- Center for the Study of the American South
- Center of Military History
- CESSDA: Council of European Social Science Data Archives
- East Asian Collection, The
- Ellis Island: The American Family Immigration History Center
- European History Museums
- George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
- Great Lakes Maritime History Project
- Historical Text Archive
- Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory
- Institute of Historical Research (University of London)
- International Institute of Social History
- Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
- Labadie Collection (University of Michigan)
- Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) (Seattle, Washington)
- National Archives of Ireland
- National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
- National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- National Public Broadcasting Archives
- New Jersey Public Records and Archives - [pdf]
- Northeast Historic Film Moving Image Archive - Located in Bucksport, Maine, this resource is a moving image archive specializing in northern New England. Genres included in its 300 collections are amateur works, professionally-created fictional works, films and videotapes by independent media artists, films created by corporations, television films, oral histories, sports and non-broadcast news.
- Open Society Archives (Budapest)
- Oral History Research Center at UNLV
- Public History Research Center
- Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources.
- Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
- The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
- The Center of the American West
- The European Library - Eleven million objects from 43 European national libraries.
- The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life.
- The Medici Archive Project
- The Migration Information Source
- United States Civil War Center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- World War I Document Archive





