United States History - Primary Resources

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II

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The American State Papers, comprising a total of thirty-eight physical volumes, contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes documents that cover the critical historical gap from 1789 to the printing of the first volume of the U.S. Serial Set in 1817.

Council of State Archivists

Contains 100 cartoons from the early part of the 20th century

A collection of photographs covering the years 1938-1969 at the University of Indiana Bloomington Digital Collections

The Avalon Project at Yale

Army University Library System

The Collection is an unusual resource containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States.

Provides full texts of Supreme Court decisions since 1893

Photographs range from 1860's to the late 1930's with most in the 1900's to mid 1920's.

October 27 - November 6, 1648

History and Politics Out Loud is a diverse collection of audio -- speeches and private communications -- relating to U.S. history and politics.

From the University of Michigan , "a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction." The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with nineteenth-century imprints.

Library of Congress

A federal government agency, the National Archives is the major repository of the government's historical records.

A catalog of archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archive, and historical societies located throughout North America.

This is a fascinating website with 16,000 listings that "facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the internet" including thousands of 19th century titles, and serial archives (magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals). It also provides links to other digitized archival book collections.

Library of Congress