| Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library | Photo archive of LBJ and the significant figures in his administration, a list of museum exhibits, a reference desk with selected speeches and biographical information, and an archive that includes oral history transcripts and information on the recordings Johnson taped of his telephone conversations while in office. The site is searchable and there are links to related sites. |
| James Madison Papers | Access the guides and content of >12,000 items, as well as text transcriptions, a time line, and essays. |
| Kent State May 4 | Kent State University. Primary source materials from faculty, students and administration, court papers and documentation, photographs, press clippings, memorabilia and artifacts. Also articles, bibliography and links. |
| Making of America | University of Michigan/Cornell University. Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. |
| National Archive and Records Administration | |
| National Security Archives | George Washington University. Tens of thousands of documents about Desert Storm, the CIA in Chile, Peru's intelligence agency, the U.S and Chinese nuclear missile program, 1960-1964, the Cuban Missile Crisis, etc. |
| Nixon White House Tapes | CNN. Audio clips from 3700 hours of recordings. |
| Online Archives of California | More than 120,000 images, 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories |
| Oregon Historical Society | Samples of primary sources on Oregon history including an online photo gallery, original letters and documents, maps, and some photos from their artifacts collection. In addition, the Collections area of the site leads to a searchable online catalog of their holdings. Information about joining, upcoming events and exhibits, and using the museum for research. |
| Plymouth Colony Archive Project | University of Virginia. Searchable texts, including court records, colony laws, seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, and wills." Information on house construction, legal structure, women in Plymouth, domestic violence in the Colony, and servants and masters. Images of the material culture, maps, building reconstructions, and many illustrations and photographs. |
| President | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Links to archival material for presidents back to Hoover, presidential libraries, etc. |
| Public Papers of the Presidents | GPO. Links, and a guide to using the Public Papers. |
| Rare Map Collection | University of Georgia. >800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century, organized by general time period, location and two miscellaneous categories; city maps from Georgia and transportation maps. |
| Scanned Originals of Early American Documents | Emory School of Law. The U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights. |
Secession Era Editorials Project
| Furman University. Documents, editorials, speeches, and articles. Sections include: Early National Politics; Slavery and Sectionalism; Nebraska Bill; Sumner's Caning; Dred Scott Decision; John Brown and Harper's Ferry; 1850s Statistical Almanac; 1860 election; Secession and War; and Post Civil War. Links. |
| Spy Letters of the American Revolution | University of Michigan. Scanned images of original spy letters, transcriptions, background information. Techniques spies used in letter writing, brief biographies. A map shows the routes taken by the letters; there is a Timeline from 1763-1783; bibliographies for adults and young adults; and the Teacher's Lounge with classroom activities, curricular themes, study questions, and source interpretation. |
| Teaching With Historic Places | National Park Service. Images and documents linked to lesson plans based on national historic sites. |
| Their Own Words | Dickinson College. Books, pamphlets, letters, and diaries, 1764-1918. |
| Truman Presidential Library Digital Archives | Searchable documents relating to the Berlin Airlift, Israel, the atomic bomb, desegregation of the armed forces, the Truman Doctrine, Truman's presidential campaign, NATO, etc. Timelines. |
| U.S. Constitution | Emory School of Law. Includes entire constitution as well as amendments never ratified. |
| U.S. Declaration of Independence | Emory School of Law. The entire document. |
| Vietnam Veterans Against the War | Information about the organization and the war, articles from its current & previous issues of its periodical 'The Veteran', 1971- . |
| War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement | University of California Berkeley. Searchable collection of over 7,000 photographs and 317 slides, documenting the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans evacuated from California, Oregon,and Washington, by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II. The collection includes 691 photographs by Dorothea Lange. |
| Watergate | Washington Post. Includes analysis, main page articles, timeline, and biographies of the main players in the event that ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon. |
| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 | State University of New York at Binghamton. Organized around editorial projects" each of which "poses a question and provides 15-20 documents that address the question." They address specific topics, such as Lucretia Mott's Reform Network; Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woman Suffrage, 1900-1915; Workers and Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910; Women's Peace Mission to European Capitals, 1915; Women and the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912; Women Suffragists; Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s, and more. Related links are provided. |
| Women Working, 1871-1930 | Harvard University. Over 2,000 digitized books, manuscripts (10,000 pages) and 1,000 images related to women in the U.S. economy. |
| World War I Document Archive | Brigham Young University. Conventions, treaties, official papers, documents by year,diaries, personal reminiscences, image archive, biographical dictionary, maritime and medical information, links. |