Research Guides: HIST 1301: United States History to 1876: Find Primary Sources Online

General U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online

AP (Associated Press) Archive Exclusive video footage from the Associated Press (AP), spanning many events across many decades. (Associated Press)
AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History
(WWW Virtual Library)
American Centuries: View From New England
(Memorial Hall Museum Online)
American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institute)
Library of Congress Digital Collections American history, 1400-present, documented by the Library of Congress. Millions of items: written & spoken words, audio, video, images, maps, sheet music, etc.
Americas Archive Brings together key political and cultural documents representing a multilingual “America” that includes Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America from the beginning of colonization to the present. (Rice Univ.)
Chronicling America
Digitized newspapers from a number of states, with most coverage 1860-1922. Library of Congress project. More newspapers are being added regularly. Texas component: Texas Digital Newspaper Program.
Digital History
(Univ. of Houston)
Documenting the American South
(Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
FBI Records: The Vault FBI documents on diverse topics ranging from gangsters and organized crime, World War II, and Vietnam to Civil Rights, counterterrorism, popular culture, and much more. Note: the dates listed beside each file generally represent when it was put online, not when it was created.
Gilder Lehrman Collection
(Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
Many Pasts: Primary Documents
(George Mason Univ.)
National Archives Research Catalog (National Archives and Records Administration)
New York Public Library Digital Collections (New York Public Library)
National Park Service Historic Photographs (National Park Service)
National Park Service History and Culture Homepage (National Park Service)
Pageant of America Photo Archive, 1860s - 1920s
(New York Public Library)
Picturing America, 1497-1899
(New York Public Library)
Smithsonian Institute Collections

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U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online
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