This online collection presents digitized images of the AIDS Memorial Quilt panel maker files housed in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
The nation's oldest federal cultural institution, serves as the research arm of Congress, and is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts.
This Web site provides links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress that supplement and enhance the study of important documents in American History.
Includes more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera that document the political, social, and economic history of the U.S.
Preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic.
Stories and photographs about servicemen killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. You may also leave a tribute, a story or photograph about any of the servicemen killed during the attack.
Contains information on almost 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Alabama Maps is an ongoing project of the Cartographic Research Laboratory, which operates under the auspices of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.
Over 30,000 maps and images; the collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.
This collaboration with NYU Libraries collects many decades of high-impact, sometimes controversial, mostly U.S.-generated journalism that used undercover techniques.
Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States.
Offers an extensive directory of historical documents from pre-colonial days to the present. Many presidential inaugural addresses are included, as are some songs, poems, letters, and more.
Learn about the impact of the Civil War on two counties, Pennsylvania's Franklin County and Virginia's Augusta County, through the primary source materials.
This database was compiled in an effort to identify and chronicle the lives of 20th century men and women whose business leadership shaped the ways that people live, work, and interact.
Dedicated to preserving the stories and memories of Illinois' citizens, not just those of the famous and prominent among us, but of people from all walks of life.
Over 550,000 historical Air Force documents; histories, special studies, personal papers, end-of-tour reports, oral histories, interview transcriptions, etc.
A website about American Railroads that is a beneficial guide for both those “railfans” who may want to know the detailed particulars on a subject, as well as someone with a passing interest.
5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
Each of the site’s five sections contains two essays—an overview of the topic and a more focused case study—plus a select annotated bibliography or bibliographic essay to guide further reading.
Collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964.
Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours, is contained in the Archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems.
Offering educators, students, and the public access to more than 200,000 photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, and other artifacts.
This website has links to other primary source websites. It ranges from AMDOCS, EuroDocs, Medical Front WWI, Medieval Tournai, World War I Document Archive plus others.
Images and related objects from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Examines the U.S. national capital from multiple perspectives as a case study of social, political, cultural, and medical/scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War.
An extensive study of the properties within the French Quarter referencing historical, architectural, legal and sociological data on property and structures from French colonial times to the present.
The Encyclopedia represents the contributions of hundreds of academic scholars and talented amateur historians to the interpretation and understanding of the history of Greater Cleveland.
Out of the stacks and vaults of the National Archives comes this selection of eyewitness accounts, vividly transporting us to a deeper understanding of the events described.
More than 3,000 documents; new, previously unreleased files; records previously posted on our site but removed as requests diminished; and files from our previous electronic reading room.
Free online resource; thousands of unpublished letters and other papers penned by important figures such as James Madison, John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
The Library's mission is to foster research and education on the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and their continuing impact on contemporary life.
Details documents concerning the French experience in the Mississippi Valley in Paris repositories, as well as appropriate materials found throughout France.
This website, produced by the Martha's Vineyard Museum, tells the story of Laura Jernegan and the journal she kept on her voyage. It also tells the adventurous history of whaling.
Documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, newspapers, podcasts all tied to each other to provide you the most comprehensive sources for exploring the American Civil War.
This site will allow you to explore the contours of Martha Washington’s life while also providing you with a window on women’s lives during the 18th century.
This site has links to accessing the War of 1812 from the national Archives. It includes discharge certificates, records of impressed seamen and genealogical records.
More than 55,000 documents in a free, online format with extensive and searchable metadata linked to digitized images of each document, thereby insuring free access for a wide range of users.
Free public access to detailed descriptions of primary source collections maintained by more than 150 libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California.
More than 150,000 digital items, includes more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images.
Represents one of the first attempts in the U.S. to record pan-South Asian immigrant experiences in the Pacific Northwest using the medium of oral history.
Assembling at a single location documents from wide-ranging sources on United States government policy toward rendition, detainees, interrogation, and torture.
