An indexed collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. Includes material from Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
This collection contains high-quality scans of archival materials from the University of North Carolina Southern Historical Collection. Materials include family papers, diaries, letters, and account books.
The valley project details life in two American communities, on Northern and one Southern, fro the time of John Browns Raid through the Era of Reconstruction.
Overview of materials in the Library of Congress about the African American experience covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere. Includes books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
Ever-expanding Historical Collections from the National Digital Library, are taken from the Library of Congress special collections and consist of primary source and archival materials relating to US history and culture. [Reviewed]
The Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. Searchable by keyword or ser
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Fede
This resource comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920.
During the late 1930s writers of the Works Progress Administration, interviewed thousands of former slaves throughout the American south. This Web site offers annotated transcripts of selected interviews with commentary on their research value and explana
Over 981 books and manuscripts on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Organized into the the following projects:
Documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights. Will eventually contain all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in English up to 1920.
An ongoing digital library of primary sources in US social history (1850-77) created in cooperation with Cornell University and supported by the Mellon Foundation. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
This collection of documents from The Avalon Project (Yale Law School) contains a broad array of documents relating to the historical roots of the Constitution, its original drafting, debates and revisions, and state ratification.
Catalog containing the materials collected at the Library Company of Philadelphia and other libraries. Materials include rare books, broadsides, pamphlets, wood cuts, lithographs, and maps.
This collection of documents from The Avalon Project (Yale Law School) contains a broad array of documents relating to the historical roots of the Constitution, its original drafting, debates and revisions, and state ratification.
Electronic version of the multi-volume anthology presenting a systematic history of the writings and debates that led to the final version of the U.S. Constitution.
The National First Ladies' Library provides primary source materials, photographs, and bibliographies for further study.
Many Presidential Libraries include digital collections for studying first ladies. You can find a list of these Libraries at the National Archives. Here is a group of pertinent collections:
Research guides and digitized collections from the presidency and lives of JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
To view the Jacqueline Kennedy digitized personal papers collection, please click here .