History: American History: Websites

Browse the Library of Congress American History Collections, and find essays, primary documents, images, and other artifacts.

Find political, social, movie, and religious speeches, among others.

Find primary source documents--related to law, history, and diplomacy--segmented by century.

Find books, diaries, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs related to the history, literature, and culture of the American South; from the UNC-Chapel Hill.

Find Web sites with primary source documents related to the study of American History.

Search this digital library of primary sources from the University of Michigan to find social history sources from the antebellum period to reconstruction.

Search this digital library of primary sources from the Cornell University to find social history sources from the antebellum period to reconstruction.

Use this search interface to find documents, images, and other records related to the history of the United States.

Find essays--sponsored by the National Humanities Center--on a variety of topics related to the environment and American history, including the Columbian Exchange.

Find letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, census records, and church records from two communities--one in Virginia, the other in Pennsylvania--to provide a glimpse of life during the Civil War era.