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Native American History
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Native American and Indigenous archives
Native American and Indigenous archival collections from 1553
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National Indian Law Library
The National Indian Law Library is a law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law.
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National Archives
This page contains links to American history relating to Native Americans.
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American Indian Digital History Project
A Digital History Cooperative founded to recover and preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America.
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Native American Nations
Your Source for Indian Research: Rolls ~ History ~ Treaties ~ Census ~ Books
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Early Americas Digital Archive
A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820
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Enslaved.org
Individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade
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Google - Black History and Culture
History, arts, and culture of Black experience in the United States with Google
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The MLK Institute
Building upon the achievements of Stanford University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
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Slavery and Remembrance
Slavery and Remembrance - the power of legacies to forge our present and future
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The Library of Congress - African American History
Rare and unique items from the African-American collections to the National Digital Library
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Black Perspectives
Cutting-edge research on the lives of people of African descent and humanity
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Black history with JSTOR collections
Manuscripts, newspapers, documents and recordings, the story of African American art, photographic archives
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Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation Primary Sources
Curated items on African American life and history in the continental United States and the Caribbean
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Asian American History
Asian
Asian Nation
Historical, demographic, political, and cultural issues for the Asian American community
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Asian American Education Project
Online lesson plans tailored to K–12 curriculum for educators
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Smithsonian Asian Pacific
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through NMAH's collections, exhibitions, archives, and scholarly research
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U.S. Latino History
General
Mexican
U.S. Mexican History
U.S. and Mexican archival research, oral history interviews, and family photographs
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Bracero Program
Oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a Mexican guest worker initiative spanning from 1942-1964
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Mexican Newspapers
Historic Mexican and Mexican American publications from the mid-1800s to the 1970
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Onda Latina Audio Recordings
The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs
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Women's History Center
Women who have shaped and continue to shape the American experience
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Women History Blog
Women who lived in our nation’s past and who contributed to the lives we enjoy today
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The Civil War: Women and the Homefront
Print and manuscript materials related to women in the Civil War
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Working Women 1800-1930
Women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression
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Salem Witch Trials
Documentary Archive provided freely for non-commercial educational purposes
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Immigration Archives
Voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the Great Depression
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Archives of Irish America
Primary research on the Irish impact on the history of American social and cultural development
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South Asian Oral History
An oral history project to record pan-South Asian immigrant experiences in the Pacific Northwest
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U.S. Immigration 1789-1930
Voluntary immigration to the United States from the Constitution signing to the start of the Great Depression
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Angel Island Stories
Immigrant stories from Angel Island Immigration Station detainees to those arriving today
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Faith Identification
Muslim American History
Documents related to Muslim American history from the colonial era to the present
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American Jewish Historical Society
The oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the United States
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American Quaker History
Archival, manuscript, printed, and visual records concerning the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
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Digital Transgender History Archive
Online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings
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LGBTQ America
Historic places and cultural resources that played a central role to U.S. LGBTQ communities
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Digital Transgender History Archive
Online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings
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LGBTQ America
Historic places and cultural resources that played a central role to U.S. LGBTQ communities
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Economic Thought
General History
U.S. History Online
Created by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1942
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HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law.
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Smithsonian War History
How wars have shaped the nation’s history and transformed American society
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Primary Sources
Archives
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Large digital collection of free resources for teachers and students
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Digital Public Library
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators
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New York Historical Society
Highlights from the collections of paintings, drawings, photographs, manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and other materials
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Period History
Early American
College of the Mainland (COM)
Books, eBooks, articles, media and open access sources on American History 1450-1763
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Early American History Collections
Repository for historical material in the late colonial and early republic periods
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College of the Mainland (COM)
Books, eBooks, articles, media and open access sources on American History 1450-1763
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Early American History Collections
Repository for historical material in the late colonial and early republic periods
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18th Century
Revolutionary War Journal
Research and writing about the American Revolutionary War and Colonial America, particularly the impact and incredible sacrifice by African Americans in the founding of our nation.
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New York Public Library
Upwards of 50,000 pages of digitalized historic early American manuscript material
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Massachusetts Historical Society
Sets of digitized items on common topics or to highlight a specific collection
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Founders Online
Over 185,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects
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Lincoln Digitalized LIbrary
The product of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project.
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Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
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Boston Athenaeum
One of the country’s oldest independent libraries, with a circulating collection of over half a million books
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Western Americana Archives
Indigenous languages, the history of the American Indian, the Spanish Southwest, and photography of the American West
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Lincoln Digitalized LIbrary
The product of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project.
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Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
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Boston Athenaeum
One of the country’s oldest independent libraries, with a circulating collection of over half a million books
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Western Americana Archives
Indigenous languages, the history of the American Indian, the Spanish Southwest, and photography of the American West
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Great Depression Interviews
Interviews from the Henry Hampton Collection housed at the Film & Media Archive at Washington University Libraries
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Korean War Military Archives
Primary source documents from the The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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Vietnam - The Wilson Center
Declassified historical materials from archives around the world
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20th Century Advertising
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories
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Freedom Summer
Civil Rights movement records including the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964
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TV News Archives
More than 2,554,000 news programs collected over 4+ years from national U.S. networks
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Presidents
Presidential Resources
Presidential Public Papers
Material compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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FDR Archives
A virtual research and digital repository with free and open access to the Roosevelt Library digitized collections
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Presidential Public Papers
Material compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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FDR Archives
A virtual research and digital repository with free and open access to the Roosevelt Library digitized collections
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