HIST 3243: Writing and Research for Historians

The American Presidency Project is an online archive of presidential documents maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara, and indexes documents pertaining American presidents from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama.

The Avalon project is a digital collection of documents pertaining to government, law, and economics. Documents in the collection range from those dated around 4,000 B.C. to the present. The project is managed by the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University.

Community & Conflicts is a digital library of journals, letters, and court cases documenting the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Areas covered include Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Texas, and Louisiana. Users may search the collection by keyword, or browse by county, battle, or theme.

Community & Conflicts is a digital library of journals, letters, and court cases documenting the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Areas covered include Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Texas, and Louisiana. Users may search the collection by keyword, or browse by county, battle, or theme.

The David Rumsey Map Collection is an image database of more than 35,000 historical maps from around the world. Although the site indexes images of maps from every continent, special emphasis is placed on maps from North and South America created in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Digital Public Library of America is an online portal to libraries, museums, and archives across the United States. Users may search the site by keyword, and narrow search results according to date, location, format, owing institution, or subject. The site also includes online exhibits on various American history topics.

Documenting the American South is a digital library of primary source materials on the history, literature and culture of the South. Topics covered include the Civil War, Southern literature, slavery, and the history of North Carolina. This initiative is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Early Americas Digital Archive is an online library of writings about the Americas, with documents dating from 1492 to roughly 1820. The collection is made available by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the University of Maryland.

European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. In addition you will find video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation.

Founders Online is a database of the correspondences and other writings belonging to Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Users may search this database by author, recipient, time period, or keyword. Founders Online is made available by the National Archives.

A digital portal sharing Oklahoma's rich history and cultural heritage, Including digital Oklahoma newspapers (and more) dating from the 1850s to the 1920s.

HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.

Part of Harvard University Library's Open Collections program, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 is a vast digital collection of books, manuscripts, and photographs on the history of U.S. immigration. A wide range of topics are covered, including various immigrant diaspora, the lives of immigrants, and restrictions on immigration.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

The Massachusetts Historical Society is a nationally recognized research library with archival collections pertaining to major events and figures in the history of the United States. MHS's online collections include the personal papers of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, documents on the Civil War and the end of slavery, maps from the French and Indian War, and more.

Selection of primary resources on significant moments in U.S. history and politics, curated by distinguished scholars.

The official site for the National Archives and Records Administration indexes digital copies of U.S. historical documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and World War II photographs.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.

Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project is a digital library of court records, letters, diaries, and maps pertaining to the Salem Witch trials. All of the site's materials are freely accessible to the public, courtesy of the University of Virginia Libraries.

The Valley of the Shadow is a digital library of letters, journals, government records, and newspapers documenting the Civil War in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. This digital library is made available by the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.

The Wilson Center Digital Archive is a resource where students, researchers and specialists can access once-secret documents from governments and organizations all over the world.