North American History Websites
General North American History
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital LibraryAmerican Memory historical collections contain documents, motion pictures, photographs, and sound recordings about many topics in the history of the United States.
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Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th Century AmericaIncludes fourteen narratives on slavery, thirteen diaries/memoirs, twenty autobiographies, and new resources are being added.
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Making of AmericaThis site is part of a collaborative project between Cornell University and the University of Michigan focusing on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The Making of America Project site at University of Michigan includes 200,000 pages of American publications from 1850 to 1900, it will include approximately 650,000 pages and several journals in the near future.
Native American History
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Edward C. Curtis's The North American IndianA complete collection of the images included in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian. Originally published in 20 volumes between 1907 and 1930, the work contained over 1,500 illustrations and more than 700 portfolio plates, all of which are featured at the site.
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Native American Documents ProjectCalifornia State University, San Marcos. Documents about the history of federal policy concerning native peoples.
Colonial American History
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American History: From Revolution to Reconstruction and BeyondFull text of primary sources and transcripts throughout American history.
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Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription ProjectThis site, created by the Danvers Archival Center and hosted by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, offers a number of primary documents and other materials related to the Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 that will interest historians and students.
Revolutionary American History
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The American RevolutionComplements the official companion site to PBS's Liberty! documentary series. This American Revolution website offers a chance to join in national discussions of American revolutionary origins.
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George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress 1741-1799From the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
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Liberty! The American RevolutionThe official online companion to Liberty! The American Revolution, a series of six one-hour documentaries to be broadcast on PBS.
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Spy Letters of the American RevolutionThis digital exhibition from the Clements Library displays and contextualizes a collection of letters written by spies during the American Revolution. Includes narratives related to espionage, spying tehniques, maps tracing spy letters' routes, biographies and a timeline of major events in the American Revolutionary War.
The Civil War
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Lincoln/NetThe Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project aims to bring together digital versions of documents, images, and even music related to Abraham Lincoln's life in Illinois from institutions throughout that state.
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The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil WarAn archive of material relating to the Civil War/ University of Virginia Research Project.
Modern America
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September 11 Digital ArchiveUses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attack in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them.