Electronic Documents
in History

Going to the Sources

• Ask a Librarian: an online reference service from the Library of Congress
• WorldCat: 1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
• Internet Tutorials (University of Albany Libraries)
• The Historian's Sources (Library of Congress)
• What Are Primary Sources? (Library of Congress)
• Using Primary Sources on the Web (Reference and User Services Association, History Section, American Library Association)
• Manuscript Reading Room (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress)
• Library of Congress Manuscripts: An Illustrated Guide
• National Historical Publications and Records Commission
• Funded/Endorsed Projects and Their Products
  (National Historical Publications and Records Commission)
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• UNESCO Archives Portal
• Childhood Under Threat: State of the World's Children 2005 (UNICEF)
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
• World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
• World History Resource Center (Thomson/Wadsworth)
• World Press Review
• Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
• Smithsonian Photography Initiative (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• National Digital Newspaper Program
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research (University of Houston)
• Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts
• Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)
• Building an Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
• Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents (S. Townsend, C. Chappell, O. Struijvé)
• Digital Resources for the Humanities
• Resource Center for Cyber Culture Studies
• Humanities Resource Zone (Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University Computing Services, United Kingdom)
• The Internet for Historians (Virtual Training Suite, JISC, United Kingdom)
• The Internet for History and Philsophy of Science (Virtual Training Suite, JISC, United Kingdom)

History Textbooks and Course Syllabi Online

• U 101 College Search: Links to Learning Directory of Colleges, Universities, and Online Education in North America
• Syllabus Finder (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University)
• World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
• World History Resource Center (Thomson/Wadsworth)
• Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
• Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming, Charles Forcey, and Eric Rothschild, The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
• History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
• Choices for the 21st Century Education Program (Watson Institute for Internatinoal Studies, Brown University)
• History Matters: The US [History] Survey Course on the Web
  (American Social History Project/Center for History and the New Media)
• World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
• The Constitution Community (National Archives and Records Adminitration)
• ConnecText Catalog: A Registry for Online Textbooks
• Custombook.com
• Digital Learning Interactive
• iLRN: Interactive Learning Resource Network
• Learner's Library (Knowledge Ventures, Inc.) [paid subscrition site with database of
• Looksmart Findarticles
• Lulu: Marketplace for a World of Digital Content
• McGraw Hill Primus Custom Publishing
• MIR Faculty Online
• Newspaper Archive (Heritage Microfilm)British Library Online Newspaper Archive
• Online Textbooks (Digital Learning Group)
• Pearson Custom Publishing
• XanEdu: Utopia for the Mind (specialized course modules)
• American Textbook Council (focus on K-12 history texts)

Course Packs and Course Software Online

• BiblioBase: Custom Coursepacks for History (Houghton Mifflin Company)
• Blackboard.com
• Choices Education Program
• CoursePacks (Follett)
• eCollege
• Learner's Library (Knowledge Ventures, Inc.) [paid subscrition site with database of
• WebCT: The e-Learning Hub

Electronic Text Projects and Standards

• Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
• Studs Terkel: Conservations with America
• History Cooperative [includes recent issues of American Historical Review and Journal of American History
  (AHA, OAH, University of Illinois Press, and National Academy Press)
• The History E-Book Project (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents
  (S. Townsend, C. Chappell, O. Struijvé)
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (University of California, Berkeley)
• Historic Cities (Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library)
• The Modern Library
• Smithsonian Photography Initiative (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• National Digital Newspaper Program
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Newspaper Archive (Heritage Microfilm)
• TEI: The Text Encoding Initiative
• Computers and Texts (Computers and Teaching Initiative, University of Oxford, U.K.)

Specific Historical Documents, Subjects, or Periods

• Eyewitness to History.com: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
• Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
• Society for the Study of Curriculum History
• E-DOCS: Historical Documents on the Internet (Furman University)
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (C.W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston Libraries)
• Digital Library Projects
• National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA
• Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, sixth edition edited by Peter N. Stearns (Bartleby.com)
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
• World History Archives
• WWW-VL History Central Catalogue (University of Kansas)
• World History Gateway (Academic Info)
• World Civilizations (Washington State University)
• Reading About the World: A Reader for the Study of World Civilizations (Washington State University)
• World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
• World History Resource Center (Thomson/Wadsworth)
• World Press Review
• World Information.com [summaries of world politics and economics by continent, country, and political subunits)
• Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress)
• Mr. Donn's Ancient History (D. Donn)
• Ancient Near East and the Meditrerranean World (University of Chicago Digital Library Projects)
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (UCLA)
• Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
  (Brigham Young University)
• Documents in International Relations (Mount Holyoke College)
• Digitisation of European Cultural Heritage: Products-Principles-Techniques
  (Papers from conference at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, October 21-23, 1999)
• Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford University, U.K.)
• Celt Corpus of Electronic Texts (University College of Cork, Ireland)
• Selected Works of Martin Luther, 1483-1546
• The Center for Retrospective Digitization (Goettingen State and University Library, Germany)
• Early English Books [1475-1700]: Online Text Creation Partnership
• Documents in Military History (Hillsdale College)
• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
• Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
• Hypertexts @ the University of Virginia
• Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)
• Gilder Lehrman Resource Guides (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
• History Resource Center: U.S. (Gale Group)
• The Making of America Project (Cornell Digital Library)
• Making of America (University of Michigan)
• The Making of America (University of Michigan)
• Texts section of A Hypertext on American History: From Revolution to Reconstruction, a WWW Project in Collective Writing
  (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• Model Editions Partnership: Historical Editions in the Digital Age
• Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)
• Speech Archives (The History Channel)
• American Journey Online (Pimrary Source Media) [subscription required]
• City Directories of the United States (sarting from 1859)) (Primary Source Media)
• Innovistas (Crossroads)
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
  (Brigham Young University)
• Augustine of Hippo (J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania)
• Fathers of the Church (New Advent Catholic Supersite)
• Online Medieval & Classical Library (Berkeley Digital Library)
• The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Acquinas (New Advent Catholic Supersite)
• The Complete List of Popes
• The Online Medieval & Classical Library (Berkeley Digitial Library Sunsite)
• ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)
  (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
• LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online
• The Arden Shakespeare: The Critical Edition [with links to ArdenNet sources about Shakespeare]
• Surfing with the Bard (A. Ulen)
• The Newton [Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727] Project (Imperial College, London, England)
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham University)
• The William Blake [1757-1827] Archive
• Celt Corpus of Electronic Texts (University College of Cork, Ireland)
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• Archiespa: Directorio de archivos de España (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
• Early Printed Books on Religion from Colonial Spanish America, 1543-c. 1800 (holdings from the British Library
• Spartacus Educational
• Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
• A Chronology of US Historical Documents (University of Oklahoma Law Center)
• U.S. Historical Documents Archive
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Do History (Martha Ballard [1735-1812] diary to show use of primary sources)
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Yale University Library)
• Declaration of Independence Road Trip
• Declaration: Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation
  (Center for History and the New Media/Journal of American History)
• Constitution Day, September 17, 1787 (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Literature@SunSITE (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)
• Connect to GPO Access Databases (U.S. Government Printing Office)
• United States Government Manual (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Helpful Hints for Searching the U.S. Government Manual
• President site (Sunsite)
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Bartleby Library)
• Classics of American Colonial History (Dinsmore Documentation)
• The American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
• U.S. Presidential Addresses Since 1789
• Archive of Presidential Speeches (The American Presidency)
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• The Historical New York Times Project
• The States Inventory Project (States.org)
• Tennessee (The States Inventory Project: States.org)
• Presidential State of the Union Addresses Since 1934
• American Political Prints, 1766-1876: Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress (HarpWeek)
• The Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia
• Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
• The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Constitution Society)
• Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
• The James Madison Museum
• James Madison Papers, 1723-1836 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
  Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (Library of Congress)
• The Constitution Community (lesson plans from the National Archives)
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center
• Accessible Archives, Inc.: Primary Source Material from 18th & 19th Century Periodicals (subscription based)
• American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Lost Museum [P.T. Barnum museum, 1841-1865] (American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning)
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, Pre-1898 (Mount Holyoke College)
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 (Mount Holyoke College)
• The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (Cornell University)
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Wisconsin Pioneer Experience: A Digital Collection of Original Sources Documenting 19th Century Wisconsin History (University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online (Rutgers University)
• The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (University of South Carolina)
• Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience
  in 19th century America (University of North Carolina)
• Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University)
• Voices from the Days of Slavery (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• WPA Life Histories (Federal Writers' Project, 1936-40)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (American Hypertext Workshop, University of Virginia)
• American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [from WPA slave narratives collected in the 1930s] (Greenwood Publishing Group)
• A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920 (University of North Carolina)
• American Colonization Society: Records and Photographs of the American Colonization Society (Library of Congress)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
  (University of Pennsylvania)
• Getting the Message Out: National Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Northern Illinois University)
• America in the 1850's: An Archive of E-Texts (Assumption College)
• Secession Era Editorials Project (Furman University)
• The Presidential Elections, 1860-1912 (HarpWeek)
• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project (Northern Illinois University)
• The Lincoln Legal Papers (Illinois Historic Preservation Agency)
• Abraham Lincoln Association
• Search the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Association)
• The Papers of Jefferson Davis (Rice University)
• Crisis at Fort Sumter (R. Latner, Tulane University)
• The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
• Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
• Robert E. Lee Papers (Special Collections, Washington and Lee University)
• The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
• Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks of the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Presidential Elections from 1860-1884 (HarpWeek)
• Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes
  Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, OH)
• The Nation magazine sin ce 1865: History Packs
• Picturing Business in America: Hedcuts from the Wall Street Journal (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
• Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers University)
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
• The Papers of Samuel Gompers: A Documentary History of the American Working Class (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) [German/English]
• [art work from] The Masses [1913-1917]
• World War I Document Archive (Brigham Young University)
• First World War.com: The War to End All Wars
• Marx and Engels Online Library
• The Marx-Engels Internet Archive
• Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] series, 1900-1918 (University of Wisconsin)
• The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Communism in Washington State: History and Memory Project (University of Washington)
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery
• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
• Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
  Editor: Robert H. Bremner
  Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
• Margaret Sanger Papers Project (New York University)
• Resources on Antonio Gramsci (Queens College, CUNY)
• The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)
• French Posters from World War I (Library of Congress)
• Conscientious Objection in America: Primary Sources for Research
  (A.M. Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
• < a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~league/bibliography.htm">League of Nations Bibliography
  (League of Nations' Photo Archive, Indiana University Center for Study of Global Change)
• League of Nations' Photo Archive (Indiana University Center for the Study of Global Change)
• Hedda Morrsion Photographs of China, 1933-1946 (Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard College Library)
• League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents (Northwestern University Library)
• American Journey Online (Primary Source Media) [subscription required]
• Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (1931)
• The Henry Ford [Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Benson Ford Research Center]
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Heritage Center, Inc. (Worcester, MA)
• On-Line Documents (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
• Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project)
• Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic (New Deal Network)
• Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Iowa Labor Collection (Iowa State Historical Society)
• The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives (New Deal Network)
• Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 (Historical Voices.org)
• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Einstein Archives Online
• The Churchill Papers: A Catalog (Churchill College, U.K.)
• World War II Resources: Primary Source Materials on the Web (Purdue University)
• The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (American Experience, PBS)
• Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library [Adobe Acrobat .pdf format files] (Southern Methodist University)
• "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" [Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941]
  (National Archives and Records Administration)
• The Day After the Day Which Will Live in Infamy: "Man on the Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (American Folklife Collection, Library of Congress)
• War Letters (American Experience, PBS)
• Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Frankel-y Speaking: About World War II in the South Pacific (Stanley A. Frankel, 1919-1999)
• United States Straqtegic Bombing Survey web site (W.D. O'Neil)
• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, 5 vols., 83rd Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., 1953-1954 [Army-McCarthy Hearings] (made public January 2003)
• Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb (P. B. Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago)
• NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis (U.S. National Security Agency)
• The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (National Security Archive)
• The National Security Archive (George Washington University)
• Robert Griffith, "Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War Studies, or, How One Historian Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet," Journal of Multimedia History 3 (2000).
• Guide to Web Resources for the Study of the History of the United States Since 1945 (R. Griffith, American University)
• Declassified Documents Reference System-US (Primary Source Media)
• Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower Johns Hopkins University)
• John F. Kennedy Executive Orders (University of Michigan)
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography (University of Southern Mississippi) [includes complete transcripts]
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Investigation (Sehlby County[,TN] Register of Deeds)
• The HOLDINGS Project (R.A. Winbush, Fisk University)
• Writing Black (literature and history written by and about African Americans)
  (Keele University, United Kingdom)
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Scribbling Women (The Public Media Foundation)
• Free Speech Movement: Student Protest--U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65
  (Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley)
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Special Collections Library, Duke University)
• Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers Collection (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas)
• The Modern Library
• RonaldReaganWeb.com
• The Secret History of the Credit Card (Frontline, PBS)
• Corinne Blake, "Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology," Journal of Multimedia History 1 (1998)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
• 911: Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
• Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• 9/11 Public Discourse Project [ten-member 9/11 Commission followup group after release of final report]
• America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
• Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
• World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-27 June 2005
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• World Press Review
• nationmaster.com [statistical comparisons among countries by category]
• Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
• Childhood Under Threat: State of the World's Children 2005 (UNICEF)
• Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
  Editor: Robert H. Bremner
  Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
• The Cicero Foundation: 'an independent think tank focusing on European integration'

Opinion Polls

• The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
• National Council on Public Polls
• Gallup Opinion Polls on line
• Gallup Research Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• National Opinion Research Center
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (University of Connecticut)
• PollingReport.com
• Zogby International

Military and Propaganda Posters

• Meehan Military Posters
• French Posters from World War I (Library of Congress)
• The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)
• Sow the Seeds of Victory: Posters from the Food Administration During World War I (National Archives)
• World War I and II Propaganda Poster Archive (Stanford University)
• World War II Propaganda Posters
• WASP on the Web: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
• World War II Poster Database (Northwestern University Library)

Historiography and Well-Known Historians

• Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
• History and Historiography (University of Washington)
• Historein: A Review of the Past and Other Stories
• History & Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History
• Philosophy of History Archive
  (N.S. Rozov, Novosibirsk State University, Siberia, Russia)
• Hannah Arendt Papers (Library of Congress)
• The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library (Wolfson College, Oxford University, United Kingdom)
• Collingwood (list on historian and philosopher R.G. Collingwood)
• Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) [German/English]
• American Historians [oral history interviews] (Oral History Research Office, Columbia University)
• the/untimely/past: for those interested in the intersection of historiography with postmodernism, poststructualism and related varieties of theory/practice (J. Hearn)
• Project 2000 (Economic History Services) (essays on prominent business and economic historians and economists)
• Historical Event Markup and Linking Project

Documents

• Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
• Consider the Source: Historical Records in the Classroom (New York State Archives and Records Administration
• World History Gateway (Academic Info)
• World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
• Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho)
• Special Collections in the Library of Congress: A Selective Guide
• Citation of Electronic Documents
• Association for Documentary Editing
• National Historical Publications and Records Commission
• North East Document Conservation Center)
• Archival Data Online Repository, Data and Program Library Service (University of Wisconsin)
• Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digitial Resources from Historical Documents
  (S. Townsend, C. Chappell, O. Struijvé)
• University of Michigan Documents Center
  (government documents from around the world)
• U.S. Superintendent of Documents site
• Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Sup. of Documents)
• GPO Gate (Federal Depository Library, University of California)
• Migrating Government Publications by Title (University of Memphis)
• Migrating Government Publications by SuDoc (University of Memphis)
• United States Vital Records Information (includes state-by-state index)
• National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Access to Military Service and Pension Records (U.S. National Archives)
• Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records (U.S. National Archives)
• History and Historiography (University of Washington)
• Government, Law and Society (Carnegie-Mellon University)
• Historical Text Archives (WWW) (Mississippi State University)
• Historical Texts Archive (Mississippi State University)
• Byrd Historical Archives on WWW
• Reading Room for History, Philosophy, and Religion (University of MD)
• Documents in the News (University of Michigan Library)
• LETRS: Library Electronic Text Resource Service (Indiana University)
• Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
• Wiretap Gopher site
• Government Documents (US and World)
• Superintendent of Documents Home Page
• Kennedy School Caseweb: Case Studies in Public Policy and Management
  (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
• Declassified Documents Index and Abstracts Online [subscription required]
  (Primary Source Media)
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, 5 vols., 83rd Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., 1953-1954 [Army-McCarthy Hearings] (made public January 2003)
• U.S. Freedom of Information Act at 35 (National Security Archives)
• User's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (National Security Archive)
• Step-By-Step Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act (ACLU)
• Supreme Court Decisions (Case Western Reserve University)
• United States Supreme Court (Project Vote Smart)
• Selected Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
• Historic File of Supreme Court Decisions [1937-1975] (FedWorld/FLITE)
• Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court [1990-present] (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
• U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments (U.S. Law Week)
• Oyez Oyez Oyez: A Supreme Court WWW Resource (Northwestern University)
• Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research (Georgia State University College of Law)
• USSC+ (InfoSynthesis, Inc.)
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• 9/11 Public Discourse Project [ten-member 9/11 Commission followup group after rlease of final report]
• Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents (Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center)
  [official site with mostly untranslated primary source documents capture by U.S. Army]
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)

Historical Images

• HADDON: The Online Catalogue of Archival Ethnographic Film Footage, 1895-1945
  (University of Oxford, U.K.)
• American Journey Online (Primary Source Media) [subscription required]
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
• Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
• Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery
• Picturing Business in America: Headcuts from the Wall Street Journal (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
• Smithsonian Photography Initiative (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• The Picture Collection (Time, Inc.)
• Corbis: The Place for Pictures on the Internet
• Fotosearch Stock Photography
• ImageFinder (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
• Interactive Multimedia Learning Tools (Instructional Resources Corp.)
  (includes CD-ROM's for U.S. History and Western Civilization)

Historical Sounds Sites

• Talking History: A Radio Show
  (Departments of History, University of Albany, SUNY and Creighton University and WRPI-FM)
• National Gallery of the Spoken Word (Michigan State University)
• Vincent Voice Library (Michigan State University)
• Historical Speeches Archive (Webcorp) [Mostly modern U.S. History]
• E|Classical: Classical MP3 Stop
• Surfing the Aether (A Brief History of Radio)
• Library of American Broadcasting (University of Maryland Libraries)
• Radio Days: A Soundbite History
• Yesterday USA Superstation OnLine (radio shows from the 1920s through the 1950s)
  [requires RealPlayer audio/video player]
• Radioinfo: Radio's Complete Resource Center
• Eyewitness Records (Pacific Multimedia Corp.) [mostly post-1945 U.S. Political/Presidential speeches]
• Native Ground Music
• Doing Oral History
• U.S. History Out Loud (Oyez, Oyez, Oyez at Northwestern University)
• U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project (G. Zahavi, University of Albany, SUNY)
• LBJ in the Oval Office (RealAudio sound file format)
• FestivalFinder (Music Festivals of North America)
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)

Looking for Images, Video, Audio, and Animation Materials

• AV Photo Finder (AltaVista)
• Google Image Search
• Image Surfer Categories (Yahoo)
• MP3 Search (Lycos)
• Scour.Net
• Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)
• Guide to the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection

Manuscript Collections

• Repositories of Primary Sources (University of Idaho Library)
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• The Center for Electronic Records (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Special Collections in the Library of Congress: A Selective Guide
• Microform Publications, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. (collections in History, American History, and British History)
• Library Catalogs and Archives
• Newspaper Archive (Heritage Microfilm)
• Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University)
• Guide to the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection

Professional Papers

• Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
• Society for the Study of Curriculum History
• Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
• PROceedings: Political Research Online (Papers from 1997 American Political Science Association meeting)
• Foundations of Political Theory (Organized Section of the American Political Science Association)

Books and Journals

• TTU Inter Library Loan request form for books
• TTU Inter Library Loan request form(s) for article(s)
• Alex: Catalogue of Electronic Texts
• ConnecText Catalog: A Registry for Online Textbooks
• Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs
• Experience eBooks (netLibrary)
• University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
• The Great Books of Western Civilization
• Great Books--Texts and Fully Searchable Concordances (W.A. Williams, Jr.)
• The History E-Book Project (American Council of Learned Societies)
• Humanities Text Initiative (University of Michigan)
• The Modern Library
• National Digital Newspaper Program
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress/National Endowment for the Humanities)
• The Nation Digital Archive (Since 1865)
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (MIT)
• Literature@SunSITE (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)Writing Black (literature and history written by and about African Americans)
  (Keele University, United Kingdom)
• Scribbling Women (The Public Media Foundation)
• Internet Public Library Online Texts
• Alex: Catalogue of Electronic Texts
• Bibliomania
• Electronic Documents and Books (Historical)
• Eldritch Press
• The Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
• Electronic Books #1
• Electronic Books #2 (Classic)
• Project Gutenberg
• The On-Line Books Page
• Electric Book
• BookSpot
• Classics in the History of Psychology (York University, Toronto, Ontario)
• NetLibrary
• The Etext Archives
• Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters & Academic Discussion Lists
  (Association of Research Libraries)
• Historical Journals On Line
• PubList.com [directory of electronic journals and newspapers)
• UnCover Web (document delivery service via FAX and desktop computer)
• The Universal Library (hosted by Carnegie Mellon University)

Sample Chapter(s) of Books

• Chapter One (Washington Post)
• Experience eBooks (netLibrary)

Book, Software, Film, CD-ROM, and Video Reviews

• Booknotes (C-SPAN)
• Books and Reading (Washington Post)
• H-Net Reviews
• EH.net Book Reviews (business and economic history)
• Boston Book Review
• The New York Review of Books
• Books section (New York Times)
• New York Times Book Review
• Reviews in American History
• Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research, London, UK)
• Books & Reading (Washington Post)
• Video Librarian Online: The Video Review Guide for Libraries and Video Fans
• The Women's Review of Books
• Yale Review of Books

The Future of the Printed Book?

• History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
• Jason Epstein, "Reading: The Digital Future," New York Review of Books, July 5, 2001
• Clifford Lynch, "The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World," First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet 6 (June 2001).
• The eBook Store (Barnes & Noble)
• History Journals and the Electronic Future, the final report of a conference
  held at Indiana University, Bloomington, August 3-8, 1997
• History Cooperative [includes recent issues of American Historical Review and Journal of American History
  (AHA, OAH, University of Illinois Press, and National Academy Press)
• The History E-Book Project (American Council of Learned Societies)
• netLibrary

Copyright Issues

• Copyright Website
• Copyright Management Center (Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis)
• "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU [The Conference on Fair Use]," conference, Portland, OR, September 27, 1997
• Copyright, Fair Use & Licensing in a Digital World
  (National Initiative on a Networked Cultural Heritage)
• Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University)
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Works (CETUS)
• Copyright Act of 1976 As Amended (1994) (Cornell Law School)
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• U. S. Copyright Office
• Search (U. S. Copyright Office/ Library of Congress)
• Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
• The Conference on Fair Use [CONFU] (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
• Digital Future Coalition
• Cyberspace-Law for Non-Lawyers

Other Resources

• World Press Review
• Teaching with the News (The Choices Program, Brown University)
• Alphabetical list of new journals online (University of California, San Diego)
• Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists
  (Association of Research Libraries)
• The Open Road: e-mail e-zine reviews (T. Kuipers)
• Hargrett Library  (U. Georgia)

Last updated on June 23, 2008