United States History

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. This website is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program and will eventually contain content from all U.S. states and territories.

ndependent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Comprises "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."

News, documentaries, and television and radio programs about American communities , education, environment issues, music,and art from the past 60 years.

"Contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. More than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society."

Digitized collections from the Library of Congress.

The CIA has established this site to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents.

Digital archives, collections, images, and libraries, from around the United States.

Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 119,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.

Comprises a full text collection of Homeland Security related documents, covering policy and strategy for national security.

Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

Not all speeches have accompanying videos. Site supported by advertising, and maintained by a speech communication professor.

Guides to topics from the United States National Archives.

Most of the Presidential Libraries have some digitized content available.