Lawrence Resources
Starting Points
Primary Source Material
- AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History.
- Americn Journeys: 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.
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Offers over seven million digitized items from more than 100 historical collections.
- American Notes:
Travels in America, 1750-1920: Comprises 253 published narratives by
Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and
the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples,
places, and society.
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. Collection of legal, historical, and diplomatic documents. Covers colonial period to present.
- The Booker T. Washington Papers from the University of Illinois Press.
- Center for History and New
Media : Uses digital media and computer technology to
bring together innovative digital media with the
latest and best historical scholarship.
- Digital
Archive Scriptorium Project Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library available on the web.
- Documenting the American South a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.
- EuroDocs primary historical documents from Western Europe. Contains selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
- The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
- Harvard University Library Open Collections Program, Women Working, 1870-1930
- History Channel: Speeches Speech categories include art, culture, diplomacy, entertainment, government, science, technology, and war.
- Making of America From the holdings of Cornell University and the University of Michigan. More than four million pages from over 13,000 volumes of primary source materials.
- National Archives and Records Administration NARA. Contains digitized copies of key U.S. government documents and much more.
- Native American Documents Project - provides indexes, explanatory articles,
maps, and transcribed and digitized historical documents.
- Perry-Casteneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps depicting the growth of the United States.
- Public History Resource Center from the Public History Resource Center at the University of Maryland.
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730 to 1842 Part of GALILEO! Georgia Library Learning Online. To gain access select the "Digital Library of Georgia" link, then select the "Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730 to 1842" link.
- United States Historical Census Data Contains data files that describe the people and economy of each state and county from 1790 to 1960.
- Wisconsin Pioneer Experience. A digital collection of original sources documenting 19th-century Wisconsin history.
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