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U.S. History Primary Sources
- American Labor Studies Center
- American Memory Project from the Library of Congress - thousands of documents, photos, maps, films, sound recordings, etc. from the collections of the Library of Congress, including women's suffrage, African-American pamphlets, George Washington's letter books, life histories from the WPA, American Revolution broadsides and much more.
- Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- Beyond the Bubble - This website is part of the Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources Educational Consortium. The site uses primary resources to "go beyond the bubble" by offering easy-to-use assessments that capture students' knowledge in action - rather than simply testing their recall of discrete facts. It is great for anyone who is teaching American history or working with NHD kids on U.S. topics. Additionally, the assessments are aligned with the Common Core.
- Cornell Making of America Digital Library
- Documents for the Study of American History
- Duke University-Special Collections
- Electronic Text Center
- Electronic Texts
- Famous Trials
- Historical Text Archive
- Internet Archive of Texts and Documents: The United States
- JSTOR
- Making of America
- New Deal Network
- Online Speech Bank
- Primary Sources Research Colloquium
- Scholarly Resources Microfilm
- Turning Points In American History: The American Founding and Reconstruction - an NHD resource provided by ConSource
Civil War History
African American History
Native American History
Military History
Colonial History
US Government History
Presidential History
Immigration & Genealogy
Women's History
Western US History
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