American History

Maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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List of documents, sound recordings, images, prints, maps, and sheet music documenting the American experience.

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Primary sources in world history from 4,000 BCE to present. From Yale Law School.

Newspaper pages from 1880-1910 from select states, including Florida. From Library of Congress.gov.

Text of 70 of the world's most significant speeches.

Famous speeches made by influential leaders of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Full text of all known existing books and pamphlets printed in America from 1639-1819. Use the QUICK BROWSE box to search by Author, Title or Subject.

Searchable list of slave narratives from Univ of NC-Chapel Hill.

2,300 first-person accounts of slavery with some photographs of former slaves. From Library of Congress.gov.

World War II government publications distributed during the war from Southern Methodist Univ.

Primary and Secondary Sources from the Library of Congress

From Gale Cenage Research.

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Over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials, including documents, photographs, and more. From Texas Tech Univ.