Primary Sources

The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.

Documents for the study of American history.

Works by notable American authors, politicians, and reformers.

Artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. Created to teach that the everyday objects in society have historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era in which they were produced.

A massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America.

Primary sources (including court records) relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692.

Court records, colony laws, 17th century journals, memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, biographical profiles.

Primary and secondary sources on the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.

Publications of nineteenh century American geographer Henry Schoolcraft, many of which document his encounters with Native Americans in the United States.

Searchable set of 140+ titles, representing grammar, spelling, reading, arithmetic, geography, history, civics, physiology, penmanship, and letter-writing.

Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Letters, diaries, newspaper articles, speeches and chruch records from two communities: Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

Diaries, letters, other documents, prints and photographs.

This collection reviews the cause, conduct and consequences of the Civil War and is comprised of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880.

Contains digitized texts of over 183,000 titles published during the 18th Century.

Texts, images, & audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Includes 10 thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews & songs.

Documents the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Includes narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books to 1920.

Photos, letters, regional censuses, oral histories, and town map for Charlottesville, Virginia.

Digitized versions of many of his works, images, letters, and other documents.

Primary sources available include correspondence and photographs from the papers of Theodore Dreiser, American novelist.