The American founding era collection contains the annotated, full-text searchable set of the personal papers and manuscripts of the founders of the American Republic. The collection includes the papers of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Dolley Madison, James Madison, John Marshall, Andrew Jackson, Charles Pinckney, the People of the Founding Era collection, and the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America.

The documentary history of the ratification of the constitution traces the American constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. The digital edition allows users to search the contents by date, title, author, recipient, or state affiliation, and preserves the annotations of the print edition. Part of American Found Era database, where it can also be accessed.

America's Historical Newspapers is a searchable and browsable collection of American newspapers published from 1690 to the present. It offers searchable digital facsimiles of titles from every U.S. state and Puerto Rico. It features eyewitness reporting, news pieces, editorials, letters, advertisements, and obituaries. Includes the collection American Ethnic Newspapers, including African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980; and Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971.

Freely available web resource from the Massachusetts Historical Society

The American founding era collection contains the annotated, full-text searchable set of the personal papers and manuscripts of the founders of the American Republic. The collection includes the papers of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Dolley Madison, James Madison, John Marshall, Andrew Jackson, Charles Pinckney, and the People of the Founding Era collection.

American Indian histories and cultures documents interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact up to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection.

Colonial America is a collection of chiefly manuscript material from the Colonial Office files at the National Archives in London. The collection focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world. It covers the period 1606 to 1822.

A freely available web version of American Founding Era (above)

Indigenous peoples, North America traces the history of Native Peoples in North America from colonial relations in the 1600s to twentieth-century issues such as civil rights. Includes manuscript collections, rare books and monographs, newspapers, periodicals, census records, legal documents, maps, drawings and sketches, oral histories, photos, and videos.

Manuscript women's letters and diaries features unpublished letters and diaries of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century. The women wrote from the many places throughout the U.S. in which they lived, traveled, worked, studied, and observed the lives and historical events around them.

Access via the ProQuest History Vault. Featuring records of John Hancock, Paul Revere, Artemas Ward, and other collections from the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early National period

Slavery, Abolition and Social justice features documents and collections that treat slavery, its legacy and continued existence, and social justice issues related to its legacy. Coverage is from 1490 to 2008, and materials include original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and images.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.

America's historical imprints is a collection of searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera related to American history. The collection is searchable by genre, subject, author, history of printing, place of publication, and language. Includes "Early American Imprints," or what's popularly known as "Evans" (for Charles Evans, whose American Bibliography is the basis of the collection). Also includes several other imprint collections.

Contains books, maps, artwork, and other primary source materials from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. It is divided into two modules: Module 1 Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859; and Module 2 Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945.

This pamphlet collection includes content written by figures of the founding era of the United States. These papers also include British Parliamentary debates about how much independence to give to the United States. Other items cover the trials of Americans who were tried for treason, in varying levels of detail. Religion also played a leading role as many sermons took sides in the conflict. Pamphlets about Quebec explore the debate over its government and how this debate affected pre-war relations between Britain and America. The pamphlets are arranged by year, then alphabetically by author or by title when the author is not known.

Searchable works by Black authors from the Americas, Europe and Africa. Major subject areas include Literature, Ethnic History, Colonialism, Gender Studies, Slavery, and Diaspora Studies. Includes personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, and musical compositions.

Eighteenth century collections online includes titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Material consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; and general reference.

Based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana contains works about the Americas published worldwide from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and military actions in the western hemisphere.

American periodicals contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.

America's Historical Newspapers is a searchable and browsable collection of American newspapers published from 1690 to the present. It offers searchable digital facsimiles of titles from every U.S. state and Puerto Rico. It features eyewitness reporting, news pieces, editorials, letters, advertisements, and obituaries. Includes the collection American Ethnic Newspapers, including African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980; and Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971.

British Library newspapers contains full text digitized versions of 19th Century British newspapers held by the the British Library. Includes London national dailies and weeklies, English regional dailies and weeklies, Home Countries newspapers (Scottish national, Scottish regional, Welsh, Northern Irish), and special-interest papers. The interface allows for basic and advanced searches, as well as browsing by title, publication date, place of publication, publication frequency, and language. Accompanied by essays providing historical context.

Searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th cent

17th-18th century Burney collection newspapers grants full-text access to the British Library's collection of newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). Included are Parliamentary papers, the London daily news, English humor of the 1600s, and other early English news media.

Features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, United Kingdom. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737 have been digitized. This collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into 17th and 18th century England.

U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.

Key, freely available resource from the Library Congress

Includes digital archives of state and federal laws

Full text, image-based searchable database of primary and secondary legal publications. Collections include: U.S. federal, state, and territories government documents; case reporters, legal periodicals and treatises; foreign government, multi-jurisdictional, and international law documents; canon law, Native American law, and legal philosophy.

Database of texts from the bound, sequentially numbered Congressional documents and reports from the U.S. House and Senate. Provides access to primary source material on all aspects of American history, including committee reports related to bills and other matters, presidential communications to Congress, treaty materials, certain executive department publications, and certain non-governmental publications.