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American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

From the Library of Congress.

Archiving Early America - Historic Documents from 18th Century America

Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Transcontinental Railroad

Photographs, engravings, maps, and documents illustrating the history of the first transcontinental railroad.

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

David Library of the American Revolution

The David Library of the American Revolution is a specialized research library dedicated to the study of American history circa 1750 to 1800. Located in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.

Early Americas Digital Archive

From the University of Maryland Libraries, a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New York Historical Society, New York City, New York, contains more than 60,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times.

Huntington Library

San Marino, California.

Indian & Colonial Research Center

Connecticut. Non-profit resource center dedicated to the study of Native American and Colonial American history and genealogy.

Library Guide to U.S. History Resources

University of Tennessee Libraries.

McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

National Museum of American History Updated

From the Smithsonian.

Presidential Libraries

From the National Archives and Records Administration.

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum

Waco, Texas.

The Historical Text Archive (HTA)

The HTA publishes articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet.

The National Portrait Gallery

From the Smithsonian, includes an online exhibition of the Portraits of the Presidents.

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Fremont, Ohio.

Virginia Colonial Records Project

Online searchable index to nearly 15,000 reports that survey and describe documents relating to colonial Virginia history that are housed in repositories in Great Britain and other European countries. The survey report images are available online, and there are references to microfilm reels for the original documents.