Books
- The Making of America ProjectThe Making of America Project: A joint undertaking of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, MoA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, currently containing approximately 10,000 books and 150,000 journal articles with 19th Century imprints. Also available via Cornell University Library.
- The 19th Century IndexBooks, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
Newspapers
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 This link opens in a new windowEarly American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690 - 1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758 - 1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829 - 1922).
Periodicals
- The Making of America ProjectThe Making of America Project: A joint undertaking of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, MoA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, currently containing approximately 10,000 books and 150,000 journal articles with 19th Century imprints. Also available via Cornell University Library.
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals:
- American Periodical Series
- British Periodicals
- Periodicals Index Online
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
- Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
Other Primary Sources
- Civil War: Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowApproximately 100,000 pages from published memoirs, letters and diaries, drawn from more than 500 sources, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Includes 1000-item bibliography and 1000 biographies.
- Documenting the American SouthOver 1,000 books and manuscripts on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment This link opens in a new window100,000 pages of accounts describing exploration of North America or interaction between various cultural groups, limited to events taking place between 1534 and 1860.
- The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-182015,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowMore than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, dating from colonial times to 1950.
