electronic texts & documents
| Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy | Yale Law School. Full text of documents in law, history and diplomacy from 3000 BCE to the present. |
| The Historical Text Archive | Site with links to historical texts of many countries and subjects. |
| History E-Book Project | >1200 full text history books in 24 subject categories |
| Internet History Sourcebooks | Paul Halsall, University of North Florida. Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. The three primary historical sourcebooks cover Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History. Additional historical sourcebooks, organized by theme, include African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Women's, Gay/Lesbian, Global History, and the History of Science. In addition to full-text historical documents, one can find links to secondary articles, reviews, discussions, and more Web sites. |
| World War I Document Archive | Brigham Young University. Conventions, treaties, official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences, and a biographical dictionary. |
| EUROPE | |
| English Renaissance in Context | University of Pennsylvania. Texts searchable and arranged by author and title. Also includes tutorials. |
| EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe | Brigham Young University. Arranged by country and chronologically. |
| Nazi and East German Propaganda Guide Archive | Calvin College. Texts of speeches, visual material such as posters and cartoons, excerpts from other writings, and other Web links are organized into subject areas. Searchable. |
| LIBRO: the library of Iberian resources online | University of Central Arkansas/ American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain. Full text of books concerning Iberia, 500-1500. |
| Proceedings of the Western Society for French History | University of Michigan. Access full text of volumes 31(2003) - |
| Voices of the Holocaust | Illinois Institute of Technology. Interviews conducted in 1946 in displaced persons camps around Europe and transcribed into English. "... tales of horror, survival, and liberation of seventy victims of Nazi atrocities and oppression during World War II. The interviewees include farmers, lawyers, artists, carpenters and others from all economic levels, and covering many religions, nationalities, and languages from across Europe." |
| MIDDLE EAST | |
| Middle East Historical and Peace Process Documents | Documents, 1915-present, with accompanying introductory and background information, bibliography, maps, etc. |
| UNITED STATES | |
| American Memory Project | Library of Congress. Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Millions of items arranged in browsable subject categories.
|
| Autry Nationa Center | Documents related to women and gender and which highlight the impact of diverse women’s experiences on the history of the American West |
| The Avalon Project | Yale Law School. Full text of documents relevant to law, diplomacy, politics, economics, and history, dating from ancient times to 1988. Major collections include British-American Diplomacy, 1782 -, Confederate States of America, Economic and Legal Treatises, The Federalist Papers, Franco-American Diplomacy, The Jefferson Papers, Laws of War: Hague Conventions, Madison's Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, World War II - Documents 1940-1945. |
| Black Panther Party | University of California Berkeley. Timeline and recordings of radio broadcasts. |
| Civil Rights in Mississippi | University of Southern Mississippi. Images, oral histories, manuscripts, and audio files. |
| Civil War Years, 1860-1866 | Digitized text of the New York Times searchable by date or browsable by the topics of battles, military, politics, relations among the states, and social issues. |
| The Crisis of the Union | University of Pennsylvania. Pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880. |
| Documenting the American South | University of North Carolina. Slave narratives and first person narratives of the North American South. |
| Documents for the Study of American History | University of Kansas. Links to individual documents arranged chronologically. |
| Douglass: Archives of American Public Addresses | Northwestern U. Transcripts of famous speeches. |
| Dred Scott Case | Washington University. Digital images and transcriptions of 85 original documents are available, as well as a chronology. |
| Duke University Digitized Documents | Collections concerning women's history, slavery, elections, etc. |
| Early Americas Digital Archive | University of Maryland. Electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820 |
| Footnote | Search for many documents, some available for free, including Continental Congress papers, government UFO reports, Pennsylvania historical documents, George Washington correspondence, U.S. milestone documents. |
| Free Speech Movement | University of California Berkeley. Journals, newsletters, oral histories, speeches, reports, leaflets, letters, books, and audio and visual files. |
| Gettysburg Address | Library of Congress. Includes drafts of the address, transcripts of the speech in 28 languages, and photographs. |
| Historical Text Archive | Don Mabry. Original material, links to other sites, electronic reprints of books and is organized by geography/nations and topics. |
| Historical Voices | Michigan State University, et al. Audio files of Studs Terkel interviews, court cases, |
| History and Politics Out Loud | National Endowment for the Humanities/Michigan State University. Searchable archive of over 100 recordings by about twenty men, including speeches of Lyndon B. Johnson to the Warren Commission, John F. Kennedy about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nixon/Watergate affair tapes, and Bill Clinton's early denials of an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Introductions to the recordings give historical context and many also have transcripts. Browsable by name, date, or title. |
| Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Essays and exhibits taken from materials in the Eugenics Records Office, which was active from 1910 to 1940, this site examines social, political, and ethical issues raised by the ideology of eugenics. |
| Manuscripts and Archives Digital Image Database | Yale University. Photographs, posters, drawings, text documents, and other images taken from the research collections of Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. |
| Montana Histories | Progressive Men of Montana (1901) 1886 pages, containing over 2500 biographies of most people who were prominent in Montana history between the 1850's and 1900, nearly 200 are illustrated with portraits. History of Montana, 1739-1885 (1885) 1,367 pages, topics such as the exploration and occupation of Montana, Indian history, wars, trading and military posts, mining, newspapers, churches, and societies. The book includes treatments of 13 Montana counties as well as personal "reminisciences" from several notable Montanans, and over 500 illustrations of people, buildings, farms, ranches, and natural features. |
| State Digital Resources | Library of Congress. Historic documents and images arranged by state. |
| Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive | University of Virginia. >1,700 letters, manuscripts, and public papers, 1,750 manuscript documents related to the construction of the University of Virginia, biography, quotations, links. |
| Thomas Jefferson Papers | Library of Congress. 83,000 images of correspondence, commonplace books, account books, and manuscript volumes concerning the history of Jefferson's thoughts on politics, slavery, religion, and other subjects; his decades-long political partnership with James Madison; and his friendships with John and Abigail Adams, William Short, and others. |