American History

Contains 2,000+ authors and 100,000+ pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs written during the Civil War.

Open access database of more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera that document the political, social, and economic history of the United States. Considered one of the nation’s great archives in the Revolutionary, early national, antebellum, and Civil War periods.

Songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera from the late nineteenth century, with video interviews with scholars and critical essays. Covers themes of race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women's suffrage from the end of the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt's presidency (1865-1901).

The Huntington Library specializes in British and American history, literature and the history of science spanning the 11th century to the present. Its Digital Library contains maps, photographs, manuscripts, rare books, prints and ephemera. Unique collections focus on southern California architecture and technology, Jack London (author), Colorado rivers, coded Civil War messages, and Mormonism.

Published and unpublished works by 400+ authors. Search by historical event or life experience. Includes digital reproduction and full-text transcription of the Black Panther newspaper, and oral histories from authors, artists, and activists.

Digitized pages and clipped articles from hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers, including news items, advertisements, and illustrations. Colorado newspaper coverage is from the mid-1860s-1890s.

Early American newspapers, published between 1690 and 1876.

Open access collection of America's historic newspaper pages, dating from 1789-1963. Or, use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Free access to digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, politics, diplomacy and government, spanning from 4000 BCE to the 21st century.

Government documents: Congressional documents, house & senate reports, hearings, committee publications, and indexing.

Comprehensive collection of resources on legal history, government documents, case studies, treaties, constitutions, case law, treatises, foreign relations, and law journals.

Historical and legal scholarship that draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions.