History

Correspondence and Other Writings of Seven Major Shapers of the United States. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. Over 185,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.

Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announce a landmark initiative to host the most comprehensive scholarly resource on Nazi persecutory sites, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 (ECG), as a new open access, fully searchable, digital publication. Hosting the ECG on the Project MUSE platform will allow users to dynamically engage with this empirically grounded prodigious resource of thousands of camps, ghettos, and other sites of persecution operated by the Nazis and their allies.

Search "World War I" or "Great War" to find photographs, letters, and other documents. NewYorkHeritage.org is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and everyone else interested the people, places and institutions of historical New York State. The site provides immediate, free access to digital collections that reflect New York State's long history.

Useful digital collections would include: War, Military as well as Presidents.

Search "Civil War". Some available digitally

Useful collections include Historic Monographs Collection and Historic Newspapers Collection

This guide is a compilation of many of the Civil War resources at the Library of Congress, along with links to selected resources outside the Library

Search "Civil War" to find photographs, letters, and other documents. NewYorkHeritage.org is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and everyone else interested the people, places and institutions of historical New York State. The site provides immediate, free access to digital collections that reflect New York State's long history.

For 150 years, researchers have been finding new insights in the records of the Civil War. They're not finished yet. You can join them in "Discovering the Civil War."

This special resources site offers a snapshot of how historians and digital humanists have helped to build a new understanding of Abraham Lincoln with a series of innovative and powerful Web-based tools.

This article outlines some of the high-quality digital collections and primary source materials available online on the history of activism in the United States.