History and the Classics: Primary Sources: 1500-1800

Digital collection of primary documents, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and photos, from the Library of Congress.

An Amherst University project which hosts many antislavery pamphlets, political tracts, and books published between 1725 and 1911.

Documents in law, history and diplomacy for the 18th through 21st centuries.

Archival database with materials mostly relating to the economic and cultural exchange between China and the United States.

Fully digitized manuscripts held by the British Library going back to 0 CE.

A web portal which links to quality websites containing primary resources on the European Renaissance and Early Modern Period

Links to Western European historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

more than 100,000 text-searchable documents produced by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.

A large collection of primary sources on the military and political aspects of the American Revolutionary War.

Historical Statistics on a range of topics and locations. An essential source for statistical data before 1975.

A project of the University of Texas at Austin, contains digitized versions of more than 200 significant medieval manuscripts. Most are text-searchable.

Information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans to the Americas from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

Significant primary materials that represent the culture of countries around the world. Sponsored by UNESCO and the Library of Congress.

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database:
The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: 1789-1929
The Public Papers of the Presidents: since 1929
The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: 1977-2009
The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents: post-2009
Among other documents, our archives contain data related to Midterm Elections, U.S. Party Platforms (from 1840), Statements of Administration Policy, White House Press Briefing Transcripts, Presidential Debate transcripts.

Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 470,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America.