History and the Classics: Primary Sources: 1900-Present

Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

A sample of a collection of over 2300 interviews of former slaves conducted between 1936 and 1938 by the Works Progress Administration. Maintained by the American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

A collection of fully search-able historical newspapers from the Library of Congress.

Digital projects of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, hosts numerous tools for researching African-American history, the African Diaspora, and African history.

A digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Links to Western European historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.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

Digitized primary source documents from the National Library of France.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

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

Digital collection of primary documents, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and photos, from the Library of Congress.
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

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.

FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.

This digital collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, the collection includes:
over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections more than 7,800 photographs By incorporating diaries, biographies, and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants. The collection also includes contextual information on voluntary immigration and quantitative data.

FRANKLIN connects you to 350,000 pages of archival documents, 2,000 historical photographs, and hundreds of archival finding aids and collection descriptions. Now, many of the most important historic materials of the twentieth century -- primary source documentation of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s experiences leading the nation through the Great Depression and World War II -- are online for anyone to access.

The Vietnam Center and Archive collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War, and supports and encourages research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam Experience.

The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced by Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic

From the US Holocaust Museum

The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.

This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). The archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.

A Mississippi site which includes transcripts of oral history interviews, a civil rights timeline, and bibliography.

An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.

A collection of over 50,000 ebooks, many from the 19th and early 20th century.

Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified historical materials from archives around the world—much of it in translation and including diplomatic cables, high level correspondence, meeting minutes and more.