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- Founders OnlineCorrespondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States:
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 176,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects. - Adams Family PapersMassachusetts Historical Society
- James Madison Papers, 1723 to 1859Library of Congress collection
- George Washington PapersLibrary of Congress collection
- Thomas Jefferson PapersMassachusetts Historical Society
- Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606 to 1827Library of Congress collection
- Papers of Andrew Jacksonfrom University of Tennessee Knoxville
- Journal of John Wesley"Author, evangelist, preacher, organizer, theologian, and pietist John Wesley is arguably one of the most important Christian voices of the 18th century."
- Colonial and State Records of North Carolina"The series includes documents and materials from throughout the country and from several European repositories covering the earliest days of North Carolina's settlement by Europeans through the ratification of the United States Constitution."
- Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library"Browse or search hundreds of historical manuscripts, estate inventories, Virginia Gazette newspapers, and Colonial Williamsburg research reports."
- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: The American Revolution"Browse objects, biographies, and articles, to learn about the causes and consequences of a revolution that still shapes lives around the globe."
- Documenting the American South"A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs."
- Ancestry.com Library Edition This link opens in a new windowGenealogical records, census data, photos, and historical maps. International coverage with particular strength in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Also includes Jewish family history and military records. Dates of coverage vary by collection.
- FamilySearchA free resource that offers extensive searching of genealogical and vital records. Includes colonial vital records like property deeds and wills.
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- American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 to 1920"Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920."
- Anglo-American Legal TraditionThis site, from the University of Houston, features digital images of high-level documents, some of which pertain to George III's reign.
- Common-place: the journal of early American life"Common-place is a common place for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture. A bit less formal than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine."
- France in America (Library of Congress collection)"A bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century."
- John Carter Brown Library Archive of Early American ImagesOver 7,000 "images of colonial North and South America from books, manuscripts, and broadsides in the library’s collection"
- The Loyalist Collection - University of New Brunswick"The Loyalist Collection holds contemporary documents pertaining to the experiences of Americans supportive of the British cause during the American Revolution. The focus is circa 1750 to 1850, and geographically the British Atlantic world: eastern parts of both present-day Canada and the United States, Great Britain, and the West Indies."
- Papers of the War Department, 1784 to 1800"Fire destroyed the War Department office in 1800. For decades historians believed that its files, and the window they provide into the early federal government, had been lost forever. This collection unites copies of the lost files in a digital archive that reconstitutes this invaluable historical resource."
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842"Over 2,000 documents and images on the history of Native Americans in the Southeastern U.S."
- Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and FreedomPrimary Sources from Houghton Library (Harvard University)
- Territorial Papers of the United Statesavailable via HathiTrust