General

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  Browse or search public domain documents from American and English literature, including Western philosophy.

• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas)
  Documents from the fifteenth century to the present, chronologically arranged.

• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)
  Search or browse collections on a wide variety of subjects and in a wide variety of media.

• Commager, Henry Steele and Milton Cantor, eds. Documents of American History. 2 vols. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988.
  HUNT REF-1 E173 .D59 1988

• Defining Gender: 1450-1910 (Carnegie Mellon uses only)
  Search and display such primary sources as images, ephemera, pamphlets, college records and exam papers, books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account books, education practice and pedagogy, government papers, illustrated writings on anatomy, midwifery, art and fashion, manuscripts, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, travel writing, conduct, and advice literature. Five major themes are covered: Conduct and Politness, Domesticity and Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and the Body.

• Digital Library of Georgia (University System of Georgia)
  Digital full text collections including diaries, photographs, maps, government documents, newspapers, books, etc. relating to the history and culture of state of Georgia.

• Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1534-1850.
  This database documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The database contains published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters, amounting to 100,000 pages of text with associated maps and images.

• Empire Online (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  15^th-20^th Centuries
  Provides full text access to rare primary sources that covers 5 aspects of the colonial experience. It has a thematic layout spanning Cultural Contracts, Literature of the Empire, Religion, Race, Class, and Imperialism. Materials cover Africa, North and South America, the Caribbean, India, Asia, the Middle East, Australasia and the Islands of Oceania. Materials included are: exploration and journals logs to travel logs, diaries, official government papers, missionary papers, maps, photographs, letter books and correspondence, etc.

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe (Brigham Young University)
  Geographically and chronologically arranged.

• Hanover Historical Texts Project (History Department, Hanover College)
  Public domain texts, chronologically arranged by region.

• History and Historiography (The EServer, Department of Technical Communication, University of Washington)
  Documents and articles from all periods in an alphabetical list.

• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Bartleby.com)

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Full Text Sources (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
  Arranged by topic.

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Full Text Sources (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
  Arranged by topic.

• Levy, Peter B., ed. 100 Key Documents in American Democracy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  HUNT REF-1 E173 .A15 1994

• Perdita Manuscripts (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  ca. 16^th-17^th Centuries
  Search and display manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Culled from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA, they range in materials from account books, diaries, autobiographies, notebooks, medical writings, travel writing, speeches, etc.

• Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1490-2007
  Search and browse the full text of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps. There is extensive coverage of topics such as the African Coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); Spiritualism and Religion; Resistance and Revolts; the Underground Railroad; the Abolition Movement; Legislation; Education; the Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today. The database covers all geographic areas.

• Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  This full text database brings together, on a single cross-searchable platform, the entire family of letter and diary databases from Alexander Street Press:
  North American Women's Letters and Diaries
  British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
  North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
  The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
  Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
  Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society.

• Texts (The American Revolution-an .HTML Project)
  Chronologically arranged.

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August 2009 -- http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/sc24/History/primary.html
Sue Collins, Senior Librarian, sc24@andrew.cmu.edu