Library Guides: American Studies: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

AMDOCS
Documents for the study of American history from early explorers to modern times
Library of Congress American History Collection
Massive collection of primary sources and digital objects that cover multiple facets of American History, from the Library of Congress
American Presidency Project
Our archives contain 90,489 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
Avalon Project
Documents in law, history, and diplomacy
Documenting the American South
Election Cartoons from 1860-1912
From Harper's Weekly
Historical Census Browser
Census information from 1790-1960
History and Politics Out Loud
A searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics.
Making of America
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
National Security Archive
New Deal Network
Primary documents and photographs
Presidential Libraries
Suffragists Oral History PRoject
The Thomas Edison Papers
Western Photography Collection