ad Access
Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.
American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project is a comprehensive online resource on the U.S. presidency with more than 85,000 documents to date, covering all U.S. presidencies.
Foreign Relations of the United States (State Dept)
This series "presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.” Use the link to “Search within volumes” or browse by volumes, which have time period and geographic focus. Covers 1945-1976. Includes agency reports, cables, memos, and declassified documents.
Founders Online
"Read and search through thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic."
Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
"Transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their experiences, motivations, critiques, personal analyses, and private thoughts. These elements are crucial to understanding the full story of how a structure of stable relationships that maintained world peace and protected U.S. interests and values was built. The interviews in the collection are mostly with Foreign Service Officers but there also are some with political appointees and other officials."
Historic Pittsburgh
A digital collection covering the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area. Includes materials from the University of Pittsburgh, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
National Security Archive
An independent, non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Newspaper Archives
Chronicling America
Searchable digitized copies of historical newspapers from throughout the United States.
Google News Archive
Search or browse the full-text of 100's of newspapers from around the world. Use the "Search Archive" option.
Adam Matthew Digital Collection
This link opens in a new windowA notable collection of unique primary sources from libraries and archives all over the world, this database is comprised of millions of primary sources covering content from the 15th to the 21st centuries in the social sciences and humanities. Sources include letters, diaries, journals, photographs, posters, videos, t.v. programs, and more.
Archive.org
"Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."
Digital Public Library of America
DPLA provides free, online access to digitized material from America’s libraries, archives, and museums. It covers a wide range of topics, including the written word, works of art and culture, America’s heritage, and science.
To find historical primary sources, limit search to "Full View Only" and use "Publication Date" limit. Many, but not all, sources published prior to 1923 are available in full-text.
Smithsonian Institution Digital Collections
Search over 6.4 million records with 536,000 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library Project aims to make available on the internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The World Digital Library is a collaborative project of the U.S. Library of Congress, UNESCO, and partners, including private -sector support, throughout the world.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
This link opens in a new windowThis resource from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) provides full-image views of historic periodicals from 1684 to 1912 in five collections, covering the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Note that coverage past the 1880s is rather limited.
Ebony Magazine Archive
This link opens in a new windowOne of the key Afro-American magazines of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more. Their editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. The Ebony Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in November 1945 to June 2014.
Forbes Archive
This link opens in a new windowContains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of Forbes, beginning with its first issue in 1917 and ending in December 2000.
Life Magazine Archive
This link opens in a new windowCover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1936 of the American variety magazine Life, published by Time Inc.
Time Magazine Archive
This link opens in a new windowConsists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1923 of the American popular magazine Time, published by Time Inc.