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American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

From the Library of Congress.

Archiving Early America - Historic Documents from 18th Century America

Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California. University of California at Berkeley.

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Transcontinental Railroad

Photographs, engravings, maps, and documents illustrating the history of the first transcontinental railroad.

Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

David Library of the American Revolution

Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.

Huntington Library

San Marino, California.

Lest We Forget

Documents with focus on the history and culture of African-Americans.

Library Guide to U.S. History Resources

University of Tennessee Libraries.

Life History Manuscripts From the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project 1936

McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

National Museum of American History

From the Smithsonian.

Presidential Libraries

From the National Archives and Records Administration.

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum

Waco, Texas.

The Historical Text Archive (HTA)

The HTA publishes articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet.

The Indian and Colonial Research Center, Inc.

Connecticut. Non-profit resource center dedicated to the study of Native American and Colonial American history and genealogy.

The National Portrait Gallery

From the Smithsonian, includes an online exhibition of the Portraits of the Presidents.

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Fremont, Ohio.

Virginia Colonial Records Project

Online searchable index to nearly 15,000 reports that survey and describe documents relating to colonial Virginia history that are housed in repositories in Great Britain and other European countries. The survey report images are available online, and there are references to microfilm reels for the original documents.

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