Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955

Television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980

ArchiveGrid is a collection of nearly two million archival material DESCRIPTIONS and is primarily focused on archival material descriptions for institutions in the United States.

Feeding America is an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes 76 cookbooks from the MSU Libraries' collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions.

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books with 19th century imprints

Library of Congress.The site is "arranged by type of work and includes autobiographies, biographies, children’s books, novels, poetry, speeches and more".

From the Library of Congress:A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation comprises a variety of primary source documents from the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the first forty-three Congresses. Includes the Congressional Globe

"The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most broadsides are one page in length; others range from 1 to 28 pages. A number of these items contain manuscript annotations not recorded elsewhere that offer insight into the delicate process of creating consensus. In many cases, multiple copies bearing manuscript annotations are available to compare and contrast. "

Extensive site with bibliographies, links to other sites and reviews of books, and source documents. Some documents are from newspapers of the time. Special emphasis on the Amistad Case. Links are to be major online document collections

"Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs. "

" Features approximately 650,000 digitized pages and nearly 1,500 images images, including: 3,000 pages of manuscripts and personal papers, and 7,000 pages of institutional records;more than 3,100 individually cataloged books, magazines, and trade catalogs; and well over 1,400 photographs. Source material is drawn from holdings of the Harvard Libraries."

The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files. Audio files and link to website in the Second Life 3D environment.

Includes correspondence between John and Abagail Adams, Diary of John Adams and the Autobiography of John Adams

The James Madison Papers, 1723 - 1836

55,000 documents from 1774-1880

The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution features more than 150 recently gifted important books, pamphlets and prints representing the major themes of Lapidus' collecting: the intellectual origins of the American Revolution; the Revolution itself; the early years of the republic; the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world; and the effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States.

Diary of an early 19th c midwife

This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies

e texts from 1492 to 1820

1692

'Accompanying the original diary images and their searchable transcripts are 43 contemporary maps; seven trail guides; 82 photographs, watercolors and art sketches; four essays on the Mormon and California trails, maps and trail guides."

Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States:
From the National Archives
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 135,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.

"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. "

Digital archives of diaries, letters, newspapers, etc. that document two communities, one in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the Civil War.Information and data sets, ranges from most recent census to the historical decennial census conducted throughout the decades, starting with 1790

The Library of Congress collection consists of 62 books and pamphlets, 140 Federal statutes and Congressional resolutions, 34 additional legislative documents, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and the Congressional Record, 360 Presidential proclamations, 170 prints and photographs, 2 historic manuscripts, and 2 motion pictures.

A selection of 100 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s. Duke University

"The CRDL promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement trough its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive delivering 30 hours of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement drawing on holdings from more than 75 libraries and allied organizations from across the nation, and 3) instructional materials to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process."

1942-1964

Created by LOC, has oral history interviews during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s