Document Archives
- National Archives
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
- Library of Congress - Digital Collections
Plan of the town of Boston 1775
Cities and Towns
Chronicling America
Country Studies
Sandborn Maps
- Making of America
- Immigration to the U.S.: 1789-1930
- Documenting the American South
- New York Public Library Digital Library Collections
- Smithsonian Institution
- Women Working, 1800-1930
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Boston University's Gotlieb Archival Research Center
AM Explorer
AM Explorer
Search Adam Matthew's digitized arts and cultural heritage materials.
Subjects include Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Politics, Literature, Theatre, War and Conflict.
Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980
ProQuest History Vault
ProQuest History Vault
Find key archival materials with a single search.
Primary source materials including digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and more.
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- African American Studies
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- Law, Politics, and Radical Studies
- Native American Studies
- ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window ArchiveGrid includes over 5 million records describing archival materials, including information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. Over 1,000 different archival institutions are represented. ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
- Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window Eyewitness accounts of historical events, ads and genealogical records published in popular 19th century newspapers including African-American publications.
- American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals This link opens in a new window Digitized images of American magazines published between 1684 and 1912. Covers history of slavery, literature, women's and religious issues, politics, culture, the arts and foreign language journals published in the U.S. Rights for use by Boston University community supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund.
- Black Abolitionist Papers This link opens in a new window This collection searches a unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. The content includes letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays from libraries and archives in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. Supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund.
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window Comprehensive collections of primary documents released through the Freedom of Information Act. Includes many aspects of U.S. foreign policy and military policy from 1945 to the present. Overlaps with U.S. Declassified Documents but has more recent coverage.
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window Letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories; much material was unpublished. Date coverage:1840-, focusing heavily on the period from 1890 to 1920.
- Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window The Visual History Archive is a collection of audiovisual interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. The current collection includes more than 54,000 eyewitness testimonies. VHA's goal is to preserve history as told by the people who lived it and to inspire action against intolerance. The testimonies were conducted in 62 countries and 41 languages, and average a little more than two hours each in length. In the vast majority, the interviewees share their complete personal history of life before, during, and after their experience with genocide.
