Research on the web

Internet Document Sourcebooks

• Modern history
• Medieval history
• Ancient history
• Women's history
• Global history
• Indian history
• East Asian history
• African history
• Islamic history
• Jewish history
• U.S. history

General documents and primary sources (U.S. and non-U.S.)

• Internet Archive - large collection of books, periodicals, and documents
• Online Archive of California - online finding aid for archives in California plus some digital documents
• Avalon project
• Cold War International History Project document library
• World War I document archive
• Project Gutenberg - large collection of books and etexts
• Directory of digitized collections - look here for all kinds of documents
• UNESCO Memory of the World
• Google books - especially the Library Project

U.S. documents and primary sources

• University of Missouri, St. Louis: Federal government documents
• U.S. literature at bartleby.com
• Library of Congress American Memory Collection
• Making of America: 19th Century Books and Journals from the University of Michigan
• Making of America: 19th Century Books and Journals from Cornell University
• Currier and Ives Cyber-Gallery
• On-line books
• National Security Archive - declassified FOIA documents on line
• Franklin D. Roosevelt library - digitized "safe files" and other documents
• Documenting the American South
• Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project
• Nineteenth century American sheet music
• Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

Non-U.S. documents and primary sources

• The British Newspaper Archive (free index, various subscriptions available)
• World history archives
• Gallica: full text French books and historical periodicals, including major daily Parisian newspapers (free)
• Taiwan documents project - in English
• Marxist texts - Marxists.org internet library and archive and the Communist Manifesto
• Historical archives of the European communities
• EuroDocs - primary historical documents from Western Europe
• Perseus Project - digital library for ancient Greece (originals and translations), but also large numbers of other documents from around the world
• Linguistic Data Consortium - creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes
• Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
• Brazilian Government Documents
• Papyrus Collection - University of Michigan
• Australian Periodicals 1840-1845
• Early English books online - digitization project for the 125,000 titles in the English Short Title Catalog, which includes English language texts from 1475-1700
• Исторические источники  - в виртуальной библиотеке Исторического факультета МГУ
• XPOHOC: всемирная история в интернете

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

• Avalon: main page
  
  

  Major document collections:

• African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History
• The American Constitution - A Documentary Record
  
• American Diplomacy : Bilateral Treaties 1778 - 1999
  
• American Diplomacy : Multilateral Treaties 1864 - 1999
  
• American History : A Chronology 1492-Present
  
• American Revolution - A Documentary Record
  
• Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Documents
• Annual Messages of the Presidents
  
• Argentine - American Diplomacy
  
• Austrian - American Diplomacy
  
• The Barbary Treaties 1816-1836
  
• Belgian-American Diplomacy
  
• Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England : 1765-1769
  
• Bolivian-American Diplomacy
  
• Brazilian-American Diplomacy 1829 -
  
• British-American Diplomacy 1782 -
  
• Chilean-American Diplomacy 1832 -
  
• Chinese-American Diplomacy
  
• The Cold War
• Cold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the United States
  
• Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
  
• Confederate States of America : Papers
  
• Congressional Resolutions
• Cuban-American Diplomacy
  
• Diplomatic Document Collections
  
• Economic and Legal Treatises
  
• The Federalist papers
  
• Foreign Relations of the United States
  
• Franco-American Diplomacy
  
• German-American Diplomacy
  
• History Treatises
  
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
  
• Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
  
• The Inter-American System : Agreements, Conventions and Other Documents
  
• International Agreements and Diplomatic Documents
  
• International Military Tribunal for Germany
  
• The Jefferson Papers
• Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 : Selected Documents
  
• Laws of War : Hague and Geneva Conventions
  
• Madison's Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
  
• Mexican-American Diplomacy
  
• The Middle East 1916-2003 : A Documentary Record
  
• Native Americans : Treaties with the United States
  
• Nazi - Soviet Relations 1939-1941
  
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
  
• Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
  
• Peace Conference at the Hague 1899 : Correspondence, Instructions and Reports
  
• Presidential Papers
  
• Project DIANA - An Online Human Rights Archive
  
• The Quasi War with France 1791-1800
  
• September 11, 2001 : Attack on America - A Collection of Documents
  
• Slavery : Statutes and Treaties
  
• Soviet-American Diplomacy
  
• Spanish-American Diplomacy
• Terrorism - A Document Collection
  
• Texas - From Independence to Annexation 1836-1846
  
• Treaties Between The United States and Native Americans
  
• United Nations - Documents
  
• The United States and the Soviet Union - The Airplane Incidents 1950-1960
  
• The United States, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Area 1950 -1999
  
• United States Statutes
• United States Statutes Concerning Native Americans
  
• United States Statutes Concerning Slavery
  
• Western European Security and Co-operation; 1948 -
  
• World War II - Documents; 1940-1945

   

 

Last updated: 12/01/2011