American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/
Consists of collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history. Topics include: African American Civil War, Conservation Movement, Continental Congress, Farm Security Administration, Architectural History, Early Motion Pictures, Variety Stage, Woman Suffrage, the papers of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Today in History, Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present, and more.

American Memory Timeline  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/
Primary sources for seven time periods of United States history are provided at this site covering 1783-1968. Each period is subdivided into various topics and contains an overview. Included are images, letters, lyrics, interviews, and more.

The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu
This project contains a searchable database of tens of thousands of documents from U.S. presidents from 1789 to the present. It covers inaugural addresses, press briefings, signing statements, and debates. Also features data on topics such as popularity and number of public appearances, election results back to 1828, and an archive of audio and video clips.

American Treasures of the Library of Congress  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
An unprecedented permanent exhibition of the rarest, most interesting or significant items relating to America's past.

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
The project contains digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from pre-18th Century to current.

A Chronology of US Historical Documents  http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
US historical documents arranged from pre-colonial era to present. 

Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Provides learning and teaching resources from online textbook, primary sources, ethnic voices to special topics and reference materials on all periods of United States History.

Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/
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.

Eighteenth-Century Studies  http://eserver.org/18th/
Covers archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.

Harvard Open Collections http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
The Open Collections provide online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums. OCP's highly specialized “open collections” are developed through careful collaborations among Harvard's distinguished faculty, librarians, and curators. Three open collections have been launched since 2004: Women Working, 1800-1930, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, and Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics. Two additional collections are under development now: the Islamic Heritage Project, and Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age.

History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/wwwhistory/
A highly regarded gateway to web resources as well as a repository of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence for students and teachers of American history.

Lives, the Biography Resource - http://amillionlives.com/
Extensive, annotated directory of links to sites that focus on the lives of individuals or groups of people, worthwhile collections of links to other biographical resources, primary biographical source material such as images, diaries, memoirs, correspondence, interviews, oral histories, etc., and good biographical dictionaries. There are special pages featuring African Americans, Women, U.S. Civil War, Holocaust Survivors and Rescuers, and Canadians. In addition there are indexes by collections, professions, eras, regions, and criticism, as well as by individual.

Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history 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 collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

Nineteenth Century Documents Project http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
When completed this collection will include accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity. 

Project Gutenberg http://www.promo.net/pg/
The Project contains free eBooks or etexts. There are more than 10.000 eBooks in the present collection. Most of these eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.

Repositories of Primary Sources http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
This site contains links to over 3,400 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.Access is by region or by an alphabetical index of state, province, or country.

U.S. Founding Documents http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/federalist/
A collection of federalists' essays.

GENERAL PRIMARY SOURCES - WORLD

Eurodocs http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles, translations from Western Europe.

In the First Person http://www.alexanderstreet7.com/firp/
Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives.

EyeWitness to History http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
History Through the Eyes of Those who Lived it. Eyewitness accounts organized by date starting with Ancient Greece.

German Propoganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The Web site includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists.

The Great Hunger Archive, An Gorta Mor http://www.thegreathunger.org/html/main/center.htm
A joint project of the Ireland Studies Program at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut and Kerry County Library, Ireland, to provide a comprehensive coverage or listing of archival material relating to the famine in Ireland in the 1840s.

Hanover Historical Texts Project http://history.hanover.edu/project.html
A working-in-progress project covers documents from ancient Greece to the 20th Century.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
A collection of documents, maps, images, and music for Medieval studies.

Middle East Peace Process Documents http://www.mideastweb.org/history.htm
It covers Israel and Palestine, Middle East historical and peace process source documents.

Perseus Digital Library  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. Originally begun with coverage of the Archaic and Classical Greek world, has now expanded to Latin text and tools, Renaissance materials, and Papyri. Contains hundreds of texts by the major ancient authors and lexica and morphological databases and catalog entries for over 2,800 vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and sites, including over 13,000 photographs of such objects.

Slave Voyages (The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database)
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 35,000 slaving vogages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

United Nations Treaty Collection http://untreaty.un.org/English/treaty.asp
A collection of treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946.

World History Sources http://chnm.gmu.edu/whm/searchwhm.php
Reflects three approaches central to current world history scholarship: an emphasis on comparative issues rather than civilizations in isolation; a focus on contacts among different societies and the economic, social, and cultural consequences of those contacts; and an attentiveness to “global” forces that transcend individual societies or even societies in mutual contact—forces such as technology diffusion, migration, disease transmission, extension and realignments of trade routes, or missionary outreach.

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS

Chronicling America (1880-1922) http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 from the following states: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. It also allows you to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). To see a list of these papers by state go to http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/

Historical Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) http://www.calstatela.edu/library/dbs/~L8.htm
(Library subscription database, login required from off campus)
The Los Angeles Times offers completely searchable full text and full image coverage from 1881-1985. It gives quick and accurate Web access to articles, editorials, classified ads, comics, cartoons, photos, maps, and graphics. The collection provides access to every page from every available issue.

Historical New York Times (1851-2005) http://www.calstatela.edu/library/dbs/~h10.htm
(Library subscription database, login required from off campus)
The New York Times offers completely searchable full text and full image coverage from 1851-2005. It gives quick and accurate Web access to articles, editorials, classified ads, comics, cartoons, photos, maps, and graphics. The collection provides access to every page from every available issue.

ICON: International Coliation on Newspapers
http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm#IC
This page provides links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. Only those newspapers without the dollar icon are for free access.

ICON Database of International Newspapers
http://icon.crl.edu/database.php
The ICON Database of International Newspapers is a freely accessible electronic resource intended to provide reliable information on newspapers published outside of the United States. It includes bibliographic descriptions of titles as well as specific information on institutions’ holdings of the same. The database serves as a central locus for information on international newspaper collections available in North American libraries and in selected libraries outside North America, providing a tool for resource discovery, access, and collection management.

U.S. Historical Newspapers (a collection of historical newspapers from ICON Web)
http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm#US
The ICON provides a comprehensive list of U.S. newspapers available on the internet. Only those newspapers without the dollar icon are for free access.

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/
The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 274 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.

FedWorld/FLITE U.S. Supreme Court Decisions http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
Full text of Supreme Court Decisions issued between 1937 and 1975.

Foreign Governments: Constitutions, Laws and Treaties http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/forcons.html

Founders' Constitution http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
A collection of thoughts, opinions, and arguments of the Founders

Landmark Supreme Court Cases http://www.landmarkcases.org/
It covers landmark Supreme Court cases including a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching and learning of landmark Supreme Court cases.

LexisNexis 
From the Library Web's Database page, select LexisNexis. Full text opinions of all Supreme Court cases since 1790 and all state cases. In addition, all dispositions of cases that were appealed to the Supreme Court are included. (CSULA electronic database, login required).

Westlaw Campus
From the Library Web's Database page, select Westlaw Campus. Full text opinions of all Supreme Court cases since 1790 and all state cases. In addition, it provides access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information. (CSULA electronic database, login required).

ORAL HISTORY AND SPEECHES

American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
THE ONLINE SPEECH BANK is an index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and more.

Douglass--Archives of American Public Address http://douglassarchives.org/
Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University.

Historical Voices http://www.historicalvoices.org/
A fully searchable database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century.

History Channel: Speeches http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html
A collection of speeches is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century.

Link Library (of personal experience pages)  http://www.justpublications.org/linklib/index.cgi
An archive of primary source materials. Includes first-hand information as well as oral history resources and art projects based on people's experiences. 

Oral History Online! - http://www.tei-c.org/Applications/oh01.xml
These are the topics and some of the interviewees: Suffragists (Alice Paul), Disabled Persons Independence Movement (Hale Zukas); Health Care, Science, and Technology (Barbara Honeyman Heath Roll); University History Series (Arleigh Williams); University of California Black Alumni Series (Lionel Wilson); and the Earl Warren Oral History Project (Edmund G. Brown, Sr.). The searchable transcriptions are from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Talking History http://www.talkinghistory.org
A collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.

PUBLIC RECORDS AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

NARA 100 Milestone Documents http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone
A list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.

Core Documents of U.S Democracy http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html
A core group of current and historical Government publications define our democratic society.

National Archives and Records Administration http://www.nara.gov/
Find holdings by federal government organization, media, location, and topics.

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875.

VISUAL MATERIALS (Cartoons, images, movies, posters, photographs, and more)

They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II http://www.pbs.org/theydrewfire/ 
A collection of more than 12,000 pieces of artwork by combat artists during World War II.

World War II in Color http://www.ww2incolor.com/ 
A collection of photos and images of World War II in color.