U.S. History

"The Canadiana Collections contain content created over five centuries that tell an incomplete, oftentimes distorted and, sometimes harmful, story of Canada."
Open Access.

Interface in English and French (and other major, European languages). Majority of the content in French.
France's fantastic digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Digitized periodicals, images, recordings, and more. Covers two millenia with particular strength from 1500 to the present.
Open Access.

Digitized collections from the Library of Congress, includes manuscripts, books, photos, maps, audio recordings, and more.

Search over 16 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than 5.1 million online images, audio & videos and blog posts.

Primary source digital library of American social history from antebellum period through reconstruction. Arranged into collections at Cornell and the University of Michigan.

Texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. From UNC.

Mostly historical US datasets, some. European, including "U.S. Customs House Data, 1854-59" and "Cole monthly commodity prices, 1700-1861" and others.

Broadsides are single-sheet publications, often issued as ephemera or announcements. The Harris Broadsides Collection is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of American life, and includes poetry of every description: 18th and 19th century ballads, verse describing newsworthy events, poetic effusions of sentimentality and patriotism, comic verse, and much more. When completed, this digital project will include over 20,000 titles.

Thousands of maps from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Heavy emphasis on Europe but includes excellent global coverage (including 3d globes).

More than 37,000 maps available through the US Library of Congress with collection focus between 1600 and the present.

Hosted by the University of Texas Libraries, this collection includes global and regional maps across multiple centuries.

This collection contains images of maps from the Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information and Data Services' map collection. 1317 images/descriptions are openly available with excellent metadata.

The collection contains over 145,000 items. The online version contains 4,695 items (equaling about 51,500 images), consists of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939.

The papers of nurse, educator, philanthropist, and lecturer Clara Barton (1821-1912) consist of 62,000 items (81,608 images), most of which were digitized from 123 reels of previously produced microfilm.

TEI encoded critical editions of Twain's letters and major works. The ultimate aim is to encode & make available the entire corpus of Twain's work.

Family papers and sugar plantation records (1709-1835) of the Hall family of England and Jamaica. The collection contains primary source material on 18th and early 19th century Jamaican plantation economy and culture. Creation Date: 1709-1892.

68 motion pictures, produced between 1898 and 1901, of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role.

The papers of nurse, educator, philanthropist, and lecturer Clara Barton (1821-1912) consist of 62,000 items (81,608 images). Includes Letterbooks, 1876-1911 covering the Spanish-American war.

This electronic presentation features selected materials from the physical American Colony in Jerusalem Collection. The full collection in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress represents well over 16,600 items stemming from the history of the American Colony, a non-denominational utopian Christian community founded by a small group of American expatriates in Ottoman Palestine in 1881.