SoALS: History

The American Memory project at the Library of Congress.

Documents from 450 BCE to the 21st century.

Access to many Boston College rare and unique collections in digitized form.

Explore topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators.

A collection of web site links to primary sources.

Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark is an electronic archive of over 150 letters, 3 journals, 25 statutes and treaties, a bibliography of Jefferson’s geography books, 22 map images, and a geo-rectified cartographic database of 8 interactive maps. This collection reveals the evolution of Jefferson’s thoughts on the west as he and others made plans for the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-1806.

Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. This digital repository of autobiographical testimonies and biographical data establishes where people came from, why they were enslaved, whether or not they freed themselves, and what happened to them.

The data and terminology presented in the Historical Census Browser are drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.

1,000 primary documents, images, and audio interviews

A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

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.

The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War. Here you may explore thousands of original documents that allow you to see what life was like during the Civil War for the men and women of Augusta and Franklin.

Brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. Search and scan through the united collection of millions of items, including by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, subject, and partner.

Covers up to the end of the Roman Empire.

A good collection of primary sources for medieval history. The site is not well maintained, and off-site links likely do not work. However, sources hosted by Fordham still work. Good place for full texts.

Continuation of previous two sourcebooks, from 1500 to today.

Digital collection of medieval manuscripts from the Free Library of Philidelpha.

A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar

The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. We give detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archives.

These links connect to British primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.

These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.

European History Primary Sources (EHPS), an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to digitised primary sources on the history of Europe. The websites listed on EHPS are not only meta-sources but also include invented archives and born digital sources.