HIST 497: Research Methods in History: History Websites

Offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.

Links to historical resources.

Digitized letters and diaries from both Union and Confederate soldiers, homefront letters, memoirs, and contemporary research files.

By Louisa May Alcott.

Photographs, slides, glass negatives, oral histories, manuscripts and letters, Illinois government documents, federal government documents, postcards, posters, videos, newspapers, maps, and more.

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.

Transcribed debates over the secession of Virginia.

From the Virginia Military Institute.

A collection of original military records.

A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.

Thousands of primary source documents.

The mission of HathiTrust is to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.

Selected Library of Congress Resources for Georgia

Selected Library of Congress Resources for Tennessee

Includes links to several primary source databases for Tennessee.