Extensive online collection of papers, speeches (audio and video), and documents relating to United States presidential elections and presidents.

These documents are collected from various federal web sites including the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Many pages include not only the full text of these important documents, but facsimile copies so users may experience the feel of the original material.

The History Matters Archive contains tens of thousands of pages of scanned reports, transcripts, and other documents, dozens of hours of audio, and a variety of photographic materials. It includes both old and new from reports published in the 1960s to formerly-secret records declassified as recently as the 2000. The goal of this web site is to serve as a repository and focal point for education and research on the subject of the JFK assassination and related topics in Cold War history.

In the First Person is a landmark primary source index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals, the database indexes first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes, those that are publicly available on the Web, and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Users can search by keyword, as well as within collections, and can browse by subject, collection, documents, and historical events.

The American Memory digitizes the distinctive, historical Americana materials from the Library's (and other institutions') collections to make them freely available online. These materials include photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. The collectoin is comprised of over nine million artifacts, which can be searched for or browsed by collection/topic. Topics range from African American History, to Literature, to War/Military.

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.

Provides access to over 363,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage poster, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

This site provides a complete database of all State of the Union Addresses from 1790-2008 plus separate databases containing the 2005, 2006, 2007, & 2008 State of the Union addresses by George Bush divided by subject.

The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you?ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents? lives.

Constitues, perhaps, the most complete site available for persons who desire a gateway into e-text and e-book materials relating to the third U.S. president.

The Virtual Archive currently includes finding aids for all Vietnam Archive collections and over 1.5 million pages of materials online, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, audio and moving image recordings, artifacts, and oral histories. New items are being added daily.

Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.  The database brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. Women and Social Movements in the United States contains an extensive author database and a powerful full-text search engine.

Provides access to over 363,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage poster, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. The digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle from reels of microfilm covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.

The New York Times (1851 - 2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

"Chronicling America" is an internet based, fully seachable news resource containing more than 226,000 pages derived from public-domain newpapers located in California, Florida, Kentucky and New York published between 1900 and 1910.

Access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. EBSCO eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction (at Brooklyn College, almost 6,000 titles), and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. 

EBSCO books are viewable online and may be checked out and viewed or downloaded using the Adobe Digital Editions reader.  The reader is available free at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/.  The list of compatible devices is available at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices. 

Access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. EBSCO eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction (at Brooklyn College, almost 6,000 titles), and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles. 

EBSCO books are viewable online and may be checked out and viewed or downloaded using the Adobe Digital Editions reader.  The reader is available free at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/.  The list of compatible devices is available at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices. 

This Gale database provides access to the digital images of every page of 138,000 titles and editions published during the 18th Century (1701-1800). With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, this database provides access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. The scope of the database includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, as well as many works from the Americas. Materials digitized range from Bibles to broadsheets, sermons and printed ephemera. The database allows for searching, as well as browsing by author or work.

America: History and Life is a bibliograpahic reference of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. It contains indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.

JSTOR offers full-text access to archival scholarly journals. It offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections, covering such topics as Art, Business, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Music, Ecology, & Botany. JSTOR includes journal content, primary sources, images, and more across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is approximately a 1-5 year gap between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in the database.

Jazz Music Library provides access to works by thousands of jazz artists and ensembles (many of which have brief biographies). Users can search, as well as browse by albums, titles, and genres.  Coverage ranges from past greats to musicians performing and recording today.  Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format). Users can also save tracks and albums to personal playlists.

Association founded to promote and encouarge the study of American culture, past and present. Among other features, site includes free database of dissertation abstracts and job listings.

A joint project of the American Studies Association, Georgetown University and Washington State University, the Crossroads site is a comprehensive resource for faculty and scholars. Provides access to extensive bibliography of website for reference and research, as well as information on professional associations, curiculum and technology innovations in the field.