HST 300/495

The Black Abolitionist Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the 1820s to the Civil War.

A non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use.

A collection of primary resources—historical documents, literary texts, and works of art—thematically organized with notes and discussion questions.

This site offers online access to fourteen of the most important collections in the library’s Manuscript Department relating to the institution of slavery in the United States and the Atlantic slave trade. They include account books and ship manifests documenting the financial aspects of the slave trade, legal documents such as birth certificates and deeds of manumission, and political as well as polemical works.

Includes 1384 issues of the paper available online, ranging in date from November 1860 through December 1865.

From Duke University, this guide offers lists of online primary sources and manuscript collections centering around the role of women during the civil war.

Full-text of 57 sermons published on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Both TIFF images and searchable text files are available.

Virtual Jamestown is an ambitious Web project that “explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and the ‘Virginia experiment'” during the period from 1570 to 1720. The site, as both a digital archive and a teaching resource, seeks to offer visitors the opportunity to explore the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, and follow the complex and at times unexpected interactions of European, African, and Indian over the next century.