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Additional United States Quick Links

19th Century U.S. Newspapers

Digital Archives

America: History and Life with Full Text

Indexing for over 1700 journals covering U.S. and Canadian History and Culture

Images of the American Civil War

hotographs, Posters, and Ephemera from the Civil War

Paper Trail

A guide to overland pioneer names and documents. Journals and histories of pioneers who headed west.

Social and Cultural History

Letters and Diaries Online. The most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created, this website allows one to experience the past through thousands of private writings and personal narratives.

The American Civil War Letters and Diaries

Over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs from the Civil War

Women and Social Movements in the USA

A resource of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

JSTOR

Scholarly Journals back to the 1800s

Original Sources

Thousands of primary source documents in history, literature, science, law, politics, religion, and more. A compilation of historical sources: original documents, eyewitness accounts and historical accounts.

Oxford English Dictionary

Check the usage, etymology and definition of words