North American History: Useful Links

Suggestions for additional links should be sent to the Web Editor.

Royal Historical Society online bibliography

Internet resources for early American history - A well maintained site with sensible links to a variety of more specialised resources. Perhaps the best place to start a search for documents on the web.

Presidents - A US government funded site, run from the University of Gronigen, offering a wide range of primary materials and an ever expanding selection of brief explanatory essays.

The Library of Congress' 'American Memory' project. On line texts available include George Washington's diaries. They also provide some valuable Map Collections.

Core documents of US Democracy

The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections provides information about the holdings of major archives, for North America

Documenting the American South - collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century

Making of America - a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

Freedmen and Southern Society Project - rich in primary and secondary sources, documenting the period of emancipation between 1861 and 1867

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School contains many of the set texts for the American Revolution Further Subject.

The Rothermere American Institute website also has information about the Vere Harmsworth Library.

University of Oxford

Faculty of History

Last updated: January 19, 2004