American Civil War and Reconstruction: Online Primary Documents

Documenting the American South

Texts, images, audiofiles on history, literature and culture, colonial period to include the beginnings of the twentieth century.  From the University of North Carolina Library.  

US Civil War  (from the Internet History Sourcebooks Project )
With sections on:  The American Civil War,The Conflict over Slavery, Confederate and Union Documents, Military History of the Civil War, Social History of the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow

Library of Congress

Digital texts, prints, photographs, sound archives, and other e-resources from all time periods and countries.

Making of America  (University of Michigan)

Digital library of 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles in American social history, antebellum period through Reconstruction.

New York Public Library Digital Library Collection

Digital images from the NYPL collections--historical maps, illuminated manuscripts, prints and photographs. Includes texts and images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

National Archives--Archival Research Catalog

Features online primary source materials for educational program DocsTeach, and online exhibits.  Also guides to archival collections in regional depositories (Atlanta, Georgia, is NARA’s Southeast Regional Repository). For more information,see:

http://www.archives.gov/education/research/primary-sources.html

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

The Digital Library Collections contain exhibitions, digitized books (many on the history of science and technology), papers from the Bureau of American Ethnology BULLETIN.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

This collection includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.  The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographical sketeches of people represented in this database. 

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000

The collection currently includes 110 document projects and archives with almost 4,200 documents and 56,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,200 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, news from the archives.