American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
- It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
Digital National Security Archive
- From the award-winning, nongovernmental National Security Archive, this resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to provide unparalleled access to the defining international issues of our time.
- More information and full list of resources available in this database: https://www.proquest.com/dnsa/productfulldescdetail?accountid=10920
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Contains a lot of good primary source material from the Eighteenth Century.
Empire Online
- Empire Online brings together contemporary academic scholarship in empire studies and original documents relevant to the topics of imperialism and empire.
PALMM (Publication of Archival & Library Museum Materials)
- Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship.
The National Archives (U.S.)
- Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.