History: US and Canada history primary sources

Full-text of American newspapers from 1897-1910. From the U.S. Library of Congress.

Primary sources in women's history. From the Middle Tennessee State University.

Especially strong collection of slave narratives. Also Southern literature.

Collections include the Haymarket Affair, America at Work, Inside an American Factory, and the National Child Labor Committee. Search the Ephemera Collection for pamphlets by various organizations.

Huge collection of historical prints and photographs. Most are in the public domain.

Primary sources in 19th century American social history. From Cornell University.

Scanned text and images. "All of the digital images that are available on our website are in the public domain."

This site provides access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks.

From George Washington University.

Check out the Folkways Collection, the Photography Initiative, and the Archives of American Art.

Clips of American political speeches.

Digitized primary source documents. From Cornell University.

Digitized primary source documents in women's involvement in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. From Harvard University.