We have observed that Federal government websites have been changing more frequently than usual. If the linked website does not provide the information you were expecting, our reference librarians are happy to help you get to the best available information.
Selected Web Sites
- Homeland Security Digital Library“The nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.” The Public Collection contains over 75,000 items.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930"Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression." Harvard University.
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade DatabaseExplore the Voyages Database, Assessing the Slave Trade interactive estimates page, and the African Names Database. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Harvard University), and Emory University.
Library Databases
- See Primary Sources guide for complete list.
- American History 1493-1945 This link opens in a new windowModule 1: Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Sources from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York. Contains books, diaries, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, military documents, pamphlets, broadsides and other ephemera.
“The majority of the collection is unique manuscript. It is an extensive resource for scholars, educators and students and is considered one of the finest archives for material on the revolutionary, early national, antebellum and civil war eras.”
Module 2: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Includes documents on slavery, the Civil War, and secession. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text, searchable primary documents from the 18th century; over 180,000 titles: books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and other material in all subject areas, published in the UK and elsewhere. Includes an image gallery.
- Nineteenth Century Collections: Women: Transnational Networks This link opens in a new windowProvides primary source documents, serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals focusing on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early-twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective. The collection draws from the Library of Congress, the London School of Economics and Political Science Library, and the Library of the Society of Friends.
