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Collodion glass plate negative of Robert E. Lee as an older man, May 1867. (GLC 5111.01.0478)




Timothy O'Sullivan. Photograph of Evergreen Cemetery Gate, Gettysburg, Pa., ca. 1861-65. (GLC 5111.01.0523)




Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive
http://www.abrahamlincolnarchive.com/AdvancedSearch.aspx
Search newspaper articles about Abraham Lincoln in more than 25,000 historical newspaper pages.

American Memory at the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/
American Memory is an unparalleled gateway to primary sources on the web concerning the history and culture of the United States. The site includes more than seven million items from over 100 historical collections at the Library of Congress and other institutions.

Antislavery Literature Project

http://antislavery.eserver.org/
The goal of the Antislavery Literature Project is to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, US and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies.

Cornell University Library

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/amerhist.html
Students of American history will find a rich selection of manuscripts from the colonial and revolutionary war periods to the present. The Marquis de Lafayette, George Hyde Clarke, and the signers of the Declaration of Independence are all represented by personal papers and other documents.

Documenting the American South

http://docsouth.unc.edu/
An electronic collection sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, DAS provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Categories include: First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, and The Church in the Southern Black Community.

Harvard University Open Collections Program
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
Through Harvard's Open Collections Program, resources from Harvard's libraries are made available online. Collections include: Women Working: 1800-1930, and Emigration/Immigration: 1789-1930.

John Jay Papers
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/jay/
An image database and indexing tool comprised of thousands of pages scanned from photocopies of original documents.

Library of Congress Web Guides
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PrimDocsHome.html
The Library of Congress is home to many of the most important documents in American history. This Web site provides links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress that supplement and enhance the study of these crucial documents.

National Humanities Center Toolbox Library
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/tblibrary.htm
The National Humanities Center's Toolbox Library provides free access to historical documents, literary texts, works of art, discussion questions, and teaching strategies online. Teachers, collaborating with local college or university professors, can use these resources to create their own interdisciplinary summer seminars in American history and literature.

OurDocuments.gov
http://ourdocuments.gov/
Launched in September 2002, the website of the "Our Documents" initiative, sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration and National History Day, features one hundred "milestone documents of American history." The site provides facsimiles and transcriptions of the documents with introductions.

Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category =Presidents
Presidential letters and documents from the Library of Congress and other institutions. 

The Papers of George Washington
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/
The Papers of George Washington was established in 1969 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the university and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a complete edition of Washington's correspondence.

Veterans History Project
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
The Veterans History Project collects first-hand accounts of U.S. Veterans from World War I to the present. The collection includes correspondence, visual material, and interviews.

The Washington Collection
http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/collection/index.html
Letters, images, and other documents about the life and character of George Washington, drawn from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and exhibited on the "Rediscovering George Washington" website, a joint venture of the Claremont Institute and PBS.

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library eLibrary
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/learn/learn_show.htm?doc_id=321375
The Wilson eLibrary is a digital repository of documents and images related to Woodrow Wilson and his presidency.


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