Primary Sources: The Early Americas, to 1584

This collection, from the Avalon Project at Yale University, provides access to primary source materials dealing with the U.S. Constitution.

This site, an initiative of the Wisconsin Historical Society, contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration. The period covered ranges from AD 1000 sagas of Vikings in Canada to the experience of explorers in the Rocky Mountains in the 1800s.

Historical collections for the National Digital Library, from the 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.

This site, from the Middle Tennessee State University Library, provides a chronology of American Women from prehistory through the present day. The site is divided chronologically and links to primary source repositories are provided for each era. For example, The 1880-1899 section of the site provides links to primary sources available through digitized texts, the Smithsonian’s National Anthropologic al Archives, the American Association of University Women’s online collections and the Harvard University’s Open Collections

The Avalon Project provides access to digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Its coverage spand from 4000bce to the 21st century.

This site contains digital images of items found in Exploring the Early Americas A Library of CongresseExhibit featuring selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection.

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts for use in history and humanities courses. Search by keyword, or browse by subject heading.

This collection, from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, features images, texts and maps that illustrate the African-American migration experience.

From Tufts University, the Perseus Project features digital collections of materials in the humanities. Topics are wide-ranging and include the classics and the English Renaissance. The classics collection contains primary and secondary texts and more.

This digital collection from The British Library features access to digitized copies of a diverse selection of historic texts, from the first Atlas of Europe to a 15th Century church missal and the early writings of Jane Austen, among others.

This collection, form Rice University, contains two primary databases - a voyages database and an African names database. The voyages database can be searched in a variety of ways including geographic region, date, captains name, and vessel name. The database contains records of voyages from 1514 to 1866.