Primary Sources: The New Nation, 1783-1815

As part of the New York Public Library's Digital Schomburg collection, African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digitized collection of more than 50 works by 19th-century black women writers. This digital collection is searchable by keyword.

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

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 collection, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, contains more than 85,000 documents pertaining to the presidency. The items span all eras of American history and range from the public papers of George Washington to the victory speech of Barack Obama.

From the website: "This online exhibition of letters and audio, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq.

This site contains collections of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants that were published in Virginia newspapers in the 18th and 19th centuries. This project was developed at the University of Virginia.

This site, part of Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program, documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Within the collection are approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets.

This site provides access to a digitized version of the 7 volume "Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties". Those volumes cover the period between 1778 through 1971. This site, produced by Oklahoma State University, is searchable.

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 the NARA website: "The National Archives was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt, but its major holdings date back to 1775. They capture the sweep of the past: slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation..."

This project, a joint effort of The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives, provides users with a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.

In 1800 a fire at the Office of the War Department destroyed all the agency's files. Through a painstaking restoration effort that involved finding documents in a variety of different archives, those records were restored

This collection, from Massachusetts' Springfield Technical Community College features artifacts, documents and sheet music pertaining to the 1786-1787 rebellion.

This site, part of Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program, features images of more than 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections.

The National Archives and Records administration maintains a site devoted to Historical Election Results. Included on this page are the results of the electoral college votes dating back to 1789.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections.

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.