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Primary Historical Documents: America
A chronological listing of documents from the 15th to 21st centuries. It includes maps, inaugural speeches, important court cases, treaties, also excerpts from diaries and letters, the words and music to songs.
University of Virginia Library
All kinds of material related to the Civil War, including letters, diaries, and newspapers.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
The documents on this site are listed chronologically, and do not include the cultural and social elements in the AMDOCS site. This site is primarily treaties, but there are also speeches and other documents.
Library of Congress
Middleton, Ken. Middle Tennessee State University.
United States Government Printing Office
Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Duke University.
This site contains a number of collections: Medicine and Madison Ave, Emergance of Advertizing in America: 1850-1920, Historic American Sheet Music, Civil War Women.
University Library, Univiversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. (From website).
Cornell University
A collection of imprints from between 1840-1900, including books and periodicals.
University of Michigan
A searchable "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
Documents and photographs from the collections of the National Archives.
New York Public Library
275,000 images from the New York Public Library's collections, including civil war photographs, illuminated manuscripts, japanese prints, early American maps.
Ayers, Edward L. University of Virginia.
Letters, diaries, and other documents from two communities just before, during, and just after the Civil War.
Brigham Young University
Contains treaties, reports, diaries, personal reminiscences, and a few audio recordings from the Great War.