Documents for the study of American History

This Library of Congress site contains written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music.

Find sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history.

A digital encyclopedia. University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine.

This 1970 publication contains folk song titles, some lyrics and scores. Also included are coloured reprints of sheet music covers for 32 songs.

Find letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

1950s - present.
Search alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines.

1600 to 2000.