Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets: Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators, complete with teaching guides for class use.
American Journeys
"American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration." Search or browse by expedition, settlement, geographic region, state or province. From the Wisconsin Historical Society.
American Presidency Project
Nearly 40,000 documents related to the study of the American Presidency including the Public Papers of the President, State of the Union and inaugural addresses, presidential debates, national party platforms, and more. From UC Santa Barbara.
American Rhetoric
"A Growing database of full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events."
Archival Research Catalog
The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) can be used to search a subset of NARA documents that are available online.
Documenting the American South
"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 from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. " From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
EuroDocs
Wiki provides access to documents as they pertain to European countries, throughout history.
FDR Library Digital Archives
Includes over 13,000 pages from the "President's Secretary's File", over 1000 images, and Roosevelt's Fireside Chats. From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library.
Historic Government Publications from World War II
Contains 343 Informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) during the Second World War.
History Channel - Speech Archive
Listen to hundreds of 20th Century speeches. Categories include politics and government, war and diplomacy, science and technology, arts and entertainment. Requires RealPlayer (free download).
Holocaust Documents
The documents here are provided by the Florida Institute for Instructional Technology, in conjunction with the Florida Holocaust Museum.
Library of Congress Digital Archives
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online
A massive collection, searchable and categorized by subject, format, and creator. Downloadable, when copyright permissions allow.
Presidential Libraries
Portal offers access to all Presidential libraries and museums, where the correspondence, photographs, and significant documents of each President's time in office are archived.
United States National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.
War Letters
War Letters is a simple site which aims to database as many old war correspondence as possible and make them freely available online to all web users. With these letters, often photographs, drawings, love poems and other miscellaneous objects are included.
Women Working, 1800-1930
"Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features: 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, and 1,200 photographs."