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		American Memory Project. Primary resources, including manuscript facsimiles and transcriptions, photographs, and sound recordings, on all aspects of American history and culture. Library of Congress.
		Documenting the American South. Primary sources, colonial period through early 20th Century: First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, The Church in the Southern Black Community. UNC-CH
		Making of America (MOA). Digitized books and journals in 19th century American social history. Search both the Cornell University and the University of Michigan sites.
		UNCA Special Collections. Digitized photos and documents related to Asheville area history.
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		*AdAccess.** Image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. A project of Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
		African American Studies (Primary Sources in U.S. History). Primary and secondary resources: legislation, court cases, autobiographies, manuscripts, reference articles, some journal articles. Full-text. LexisNexis
		The American Civil War Homepage. A general site on the American Civil War that includes links to images and photographs from the Civil War as well as links to important Civil War documents.
		American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography. Search slave narratives collected from 17 states during the 1930's by the WPA. Greenwood See also the Born in Slavery site from the Library of Congress and Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories from the American Folklife Center.
		Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876). Searchable Web-based archive of 170 early American newspapers from 24 states. Readex/NewsBank
		HarpWeek. Harper's Weekly online for the Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877). Full text with illustrations of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1865, searchable by keywords, by literary genre, by occupations and role in society, and browseable by date.
		History Matters. More than 144 first person narratives of average Americans in extraordinary times. Strong in the WWI period. A project of the Center for Social History and the New Media, and George Mason University. Also includes lesson plans and teacher resources in US History.
		Internet Library of Early Journals. A joint project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford to digitize substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals.
		JSTOR. Digitized backfiles of core scholarly journals, many of which go back to the 1800s.
		National Archives and Records Administrtation (NARA). Choose "Search" and select "digital copies to access NARA's strong online collection of photographs and documents.
		The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection. Contains texts and images relevant to American history, African American Studies, Utopian Studies, Urban Studies, and the arts.
		North American Women's Letters and Diaries. Searchable archive of personal writings by American women, Colonial period to 1950. Alexander Street Press
		Oxford African American Studies Center. Contains 7,500 articles from core reference works, primary sources, photographs, maps and charts and tables.
		US Historical Documents Online. Primary source documents from American history starting with Columbus and going through to the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
		Valley of the Shadow. Primary resources related to the Civil War, including official records, letters and diaries, maps, images, and soldiers' dossiers. University of Virginia Center for Digital History.
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