Social Studies

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General Social Science Resources

Digital History

View timelines and historical archives for United States history

Digital Public Library of America

Discover 29,975,726 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Library of Congress Digital Collections

View Library of Congress collections on a large number of topics

Making of America

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Smithsonian Learning Lab

The Smithsonian Learning Lab is a major rethinking of how the digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, 9 major research centers, the National Zoo, and more, can be used together, for learning

Voices of Democracy

The Voices of Democracy project promotes the study of great speeches and debates in U.S. history. The emphasis of the project is on the actual words of those who have defined the country’s guiding principles, debated controversial social and political issues, and shaped the identity and character of the American people.