American History
Civil Rights Digital Library
Documenting America's struggle for Racial Equality.
Digital Public Library of America
Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Martin Luther King Institute at Stanford
Building upon the achievements of Stanford University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, the King Institute supports a broad range of educational activities illuminating Dr. King's life and the movements he inspired.
National Archives
Learn about National History Day resources from the National Archives! Explore DocsTeach in support of your NHD project for this year's theme- Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas.
National Museum of African-American History and Culture
Welcome to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture.
National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History serves as the custodian of our national treasures and is honored to hold the public’s trust.
National Museum of the American Indian
The NMAI cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.
Digital History acts like an online museum of historical works, but also includes a broad collection of reference tools including original documents, teachers' tools and transcripts as well as audio of book talks given by important historians.
New Jersey State and Local History
Relay is a national, accredited, nonprofit institution of higher education whose mission is to teach teachers and school leaders.
The New Jersey Digital Highway is your "one stop shop" for New Jersey history and culture, from the collections of NJ libraries, museums, archives and historical societies.
GCHS collects and preserves artifacts, records, and materials that tell the history of Southern New Jersey.
Journey Through Jersey is your go-to site for all things heritage tourism in NJ.
World History
British National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history.
Europeana
Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage.
Library and Archives Canada
It serves as the continuing memory of the federal government and its institutions and as the guardian of Canada’s distant past and recent history.
Trove - National Library of Australia
Trove is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organizations around Australia.
Created by EdTechTeacher, is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
Online Sources for European History Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
Ancient History
Fordham Sourcebook - Ancient Rome
Welcome to The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
Fordham Sourcebook - Greece
Welcome to The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
LeMoyne Library "Ancient Civilizations" Primary Sources
A list of reputable web sites that contain primary sources from Ancient Civilizations. These websites can be difficult to search, but with patience and the use of good keywords you may find something useful.
Montana State University - Online Ancient History Primary Sources
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
University of Washington Ancient History Primary Sources
A research guide to primary and secondary sources for ancient history.
University of West Florida - Ancient and Medieval Primary Sources
Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period. They are not commentary about your topic, but are the topic you are commenting about.