Primary Sources for United States History

Collections include Adams Family papers, diary of John Quincy Adams, revolutionary era newspapers & more

805 selected issues of the Boston Evening-Post, the Boston-Gazette, and the Boston Weekly News-Letter primarily published between 1765 and 1776

Digitized version of the newspaper from 1736 to 1780.

Historic American newspapers dating back to 1789

Includes correspondence between Abigail and John Adams

51 volumes spanning from 1779 to 1848

"Correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799."

Correspondence and other papers dating from 1723 to 1859

Standard collection of his complete writings.

Thousands of letters, manuscripts and documents from the first Chief Justice of the United States

"Correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes... ranging in date from 1606 to 1827."

Published accounts of exploration dating from the Vikings to exploration of the west in the mid-19th century.

"Digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries"

Illustrations from the 1590 edition A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

Collection of books by Hakluyt include those dealing with the discovery of the Americas

Transcribed court records, sermons, letters and diaries dealing with the 1692 accusations and trials.

Transcriptions of selected documents from the Plymouth Colony including court and probate records and laws

Transcriptions of texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820

Collection of images that date from1492 to the 1820s

More than 300 probate inventories from the Chesapeake region of Maryland and Virginia

Papers dating from the 1750s and 1760s of the Pennsylvania-based “Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures”

Digitized version of the multi-volume set of colonial records and papers

Transcriptions of thousands of documents illustrating North Carolina history; especially strong for the period of the 1750s to 1780s

Digitized version of the printed colonial records covering 1636-1776

Digitized version of the printed series of colonial and state papers