Resources By Department: History: Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY PERIODS - REFERENCE BOOKS

COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA AT HARVARD LIBRARY When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America.
DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used.
DOCUMENTS FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN HISTORY A collection of links to primary documents in American history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the current presidency. (George Laughead Jr., manager, WWW Virtual Library, United States History)

EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS SERIES I: EVANS, 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window
Digital editions of "virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over 160 year period." Subjects include government, history, economics and trade, literature, philosophy, religion, theology, science, society. (Readex)
EARLY ENCOUNTERS IN NORTH AMERICA: PEOPLES, CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT This link opens in a new window
A searchable collection of over 85,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs documenting the lives of early inhabitants and visitors to North America from 1534 to 1850. (Alexander Street Press)

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS Gateway to digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Find online documents and information about materials preserved at the archives. Also hosts Presidential Libraries.

NORTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPER DIGITIZATION PROJECT Historic North Carolina newspapers dating from 1752-1890s. Compiled by the State Archives of North Carolina.