American Memory Collection
These American Memory
resources are groups of primary source documents from U.S. History. Each
group has a number of separate collections that coverthe time period and
beyond. Be careful that your document is within your time period.
1400s-1699
Primary Source Collections
1700
-1799 Primary Source Collections
1800
-1849 Primary Source Collections
1850
-1899 Primary Source Collections
The National Archives
These National Archives
resources each focus on important events, issues and historic happenings.
At the top of each page you may read the story, and then scroll down the
page to see the documents, images and pictures that bring the story to
life.
Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
Images
of the American Revolution
Observing
Constitution Day
Launching
the New United States Navy
Eli
Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin
United
States v. Thomas Cooper: A Violation of the Sedition Law
Tally
of the 1824 Electoral College Vote
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Anti-Railroad
Propaganda Poster: The Growth of Regionalism, 1800-1860
The
Amistad Case
Lincoln's
Spot Resolutions
The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Petition
of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West
Migration
North to Alaska
The
Sioux Treaty of 1868
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Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Fugitive
from Labor Cases: Henry Garnett (1850) and Moses Honner (1860)
The
Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
The
Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Letters,
Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors that Affected the Civil
War
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Alexander
Graham Bell's Patent for the Telephone and Thomas Edison's Patent for the
Electric Lamp
Glidden's
Patent Application for Barbed Wire
The
Homestead Act of 1862
Little
House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Maps
of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, and Will Rogers' Enrollment Case File
Petition
Signed by Thomas A. Edison for Sunday Openings at the World's Columbian
Exposition
Affidavit
and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
Photographs
of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
Primary
Visuals: Political Cartoons from U.S. History
This is a collection of many political cartoons from the historic past
up to the present. |
