LibGuides: History : Web

Historical Documents

America's Historical Documents Digitized documents from the National Archives.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Digitized collection of American newspapers from 1777-1963.
Documenting the American South Provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history. Created and maintained by The University Library of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Hathi Trust Digital Library Digitized collection of millions of books, and other documents, most of which was published before the 1920s.
Library of Congress Digital Collections Large collection of digitized historical documents from the Library of Congress.
Portal to Texas History Rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries.

The Living New Deal Map Interactive map showing the locations of New Deal (1933-39) public works throughout the United States.
Map of White Supremacy’s history of lynchings Interactive map and timeline showing when and where lyinchings occurred throughout the United States.
Old Maps Online Search the name of a place on Earth and find historic maps of that location.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Large collection of maps from the University of Texas.

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima in 1945. This image is in the public domain.

Cross Timbers Historic Images Project A collection of 19th and 20th century historic images from the Cross Timbers area of Central Texas, including but not limited to Erath County, Hamilton County, Hood County, Somervell County, Palo Pinto County, Comanche County, and Eastland County.
National Jukebox From the Library of Congress, more than 10,000 audio recordings made between 1901 and 1925.