United States History Resources

Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other scarce printed material covering American history, literature, culture, and daily life Dates: 1639-1819

America's Historical Newspapers provides reproductions of pages from historical American newspapers. It contains Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5. Covers 1690-1922

Early Encounters in North America contains documents on relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides perspectives from all of the protagonists.

FFCP contains digitized primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members as collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the University of Virginia Press.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which includes English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera.

Founders Online contains historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. It provides records, original thoughts, ideas, debates, and principles from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. This database is provided by The National Archives and the University of Virginia Press.

The Pennsylvania Gazette provides the reader with a firsthand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, it Includes articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements. Also included are many full-text writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.