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Free and Open Digital Collections

Digital collections freely available online, mostly in U.S. history. For help with finding collections on other subjects, places, and time periods, see the following pages: Research Resources and Research Guides.

In addition to the digitized archives below (and with some overlap), check out Nicole Donawho's spreadsheet of online primary sources.

United States


1918-1919 Flu Pandemic

The American Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Resources in the Collections
Beinecke Library, Yale University

Advertising

Ad*Access Project (1911-1955)
images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers & magazines 

African American History

Amos Beman Scrapbooks
Digitized scrapbooks relating to the life of a nineteenth-century Black minister

Black Film Archive
Black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming

Black Liberation 1969 Archive
Black student protest movement at Swarthmore College

​Colored Conventions Project
General project page on Black organizing in the 19th century

Colored Conventions Project: Digital Records
Digitized primary sources

Freedmen's Bureau Search Portal
Text-searchable data Freedmen's Bureau collections

Freedom on the Move 
A database of fugitives from North American slavery


Historically Black College and University Archives
HBCU Library Alliance

​Last Seen 
Finding family after slavery 

North American Slave Narratives

Slave Voyages
A digital memorial

The Freedmen's Bureau Records
National Museum of African American History and Culture & The Smithsonian

Chicana/o/x History

Chicana/o/x History: Primary Source Database

Immigration / Ethnicity

Archive of Immigrant Voices
University of Maryland Oral History Archive

​Brancero History Archive

Ellis Island / Port of New York Records

Ellis Island Photographs

New York Public Library

Immigration to the United States, 1789 - 1930 
Harvard University

Onda Latina: The Mexican American Experience


South Asian Oral History Project
Focused on the Pacific Northwest


Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation Oral History Interviews

Native American History

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection​
University of Washington Libraries

Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
University of Oklahoma

Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian
Twenty volumes of Curtis's work, including text and images

Indigenous Digital Archive’s Treaties Explorer
374 treaties between Indigenous peoples and the United States

First Nations Collection
Southern Oregon University

LGBTQ+ History

ACT UP Oral History Project​
A collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York

African American AIDS History Project
A crowd-contributed archive of African American responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic

AIDS Education Posters Collection​
Over 8,000 posters

Digital Transgender Archive
Online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world

Gay Community News
Northeastern University Library

LGBTQ+ Politics and Political Candidates Web Archive 
Library of Congress collection of LGBTQ+ people in politics

LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory 
​The hub acts as a growing resource for oral histories practitioners and the public​

LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive
Library of Congress collection of a variety of digital items related to LGBTQ+ history

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Lesbian Tide

The Queer Zine Archive Project
An digital repository of queer zines

Women's History

Alice Marshall Women's History Collection​
Literary, graphic, and manuscript materials dealing with the issues and individuals that comprised women's history from the 15th century to the early 1980s

Anna Julia Cooper Collection
Howard University

Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection
More than 1,200 books, objects, correspondence, periodicals, lobbying materials, postcards, and more

Arabella Chapman Project
Two photo albums assembled by an African American woman and her family in the last decades of the nineteenth century

Black Women Oral History Project
The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
Library of Congress

Chicago Women's Liberation Union​
CWLU was formed in 1969 and played a leading role in the women’s liberation movement in Chicago during the 1970s

Chicana Por Mi Raza
The online digital repository currently contains approximately 7,000 available digital records and over 500 interview clips

Click!
An archive/interactive timeline of the ongoing feminist revolution

​College Women
Documents the history of women in Higher Education

​Digital Witchcraft Collection
Cornell University

Discovering American Women's History Online
Access to digital collections of primary sources

Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker Diary
New York Public Library

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers
Library of Congress

Frances Willard’s Digital Journals
Provides access to Willard’s complete journals

The Heretics
The inside story of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement

Her Hat Was in the Ring
U.S. Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920

Medical Heritage Library
Historical American Medical Journals 

​History of Woman Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

Independent Voices
An open access collection of an alternative press

​In Her Own Right
A Century of Women's Activism, 1820-1920

Jane Addams Digital Edition
Jane Addams's correspondence and writings

Jewish Women's Archive

​​Mary Elsie Fox Photograph Collection
George Mason University

Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print
American Antiquarian Society

North American Slave Narratives
UNC Documenting the American South Project 

Our Bodies Ourselves
OBOS’s influence, impact, and ongoing advocacy work, and about Our Bodies Ourselves Today, a new collaboration with the Center for Health & Human Rights at Suffolk University

OutHistory
Evidence-based features on U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history; homosexual and heterosexual history; the history of people who did not conform to dominant norms of sexuality and gender—and people who did

The Real Rosie the Riveter Project
New York University

Rosa Parks Papers
Library of Congress

Reno Divorce History
Illuminating Reno's divorce industry

The Salem Witch Trials
Documents and transcriptions

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection​
Cornell University

​Schlesinger Library Digitized Collections
Harvard University

Seward Family Digital Archive
University of Rochester

​Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
Digital gateway

Tradeswomen Archives Project Collection
CSU Dominguez Hills

Veterans History Project
Library of Congress

Women in Computing Oral History Interviews
Minnesota Libraries digital conservancy

Women’s History in Digital Collections
New York Public Library

Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture​
Duke University

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Women Veterans Historical Project
The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), established at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1998, documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I

Women Working, 1800-1930
An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression

World War I

World War I Portal
National Archives

Newspapers, Magazines, Periodicals


Brooklyn Newsstand

California Digital Newspaper Collection

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress​

Digitized Newspapers from the National Library of Australia

Hot Wire: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture


Making of America

New York State Historic Newspapers

Physical Culture Magazine Digital Collection

Reveal Digital

The Colored American Magazine

Utah Digital Newspapers

Women's Voice Archive

More Digitized Repositories


Internet Archive

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Brooklyn Public Library Digital Collections​​

​Digital Collections in U.S. Foreign Relations (SHAFR)

​Documenting the American South

Early American Sources

​Kentucky Digital Library

Massachusetts Historical Society Digital Collections


Newberry Library

New York Public Library

Northwestern University Digitized Collections

SMU Digital Collections

UCLA Library Digital Collections


University of Hawaii at Manoa Digital & Digitized Collections

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Digital Collections

World Collections


The Caribbean

The Digital Library of the Caribbea​n

Europe

European Web Archive

Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern & Central Europe

Online Primary Sources

Worldwide

Radical Online Collections and Archives

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