Finding Primary Sources in American Studies

There are several websites which provide access to the full text of primary documents, such as those listed below:

Amdocs: documents for the study of American history
American Memory Project : from the Library of Congress. Over 70 digitized collections of photographs, sound recordings, films, and documents.
Avalon project : documents in law, history and diplomacy
American Colonists' Library : a treasury of primary documents
Cold War International History Project
Core documents of U. S. democracy : online access to the basic Federal Government documents
A chronology of US historical documents
Documents relating to American foreign policy : the Cold War : compiled by Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
"I do solemnly swear" : inaugural materials from the collection of the Library of Congress
Inaugural addresses of the Presidents from Yale Law School and the Avalon Project
Our documents : 100 milestone documents
Presidential Speech Archive : 'The Scripps Library, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the most important presidential speeches in American history. These speeches all have transcripts, and some are available in their entirety in audio or video'.
Primary documents in American history : from the Library of Congress
The valley of the shadow: two communities in the American Civil War : original letters, diaries, newspapers & speeches, census & church records from Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
World War II resources

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