U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online

Thousands of maps of North America from the earliest printed portrayals to the close of the 19th century; multiple versions and editions allow for historical comparisons. (New York Public Library)

100 maps depicting early representations of New England and North America. (Beinecke Library, Yale Univ.)

More than 1600 "valuable primary documents, which focus on the European discovery and settlement of the Americas." (McGregor Library at the University of Virginia)

Transcripted excerpts of primary documents. (Digital History, University of Houston)

When complete, this project will make available to the world digitized images of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th and 18th century North America. (Harvard Univ.)

Online access to 87 volumes of the Society's publications, representing selections from the Society's archives on the early history of Massachusetts. Dates of documents included in the volumes range from approximately the 1620s to the 1860s, along with the transactions of the Society itself from its establishment in 1892 to the 1960s. (Colonial Society of Massachusetts)

"Between 1760 and 1765, merchant James Poyas maintained a daybook documenting his numerous business transactions in the growing colonial trade center of Charles Town, South Carolina. Poyas's account provides insights into developing commercial networks in Charles Town, the expanding South Carolina backcountry, and the British Atlantic World." (Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston)