To search for other digital collections, check out the ARL Digital Initiatives Database, a Web-based registry for descriptions of digital initiatives in or involving libraries.

• The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
  Provides access 5.5 million photographs taken over occupied Western Europe by the Allies during World War II.
• American Journeys
  Contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
• American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress
  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
    Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875
    • Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
      • Journals of the Continental Congress
      • Letters of Delegates to Congress
      • Elliot's Debates: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
      • Farrand's Debates: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
    • Statutes and Documents
      • Bills and Resolutions
      • Statutes at Large
      • American State Papers
      • US Serial Set (selected)
    • Journals of Congress
      • House Journal
      • Senate Journal
      • Senate Executive Journal
      • Maclay's Journal: Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791
    • Debates of Congress
      • Annals of Congress
      • Register of Debates
      • Congressional Globe
      • Congressional Record
  • Civil War Maps, 1861-1865
  • Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room
  • Newspaper Pictorials: WWI Rotogravures
  • The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals
    Digitized collection of over 1500 books and 23 periodicals
  • Stars and Stripes February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919
• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
  The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.
• BoondocksNet.com
  Contains severals large collections of political cartoons, historical advertisements, and primary sources covering imperialism. Includes (but is not limited to):
  • Historical Graphics Gallery
    Exhibits of political cartoons, photographs, and wartime posters and advertising.
  • Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
    The development of political cartoons from the beginning of the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th, with cartoons by Thomas Nast and Honoré Daumier and portrayals of Theodore Roosevelt, Uncle Sam and woman suffrage.
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle
  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963.
  This site covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. This period includes all of the years for which there is no index as well as the eleven years during which an index was published. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.
• California Digital Newspaper Collection
  Currently covers newspapers published between 1900-1910: the San Francisco Call, the Amador Ledger, the Imperial Valley Press, and the Los Angeles Herald.
• Cartoons, Political
  Links page that will take you to hundreds of historical political cartoons.
• Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) Digital Library
  Digital images of documents from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.
• Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
  During the Second World War, the staff of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper kept its own monumental record of the war. This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war.
• Digital and Multimedia Center at Michigan State University
  Includes materials on American Cookbooks, American Radicalism, Catechism of the Steam Engine, Comic Art, Early French Material, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fables, Fencing, Indian Cessions, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, MSU Student Radicalism, Nomenclature of British Insect, Occult Philosophy, Osteopathy, Robert C. Kedzie, Speculum, Sunday School Books, Temperance, the Captives of the Amistad, the Masses, Veterinary Medicine, and Women & Botany.
• Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss
• ECO: Early Canadiana Online
  Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to 2,009,084 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives
• Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection
  The Gilmer maps are an extensive group of Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction.
• Historic Government Publications from World War II
• Historical Picture Collections
• Images of American Political History
  A collection of over 500 public domain images of American political history.
• Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
  Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, this historically significant, seven volume compilation contains U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII).
• The Internet Archive
  A digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. Includes texts (out of copyright), movies, live music and audio files. All can be downloaded and all are free.
• Internet Library of Early Journals
  A digital library of 18th and 19th Century British journals, including the Annual Register, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, Note and Queries, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and The Builder.
• Letters from World War One and Two
  Primary source website dedicated to databasing as much mail from soldiers of world war one and two as possible and making them freely available online. Site contains hundreds of letters, envelopes, stamps, photos and miscellanous items.
• Lewis & Clark: A Journey
  Celebrates the bicentennial of the expedition by providing resources for education and research from the collections of the University of Cincinnati Libraries and beyond.
• The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program
  The Digital Library Program transfers rare and unique Virginia materials into an integrated, user-friendly electronic research environment. Since its inception in 1995, the Program has digitized more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80 fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids.
• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004
  Includes not only television commercials for the 1952-2004 period, but also web-based advertising for 2004.
• The LOUISiana Digital Library
  Click the "Collections" link to see everything that is available. Contains several searchable collections, including "The American Missionary Association and the Promise of a Multicultural America: 1839-1954," "French Colonization of Louisiana and Louisiana Purchase Map Collection," "From Diversity, Strength: A People's History of Louisiana, 1800-1815," "Siege of Port Hudson Louisiana 1863," "John H. Randolph and Family Letters," and "Norman (E. B. and N. Philip) Collection of Steamboat Photographs."
• Lyndon B. Johnson Oral History Project
  Provided by the Scripps Library at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. A collection of over 1,150 interview transcripts from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, may be viewed online in .pdf format. Each interview is fully searchable.
• Making of America at the University of Michigan
  This collection contains images of 8500 books and over 50,000 articles with 19th century imprints. The site has a powerful search engine that lets you search the text of all of the books and articles. This site focuses on monographs in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, science and technology, and religion, although there are many articles available as well.
• Making of America at Cornell University
  This collection provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.The site has a powerful search engine that lets you search the text of all of the books and articles. This site focuses on the major journal literature of the period, ranging from general interest publications to those with more targeted audiences (such as agriculture).
  • The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
• National Archives
  • Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
    Gateway to searching digital and non-digital records at the National Archives.
  • Films available through Google Video
• National Security Agency/Central Security Service Declassification Initiatives
  NSA/CSS periodically releases declassified documents or indexes to these documents to the public. Specific initiatives provide documents on the Gulf of Tonkin, USS Liberty, VENONA, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy Assassination and the Truman Memorandum.
• The National Security Archive at The George Washington University
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books provide online access to critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and more.
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
  NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
• The Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection
• The Online Archive of California
  Brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available.
• Online Collections from the Manuscript Reading Room of the Library of Congress
  Includes the Abraham Lincoln Papers, Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929, The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress, The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1862-1939, African American Odyssey exhibition (digital images), The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920, The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s, Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection, and Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years.
• The Open Library
  The Open Library website was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online. The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world. Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they're in the public domain, the books can be downloaded, shared and printed for free. They can also be printed for a nominal fee by a third party, who will bind and mail the book to you. The books are always FREE to read at the Open Library website.
• Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents
  Provides access to unclassified documents and media captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Public Domain Torrents
  A collection that describes itself as "movies that made history... sort of."
• Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University
  Digitized collections posted here include, Medicine and Madison Avenue; Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920; William Gedney Photographs and Writings; Ad*Access, Historic American Sheet Music; Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters; The Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project; Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement; George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, The Philippines, 1899-1901; African-American Women; Civil War Women; Duke Papyrus.
• Truman Presidential Library Digital Archives
  Includes materials on the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb, Recognition of Israel, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, Desegregation of the Armed Forces, the 1948 Campaign, the Korean War, the Berlin Airlift, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• Turning the Pages
  Digital images of great books and manuscripts from the British Library.
• United States Military Academy Map Library
  Digital representations from the six atlases and nearly one thousand maps in the History Department's collection, encompassing not only America's wars but global conflicts as well.
• University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service
  DLPS provides access to over 200 text, image, and finding aid collections that collectively provide access to over a million digital objects. Some are restricted to University of Michigan users but many are public. Some highlights:
  • Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Basler edition)
  • Digital General Collection
    Books from the University of Michigan collection, scanned for preservation purposes.
  • Making of America
  • Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
  • Transportation History Collection: Railroads
  • The United States and Its Territories: 1870-1925: The Age of Imperialism
    Contains the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines between 1870 and 1925. The primary focus of the material is the Spanish-American war and subsequent American governance (approximately 1898-1910).
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  Offers a wide array of digitized materials. SELECTED highlights include:
  • Foreign Relations of the United States - selected volumes
  • Great Lakes Maritime History Project
  • The History Collection
    Selected by librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists along a wide range of criteria, this collection includes published materials as well as archival documents. The items were digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps, and other resources.
  • Portal to Asian Internet Resources
• Utah Digital Newspapers