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Archival Resources on the Web

American Studies Crossroads Project: Reference & Research
Provides links to finding aids, full-text sources, digital images, and directories for American Studies resources on the Web.

Duke Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium has digitized items from various collections in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, and has created on-line versions of exhibits that were featured in the Perkins Library gallery or Rare Book Room cases. Digital Scriptorium projects cover everything from ancient papyri to 20th century presidential campaign memorabilia.

Hanover Historical Texts Project
A project that seeks to make a wide variety of historical primary texts available online; coverage is international, but most of the completed documents are from Europe at this time.

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, hology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

National Archives and Records Administration
NARA makes available to the public the historically valuable records of the three branches of federal government.

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
A national catalog providing descriptions of manuscript collections. Catalog records are fully searchable.

Ohio Historical Society Resources
Searching tools, online full-text documents, and online databases to help you find and use information on Ohio history.

Repositories of Primary Resources
A listing of over 3200 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.