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History Librarian

Priscilla Munson
304 Cooper Library
wprisci@clemson.edu (864) 656-6375

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More History Resources


AmDocs   documents for the study of American history, arranged chronologically
     
American Journeys   eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement
     
American Memory   the Library of Congress' vast collection of digitized materials, browsable & searchable
     
Avalon Project   documents in law, history, & diplomacy from Yale Law School
     
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers   view newspaper pages for selected states, 1880-1922
     
Documenting the American South   from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, primary resources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture
     
Eurodocs   links to Western European historical documents, many translated into English
     
Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History   online archive of documents in American history, both transcribed & in facsimile
     
Internet History Sourcebooks Project   a collection of public domain & copy-permitted historical texts for educational use
     
The Labyrinth   resources for medieval studies, sponsored by Georgetown University
     

Making of America

 

digital library of 19th century American books & journals

University of Michigan site - 10,000 books, 50,000 journal articles

Search or browse books
Search or browse journal holdings

Cornell University site - early 19th century magazines & journals, plus "War of the Rebellion" and "Official Records of the Union & Confederate Navies"

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Perseus Digital Library   collections of ancient texts and translations, secondary sources, maps, images
     
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database   information from the years 1501-1866 on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages, including data on 70,000 individuals, statistical tables and maps.

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