It offers diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature. The American Memory project and the associated National Digital Library project provide free access to an incredible amount of historical material. Making of America Contains some 360,000 pages of original printed text from several thousand volumes of important primary sources related to the development of US infrastructure. The original text has been captured as an image and the text has been keyed into a database which, along with a catalog record, is searchable by author, title, subject and keyword. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Located at Stanford University, this site will likely become the definitive collection of the civil rights leader's writings.
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The first virtual exhibit developed by the National Museum of Women's History, marking the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. Browse the image gallery or take a more in-depth tour of the woman's suffrage movement. A variety of information about Ohio history, including descriptions of places, people, and archives, and online documents. Project Open Book Contains image representations of entire 19th and early 20th-century books converted to digital form. The collection currently focuses on Civil War America, and includes biographies and regimental histories.