This is a wonderful thread by my colleague @jacobflee on open access digitized sources to help folks trying to conduct historical research during the pandemic. And adding a few sites I use:
Jacob mentioned the Library of Congress website, which has a vast number of resources but I want to highlight "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation" which features the Congressional Globe and other records covering the federal government memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/la…
Furman University digitized a good number of editorials from the period just before the Civil War in their "Secession-Era Editorials Project" history.furman.edu/editorials/see…
The Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland has digitized a portion of their records: freedmen.umd.edu/sampdocs.htm
University of North Carolina's "Documenting the American South" has a wonderful collection of records stretching from the colonial era to the present, including many that are North Carolina-specific but others that are not. docsouth.unc.edu/support/about/
The Alabama Department of Archives and History has great material on the state including nineteenth-century gems like 1875 voter registration books. digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/
The Digital Library of Georgia has a large number of collections on African American history and particularly the history of black colleges and universities: dlg.usg.edu/collections
Cornell University's "Making of America" digitized several Civil War-era newspapers and also has the full, searchable text of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion collections.library.cornell.edu/moa_new/index.…
University of Detroit Mercy has a useful digital archive of documents relating to black abolitionists: libraries.udmercy.edu/find/special_c…
The Colored Conventions project, created by @profgabrielle and a team of incredible researchers and digital scholars, features hundreds of primary sources related to the long history of the conventions movement. coloredconventions.org/about-records/
I love the digital work that @wgthomas3 and his team at the University of Nebraska did in creating "O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law and Family Project" which traces cases, networks, and families in the struggle against slavery in DC earlywashingtondc.org
The New York Public Library digitized the U.S. Sanitary Commission Records, which are an incredible source for folks working in the history of health and medicine in the second half of the nineteenth century digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/un…
There are many more (and thanks to those who retweeted or replied with their additions!) but a special shout out to Kristen Epps and her colleagues at UCA and their curated list of open access digital databases for history throughout the world: padlet.com/UCAHistory
