Original texts, photographs, drawings, maps and other primary source materials will improve your place paper dramatically. Use resources from your place: people, local libraries, local newspapers, local historical societies, state historical societies. Read the landscape: Walk through and around the place you are researching. Talk to people and take some pictures. What do you see? Are there legacies of earlier periods?
Search full text and images 1851-2020 including news, illustrations, editorials, and advertisements.
Making of America (MoA) is 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, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
