Primary Source Materials
Published Materials
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I (Foundation users only)
Full text of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.
American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Foundation users only)
Full-text access to more than 29,000 works about the Americas, published around the world between 1500 and 1926.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) (Foundation users only)
Full-text access to more than 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published between 1639 and 1800.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) (Foundation users only)
Full-text access to over 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published between 1801 and 1819.
Early English Books Online (Foundation users only) Full-text access to "virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700."
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Foundation users only)
Full-text access to hundreds of thousands of works published in the U.K. and the Americas during the 18th century.
The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature (Foundation users only) Full-text access to more than 61,000 books and periodicals published between 1450 and 1850 relating to economics and related topics - e.g. trade, manufacturing, slavery, politics, etc.
Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers (Foundation users only)
Full-text access to thousands of American newspapers from 1690-1900.
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Foundation users only) Full-text access to approximately 1,270 newspaper titles, pamphlets and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries in the United Kingdom, mostly in London.
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Foundation users only) Full-text access to 48 national and regional newspapers published in the United Kingdom during the 19th Century.
19th Century United States Newspapers (Foundation users only)
Access NewspaperARCHIVE
Millions of searchable newspaper pages from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Includes newspapers from the United States, Europe, the UK, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Jamaica, and Canada.(Foundation users only)
Personal Papers
Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
(Foundation users only)
Includes volumes 1-33 (covering 1760 to April 1801) of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson published by Princeton University Press.
American Founding Era Collection
(Foundation users only)
Simultaneously search the Adams Papers, Dolley Madison, and George Washington Digital Editions (listed individually below).
Adams Papers Digital Edition
(Foundation users only)
Includes all volumes of the Adams Papers published by Harvard University Press to date.
Thomas
Jefferson Papers (Library of Congress)
Scanned black-and-white images of most documents in the Thomas Jefferson Papers collection at the Library of Congress. Transcriptions are provided for some documents.
Thomas Jefferson Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Color images of selected documents in the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Papers at Massachusetts Historical Society. Transcriptions are provided for some documents.
*See also Researching Thomas Jefferson: Primary Sources
Family Letters Project
Search the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson's extended family.
Government and Public Documents
American
Memory (Library of Congress)
Burned
Record Counties Database
Century
of Lawmaking
U.S. Congressional Documents and debates, 1774-1873
Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants
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Biographical & Genealogical Sources
American
National Biography (Foundation users only)
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Ancestry Library
Edition (Foundation users only)
AskART.com
Biography and directory on American artists
Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress
Dictionary of National Biography (Foundation users only)
Brief biographies of more than 56,000 people relevant to British history, provided by Oxford University Press.
HeritageQuest
Online
(Foundation users only)
Museum
of Early Southern Decorative Arts Craftsman Database (Foundation users only)
New England Historical Genealogical Society
(Foundation users only)
Virginia Runaways (Virginia Center for Digital History)
Runaway slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers
World Biographical Index
Cited materials available at Alderman Library (UVa)
Find Books, journals, and Manuscripts
American Periodicals Series Online
Search the full text of more than 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.
(Foundation users only)
19th Century UK Periodicals (Foundation users only) Full-text access to nearly 600 magazines, journals and other periodicals published in the United Kingdom during the 19th Century. Includes Series I: New Readerships and Series II: Empire.
Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
Index to American Botanical Literature
JSTOR
(Foundation users only)
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NAIL
NARA Archival Information Locator
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Smithsonian Institution: Archival Manuscript and Photographic Catalog
descriptions of papers, oral history, manuscripts, images...
Past
Portal (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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Thomas
Jefferson Bibliography (Frank Shuffelton)
Virginia Heritage
Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia
Virginia Newspaper Project
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Research
Databases