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This site contains 100 milestone documents compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965 and include the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Marshall Plan.

Emma Goldman was a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. This is a collection of her papers and includes exhibitions and memorabilia.

The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War. Here you may explore thousands of original documents that allow you to see what life was like during the Civil War for the men and women of Augusta and Franklin.

The American Memory Project is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

The American Slave Narratives contain interviews with slaves from Ohio to Mississippi, including North and South Carolina. These narratives are grouped by locations. The general index is the first title listed.

This site has a fully indexed collection of educational websites. It contains resources spanning the American Civil War and the conflict over slavery plus the Reconstruction and Jim Crowe eras.

The North Carolina Digital Collections contain over 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. The Collections are free and full-text searchable, and bring together content from the State Archives of North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.

The Special Digital Collections at UNC Charlotte. Notable collections include the New South Voices-- more than 700 transcripts of interviews, narratives, and conversations documenting life in the Charlotte, North Carolina region in the twentieth century, including the experiences and language of recent immigrants to the area. As well as The Bryant McMurray motorsports photographs collection contains images of motorsports races, personalities, and events shot between 1969 and 2016.

"Appalachian State University Digital Collections consist of rare and historic materials made available online through the efforts of the Belk Library and Information Commons and the departments of Special Collections, Technology Services, and Bibliographic Services. The materials digitized include sound recordings, oral histories, civil war letters, and images focusing on the Appalachian region, Appalachian State University, children’s literature, art, and theater."

Thousands of images, texts, and audio/video from ECU's diverse collections and beyond. Highlights include the African American History Collection, the Country Doctor Museum Collection and the North Carolina History and Fiction Collection.

The Hunter Library at Western Carolina University has a regionally oriented, historically significant collections of broad cultural and research interest. Examples of the collections include Cherokee traditions, the Civil War collection and the Great Smoky Mountains Collection.