History

Geographic focus: Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and North Carolina. Personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, oral histories, photographs, postcards, maps and ephemera.

Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps, newspapers, photographs and travel journals. Dates range from earliest contact with European settlers to the Civil Rights movement.

Documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850 through personal accounts recorded in narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.

This collection documents the emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia during the 19th and early 20th centuries in personal diaries, letters, travel journals, scrapbooks, original maps, watercolors, engravings, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries is the largest electronic collection of women’s diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it presents the personal experiences of hundreds of women.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Terms of Use

Images, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, and government documents from the National Air and Space Museum Archives and Library, the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries document the pioneers of aviation.