Tom Glynn
History and Political Science Selector
glynn@rci.rutgers.edu
March 7, 2002

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: History - American and British:
Full-text Documents by Period

Great Britain

General British History Documents
Ancient and Medieval
Early Modern (circa 1450's - 1800)
Nineteenth Century Etexts
Twentieth Century Etexts

North American

General North American History Documents
Colonial, Revolutionary, & Confederation
Nineteenth Century Etexts
Twentieth Century Etexts

Great Britain

General British History Documents

- British History Documents (Britannia)
- Avalon Project (Yale Law School): - Digital documents in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from all eras. Many American documents and other from around the world.
- Documents in Military History (Hillsdale College): - Will eventually cover all periods
- Guide to Law Online: United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (Library of Congress)
- Guide to Law Online: Ireland (Library of Congress)
- United Kingdom: - Historical Documents via BYU

Ancient and Medieval

- Argos Limited Area Search of the Ancient World: - Peer-reviewed, search engine for Ancient and Medieval Studies.
- Henry of Bracton's Laws and Customs of England (De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae_)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook: - Many basic texts translated into English.
- The Laws of Alfred and Ine
- Life of Edward the Confessor from Cambridge University Library: - Online version of a thirteenth-century manuscript.
- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Early Modern (circa 1450's - 1800)

- The British Academy John Foxe Project
- Edmund Spenser's 'A View on the Present Condition of Ireland'
- In Her Own Words: Elizabeth I Onstage and Online
- Richard Hooker's A Learned Discourse on Justification (sermon)
- Thomas More's Utopia (1516)
- Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis (1626)
- George Fox: Autobiography (Quakers)
- John Bunyan (1628-1688): Works
- John Bunyan: - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
- John Bunyan: - Pilgrim's Progress
- John Bunyan: - Holy War
- John Donne: - Deaths Duel (sermon 1630)
- John Donne: - Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
- John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
- John Locke: Concerning Civil Government (1690)
- John Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
- London Gazette:: - Various issues from 1674, 1675, 1678, and 1692
- Montpellier Early Modern English Documents: - "A collection of electronic texts prepared for the online community of Renaissance scholars by the members and partners of the Centre d'Itudes et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise in Montpellier"
- Richard Baxter (1615-1691): The Saint's Everlasting Rest
- Adam Smith: - Wealth of Nations
- Edmund Burke: - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Edmund Burke: - On Moving His Resolution for Conciliation
- Fanny Burney: - Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney (Samuel Johnson)
- George Berkeley: - A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
- James Boswell: - Selections from Bosewell's London Journal: a Visit to Tyburn and Newgate (1762-1763)
- Jonathan Swift: - A Modest Proposal (1729)
- Jonathan Swift: - Argument Against Abolishing Christianity
- John Wesley: - Sermons
- John Wesley: - A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1725-1777)
- John Wesley: - Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists
- Mary Wollstonecraft: - Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (1798)
- Mary Wollstonecraft: - Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1788)
- Samuel Johnson: - Rambler, 1749-1750
- Samuel Johnson: - Idler, number 60
- Samuel Johnson: - Idler, number 61
- Samuel Johnson: - Rasselas
- Samuel Johnson: - Vanity of Human Wishes
- (Sir) Joseph Banks: - Journal when he sailed with Cook to the Pacific on the Endeavour (1768-1771)
- William Godwin (Anarchy Archives): - Political Justice, collected works and other links
- William Law (Christian Classics Ethereal Library): - 18th century spiritual writer and mystic
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (1798)

Nineteenth Century British Etexts

- Caroline Norton (1808-1877): - Works
- Charles Darwin: - Origin of the Species
- Helen Taylor (1831-1907): - The Claim of Englishwomen to Suffrage Constitutionally Considered (1867)
- John Stuart Mill: - The Subjection of Women
- John Stuart Mill: - On Liberty
- Josephine Butler (1826-1906): - Works
- Penny Magazine: (Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832-1845).
- Views of the Famine: - (Irish Potatoe Famine)Contemporary reports of the Irish tragedy of 1845-51, from: The Illustrated London News, The Pictorial Times, and Punch

Twentieth Century British Etexts

- UK Official Documents from the Stationery Office
- U.N. Documents: - General Assembly, Security Council, etc.,
- Winston Churchill's Speech: - The Retreat From Flanders ("We Shall Defend Our Island:" House of Commons, June 4, 1940)
- The World War I Document Archive: - Contains full texts of documents like the Hague Convention, and the Peace Treaty of Versailles, as well as a biographical dictionary of participants in the conflict.

North American

General North American History Documents

- AMDOCS Documents for the Study of American History (University of Kansas): - extensive list arranged by period
- The Annotated Constitution (GPO, Congressional Research Service)
- Avalon Project (Yale Law School): - Digital documents in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from all eras. Many American documents and other from around the world.
- A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents (Univ. of Oklahoma)
- Documents in Military History (Hillsdale College): - Will eventually cover all periods
- Documents Relating to U. S. Foreign Policy, 1620 to the present AND International Relations in General: Historical and Contemporary: - From Professor Vincent Ferraro, Ruth C. Lawson Professor of International Politics, Mount Holyoke CollegeInternational Relations Program. Especially rich source for documents from World War I and World War II but also covers the Cold War,Viet Nam, and even the Clinton admistration.
- Guide to Law Online: Directory of Guide to United States Law (Library of Congress)
- Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project: - From the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes, offers constitutions, tribal codes, a synopsis of U.S. Supreme Court Cases etc.
- Native American Documents Project: - Documents about the history of Federal policy concerning native peoples.
- New Jersey Historic Documents
- A Hypertext on American History: - Through Reconstruction period. Narrative with links to documents

Colonial, Revolutionary, & Confederation

- The Annotated Constitution (GPO, Congressional Research Service)
- Archiving Early America: - Historic Documents from 18th Century America
- The Articles of Confederation (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
- Benjamin Franklin: - Autobiography
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (Library of Congress)
- Charters, grants, and other documents (Avalon Project, Yale Law School): - Documents related to the early history of 16 states, mostly seventeenth century, via Yale's Project Avalon.
- The Charters of Freedom (National Archives): - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights
- Colonial and Revolutionary America: - A modern hypertext project
- Constitution, Bill of Rights and Amendments (Rutgers)
- Cotton Mather Web Page
- Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents: - Drafts of The Declaration of Independence
- Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 (American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
- Edmund Burke: - On Moving His Resolution for Conciliation
- Federalist Papers
- George Washington: Journal: - Describing his Journey to Ohio, from two issues of the Maryland Gazette, March 1754
- John Woolman: - Journal
- Letters From An American Farmer: - by J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur (1782)
- The Papers of George Washington (Univ. of Virginia): - Explanation of editorial project, list of volumes available. Contains selected documents with explanations, facsimile and transcription.
- Papers of James Madison: - Information on volumes, brief biography. So far only three sample documents with reproductions of originals that are hard to read.
- PLAIN TRUTH (1776): - Abridged loyalist attack on Payne's 'Common Sense.'
- Selections from the Complete Newgate Calendar: - including Jack Sheppard & Jonathan Wild (1795)
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Library of Congress American Memory Project
- Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia --Electronic Text Center
- Thomas Jefferson: - Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper (1817)
- Thomas Jefferson: - An Act Establishing the Univ. (1819)
- Thomas Paine: - Common Sense (1776)
- A User's guide to the Declaration of Independence: - From the Claremont Institute. Click on Founders' Library for many documents in American History, Some items not readily found elsewhere
- Virginia Colonial Records Project: - Attempt to reconstitute the archive of Virginia's colonial history. Images of reports are linked to an index containing over 300,000 personal-names and ship-names.
- Virginia Colonial Records Project: - Attempt to reconstitute the archive of Virginia's colonial history. Images of reports are linked to an index containing over 300,000 personal-names and ship-names.
- William Hogarth: - Selected Prints ***Lots of images***
- William Penn: - Some Fruits of Solitude (Quakers)

Nineteenth Century American Etexts

- Anna R. White: - Youth's Educator for Home and Society (1896)
- Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935: - Also includes Mark Twains writings on Imperialism.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (Library of Congress)
- The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography: - (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918).
- "From 'Shepp's New York City Illustrated' ": - Chapters 9-13; HTML Edition by Lillian Fox, Matthew Mueller, and Wes Miller. Based on Shepp's New York City Illustrated,originally published in 1894.
- Godey's Lady's Book: - Lady's magazine for "elegant literature begun in 1830. The years 1855-1858 are centered upon.
- Godey's Lady's Book (Univ. of Vermont): - November, 1850
- Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1890-1891)
- Manufacturer and Builder (periodical--1869-1894)
- Mark Twain in His Times: - Ongoing examination of the marketing, performance, and reception of Twain's work.
- A Master Sold by a Slave: (McClure's 1897)
- Presidential Elections and the Electoral College (American Memory project, Library of Congress): - A variety of full-text documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, including materials on contested elections.
- Scientific American (1846-1850)
- Supreme Court Decisions via Findlaw 1937 to Present
- Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation
- Tocqueville, Alexander--Democracy in America: Tocqueville's America (1831-32): - In addition to the full text of Democracy in America, letters and other primary sources from observations of foreign vistitors to America.
- Vincent Colyer: - Notes Among the Indians (Putnam's 1869)

Twentieth Century American Etexts

- American Prohibition Project: - (Ohio State Univ.) ***Many images***
- Diaries from the Gulf War: - Five diaries online at Mississippi State.
- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (late 1960s--early 1970s)
- Edith Wharton Society: - A very well-organized and comprehensive gateway to Wharton's works, correpondance, and The Edith Wharton Review, the Society
- Elinore Pruitt Stewart: - Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914)
- Executive Orders issued by John F. Kennedy
- FBI Headquarters Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Home Page: - FBI files from individuals and organizations investigated
- History of the United States Postal Service: - 1775-1993
- J.F.K. Documents and etc. from Yahoo
- New York City History: - Lower East Side (ca. 1900): includes works by William Dean Howells, Jacob Riis, and many contemporaries.
- Supreme Court Decisions via Findlaw 1937 to Present
- Supreme Courts Decisions, 1937-1975
- U.N. Documents: - General Assembly, Security Council, etc.,
- US EPA History Office
- Venona Project: World War II KGB Correspondence to Agents in USA: - Made available by the U.S. National Security Agency
- Village Voice: Fortieth Anniversary: - Selected Articles and Video Interviews from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
- The World War I Document Archive: - Contains full texts of documents like the Hague Convention, and the Peace Treaty of Versailles, as well as a biographical dictionary of participants in the conflict.
- Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters (Library of Congress): - Exhibit of photographs and articles written by female journalists in Europe during WWII.