History and Political Science: Websites

A project of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) in partnership with the Library of Virginia/

A collaboration of Earlham, Goshen, and Manchester colleges, the Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies provides primary documents - including minutes, diaries, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals - ranging in date from the 1700s to the present.

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress

Text-searchable access to census & birth/death records
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