North American history from c.1500 to 1865 (Paper 22)

• 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers*: fully text-searchable database of 1 million newspaper pages of the 17th and 18th centuries; includes newspapers published in the United States
• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History: links to major historical U.S. documents, most of which are related to the nation's political, diplomatic, military, and legal history; includes speeches, statutes, treaties, court decisions, memoirs, diaries, and letters
• American National Biography Online*: biographies of over 18,000 individuals
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: digital library of documents relevant to fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government, ranging from ancient times to the present
• Cambridge Histories Online*: full texts of the Cambridge History series (titles include The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas, The Cambridge economic history of the United States, The Cambridge history of American literature, The Cambridge history of law in America) 
• Chicago Tribune: historical newspaper complete from 1845-1995
• Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection: comprises the Congressional Record (beginning in 1873 and currently available through 2009), and the predecessor titles including the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Annals of Congress (1789-1824).
• Congressional Research Digital Collection: a collection of research materials – CRS Reports and Committee Prints – created for Congress.
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages of America, 1836-1922
• Chronology of US Historical Documents: free online access to the text from documents of central importance to American constitutional and legal history
• Documenting the American South: digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture
• Early English Books Online*: digital library of almost every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, 1473-1700
• Electronic Enlightenment*: wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century
• Empire Online*: online collection of original documents relating to empire studies; includes exploration journals, periodicals, government papers, maps
• Historical Statistics of the United States*: standard source for the quantitative facts of American history, fully cross-referenced and indexed
• Library of Congress: website of the Library of Congress, which includes extensive online catalogues and collections; particularly useful is the Digital Collection section
• Making of America (Cornell University): digital library of primary sources related to the development of the US infrastructure
• Making of America (University of Michigan): digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period to reconstruction
• National Archives and Records (US): website of the National Archives, which includes extensive online catalogues and collections
• New York Times, 1851-2010*: online access to the New York Times, from 1851 to 2010
• Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue: catalogue of over 1.2 million items published in the English-speaking world from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War
• Official Publications Libguide: United States: Cambridge guide to US Official Publications
• Oxford African American Studies Center: digital library of scholarship on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture
• USMA Digital Collections: documentation from the archive collections of the United States Military Academy, including many historic maps
• Virginia Company Archives*: digital versions of the Ferrar Papers (held by Magdalene College, Cambridge), documenting the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London

(Resources marked * denote those subscribed to by the University Library; should any of the links not work, go to the eresources@cambridge page and try accessing the resource from there.)