Online Resources

American Memory

Library of Congress collection of digitized primary source materials, documents, photographs, videos, and audio clips.

Browse Topics

Government website guides arranged by topics such as history, peoples & cultures, the arts, etc.

FBI Electronic Reading Room

FBI files on many famous Americans from the 1920s-1970s

National Museum of American History

Click on "Collections" or "Exhibitions"

Smithsonian Institute

Includes online exhibitions, research, and an encyclopedia.

MSUGovDoc's bookmarked government websites on History and Historical Documents

See also: Finding Historical Government Documents

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1920s

1930s

1940s

Rosie the Riveter (Women in the WWII Workforce)

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s