Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, Accessible Archives DATABASES contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books.
The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
For the FOIPA Section web page, we have selected several FBI cases that may be of interest to the public. These documents also appear in paper form in our traditional reading room in Washington, D.C.
Here you can read the speeches and backgrounds of many of the most influential and poignant speakers of the recorded age. To help put each speaker in historical context, they have also provided a brief timeline of historical events.
Hear the words that changed the world. From Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech to Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball, our vast collection is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century.
From the American Folklife Center, this project strives to record the war stories of veterans from World War II, Korea, and others. Hear recordings of these stories!
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all federal records.