Links to the Past (National Park Service)

19^th century material can be found in:

Cultural Groups

History

Museums

Learning Subjects

American Memory (Library of Congress)

19^th century material can be searched by subject, format or chronology.

Of the individual American Memory collections, the African American Pamphlets, 1824-1909 was especially useful.

WWW-VL History Central Catalogue (Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas)

The following sub-indices are excellent:

Labour and Business History

Slavery

Urban History

Women's History

Research: Methods and Materials

19th century Primary Sources (Making of America, University of Michigan)

The large collection of 19^th century journals and books at this site can be read in scanned images of their original formats.

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-media Archive (Stephen Railton, University of Virginia)

Women in the 19^th century:

Women & Social Movements, 1820-1940 (Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, SUNY Binghampton)

19th-century Women Writers on the Web (Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers)

The E-text library at this site is excellent.

19^th-century Music Sites:

California Sheet Music, 1852-1900 (Mary Kay Duggan, University of California, Berkeley)

Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins University)