American Memory, www.memory.loc.gov. The Library of Congress's American Memory collection is an invaluable electronic archive of primary documents significant for the study of American history, politics, and culture. American Memory provides access to more than 7 million digital items, including the African American Pamphlet Collection, a vast archival resource of original documents concerning slavery, abolition, and the struggle for freedom.

Documenting the American South, www.metalab.unc.edu. Documenting the American South offers a wealth of primary documents relevant to the American southern experience from colonial times to the early twentieth century. It is an especially good source for slave narratives and other rare first-person narratives (memoirs, diaries, letters, and travel writing).

Douglass Archives of American Public Address, www. pubweb.northwestern.edu. Named for Frederick Douglass, this electronic archive published by Northwestern University contains speeches from 1645 through the present dealing with important social, political...