Library Guides: United States History: Primary source book collections

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Baldwin Library of Children's Literature
More than 100,000 children's books, including those about Indians and Native Americans, published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year.
Documenting the American South
Digitized 19th and early 20th century books (including memoirs and oral histories) that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture, including the Native Americans of the south.

Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window
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Early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials. Covers materials printed through the early 1900s.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Digitized books published in England between 1701 and 1800. Many titles deal with various aspects of U.S. history in the 18th century.

Making of America
Digital library that includes approximately 10,000 books in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Hathi Trust This link opens in a new window
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Use the "Full View Only" check box in the Full-text Search box to find books that are full text only.
Use the Advanced Catalog Search to limit your search by publication date, language etc.

Many books published prior to 1924, incuding US government publications, are available on the web free of charge. Two collections to search are:

Google Books
Use the Advanced Book option to search for specific titles, authors and keywords and to limit your search by full text availability (full view only) and publication date.

Current books still in copyright are not available full-text but you can usually use the search feature to pinpoint the pages you might need. Then search the UW Libraries Search to find a copy of the printed book.