This is a personal list of primary sources online. Some links are open access, some are by subscription, and some only work for people affiliated with Auburn University. I try to indicate which is which.
Travel accounts
- Expedition of Baron de Longueil (1739)
- Hodgson, Remarks during a journey through North America (1823)
- Hodgson: Letters from North America (1824), vol. 1, vol. 2, both
- Howitt, Selections from Letters (1820)
- Ogden’s Letters from the West, 1821-1823
- Long, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains (1823)
- Hall, Basil: Travels in North America
- Bullock’s Journey from New Orleans (1828)
- Beltrami, Pilgrimage in Europe and America (1828), vol. 1, vol. 2, both
- Chateaubriand, Travels (1828)
- Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, Travels (1832-34)
U.S. government records
- American State Papers — AU only — or open access
- U.S. Serial Set — AU only — or open access
- U.S. Federal Law & Documents (Emory) — open access
Primary: By author
- Atwater, Caleb: Writings (1833) — open access
- Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
- Woodward’s Reminiscences — open access
Primary: By title
- Constitution of the U.S. — open access
- Federalist Papers
Primary source collections
- American Notes: Travels, 1750-1920 — open access
- Avalon Project (U.S. history) — open access
- Retro-bibliothek auf deutsch
- Zeitschriften der Aufklärung
Reference works
- American National Biography — by subscription
