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AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History - From excerpts from Christopher Columbus' journal to documents relating to the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton.
American Memory - Historical Collections from the Library of Congress, including many excellent photographs.
American Presidency Project - Public papers, presidential elections, inaugural addresses and more.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Speeches and Interviews - A Project of the Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET)
McCarthy Hearings, 1953-54 - Investigative records of the U.S. Senate, released in 5 volumes. Includes testimonies of Langston Hughes, Aaron Copeland, various government employees, labor organizers. See S. Prt. 107-84 by scrolling down the page.
Michigan eLibrary > Michigana - Local history materials
National Archives and Records Administration - This agency, the official preserver of Federal records, provides access to many documents of historical interest.
Our Documents - Milestone documents in American history
University of Detroit Mercy > Black Abolitionists Archive

The American Experience - From Public Broadcast System.
C-SPAN - See links at the bottom to American Presidents, American Writers, Booknotes, Book-TV.
Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 6th ed. - Encyclopedia spanning from prehistoric times to 2000.
History Today - Online history journal plus reviews of history sites and links to history sites by category (period, geography, type of history).
Ohio State at Michigan - Michigan at Ohio State - Includes digital images of historical books on Detroit and Michigan history published before 1900, plus other rare materials.

U.S. History Collection (Infotrac)
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- Off-Campus
World History Collection (Infotrac)
- On-Campus
- Off-Campus
Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
- On-Campus
- Off-Campus
HarpWeek - This is a full-text/image database for Harper's Weekly from 1857 through 1889.
- On-Campus
- Off-Campus
JSTOR
- On-Campus
- Off-Campus
Pendergast, Sara, and Tom Pendergast, Eds. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- On-Campus
- Off-Campus

To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
Selected Reference Books
- Encyclopedia of American History. Ed. Richard B. Morris. New York : Harper & Row, 1982.
  HL, OR, RO Reference E 174.5 .E52
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. by Jack Salzman, et al. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996.
  AH, OR, RO Reference E 185 .E54
- Stearns, Peter N. Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
  AH, HL, OR, RO Reference D 21 .L27
Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
- D - DR History of Europe
- DS History of Asia
- DT-DX History of Africa, Australia, New Zealand
- E History: America and United States (General)
- F1-1419 History: United States (Local)
- F 1421-3799 History: Central America, South America

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