In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. The edition is now freely available in electronic form, an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars.

Founders Online is the collected digital version of the authoritative, federally funded Founding Fathers Papers projects. The six Founding Fathers Papers are detailed collections of all the documents authored and received by, or related to, the six major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Founders Online currently contains nearly 120,000 fully annotated and fully searchable documents. Also included are transcriptions of thousands of documents that have not yet appeared in the published volumes, provided via the Early Access program. When complete, Founders Online will include approximately 175,000 documents.

The definitive record of the nation’s first great political family, The Adams Papers Digital Edition comprises John Adams’s complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers. This XML edition presents in a searchable online environment 42 volumes of The Adams Papers from the founding generation. The contents are fully annotated, feature linked cross-references, and may be accessed by date, series, author, or recipient, as well as through a master index. Future volumes will appear in installments.

The American History Collection (Rotunda) gathers together three eras on one platform: the American Founding Era; Antebellum, Civil War & Reconstruction; and the American Century. Based on many of the most celebrated documentary editions in historical scholarship and expertly introduced and annotated, this primary-source material is fully searchable and interoperable across historical eras. Primary source materials in the various collections include correspondence and diaries of key figures in American history, thousands of constitutional and legislative documents and official state records, as well as writings in contemporary newspapers, books, broadsides, and pamphlets.

American National Biography contains biographical portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the United States. The database also features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. Also has following Special Collections: American Indian Heritage, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Black History, Hispanic Heritage, Women's History.
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Governor of Tennessee, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and eleventh president of the United States, James K. Polk was a fierce Jacksonian who expanded the nation’s boundaries more than anyone since Thomas Jefferson. When complete, this digital edition of Polk’s correspondence will include the complete contents of the print edition’s fourteen volumes. It is fully searchable, and is interoperable with other titles in the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction collection.

Contains close to 2,500 letters to or from Dolley Madison from 1788 to April 1837. Sources include letters collected by the Papers of James Madison searches conducted by the Dolley Madison Project for letters still held in private hands letters transcribed by Dolley Madisons niece, Mary E. E. Cutts and letters reprinted in other volumes, especially those edited by Lucia B. Cutts and Allen C. Clark. Users can look through all of the letters for a person or a topic, or combine two people, or two people and a topic.

Contains primary source documents from the holdings of the United States National Archives relating to all aspects of American history, from the Revolutionary War, to the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents. Highlights include Papers of the Continental Congress (1774-89), records of the Constitutional Convention, the Matthew B. Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs, and the Investigative Case Files of the Bureau of Investigation, 1908-1922.

Includes such titles as Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Weekly Compilation of the Presidential Documents, Economic Report of the President, and other documents relating to U.S. presidents.

Following a brilliant military career that brought him to national attention and set in motion the "Old Hickory" legend, Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828. This fully annotated and searchable XML-based archive collects Jackson's papers in one powerful online resource and is interoperable with Rotunda editions covering the most important personages of the nation's early history.

A landmark in historical scholarship, The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries. This digital edition offers the full content of 74 letterpress volumes in a single online publication. You may search on full text and by date, author, or recipient across all volumes and series. The exceptional indexing of the individual print volumes is combined here into a single master index, and all internal document cross-references are linked.

The Papers of James Madison documents the life and work of one of the most important political and constitutional thinkers in our nation’s history.This new digital edition collects all the volumes published thus far in the print edition’s Secretary of State series and Presidential series--as well as the Congressional series, including now-out-of-print volumes that are becoming increasingly difficult to find. New volumes will be added to the digital edition in periodic installments, rounding out the most extensive collection available of the fourth president’s writings.

Crucial to our nation’s history as author of the Declaration of Independence and third president, Thomas Jefferson was also a major figure in the Enlightenment, representing for Europeans the embodiment of the early nineteenth-century American mind. Since 1950, his writings have been compiled in two ongoing projects, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University, and The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which documents the time between Jefferson’s return to private life and his death in 1826. Rotunda’s digital edition brings together the content of the published volumes into one searchable online resource. This XML-based edition includes all the illustrations and bibliographical content of the print edition, with the added convenience of linked cross-references and indexes.

The Rotunda digital edition of Grant's papers contains the contents of the letterpress edition, including all editorial annotations, introductory essays, and appendices, and is fully searchable.

Rotunda's digital edition of Wilson's papers includes the complete contents of the landmark letterpress edition of the papers, with nearly 40,000 documents covering personal correspondence, academic work, and speeches, spread across 69 volumes, including a five-part index.