HIST 631: Research in American History

This resource can be browsed, or searched by keyword, subject, name, historical period or geographic location.

Books, journals, manuscript collections, photographs, and other rare, special, and archival materials.

The Library of Virginia holds various resources which may be of use to researchers of Virginia or Richmond history. Holds census records and various birth, death, military service, and other records. Holdings can be searched directly or via WorldCat.

The archives of the United States.

Consolidated database of finding aids to manuscript and archival collections, provides information about historical materials that document Virginia History and culture from 1607 to the present.

Richmond-based private organization with collections that consist of a wide range of objects, including books and bound serials, Confederate imprints, sheet music, broadsides, newspapers, family and personal papers, business and organizational records, genealogical materials, maps, paintings, prints, postcards, weapons, militaria, glass plate negatives, and 19th–21st century photographs.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit "library for the internet" that contains a large amount of texts and media of one format or another, permanently available free and online.