Historical Primary Sources: United States: West North Central Midwest

A collection of letters, photographs, and diary entries that document the Kansas-Missouri border war.

"Thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today."

Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works drawn from the Library of Congress.

Online visual collection of historical images showcasing the Mississippi River region along the Iowa/Illinois border.

More than a million digital objects created from the holdings of the University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners. Included are illuminated manuscripts, historic maps, fine art, historic newspapers, scholarly works, and more.

An online repository of Iowa history and culture that brings together digital resources of Iowa libraries, museums, historical societies and other cultural institutions

Digitized Historical Society materials hosted at partner sites.

Records of German immigrants living in the state of Kansas who registered as alien enemies per government orders.

Historical society materials hosted locally and links to other repositories.

Includes University Archive collections, photographs, oral histories, and manuscripts.

Primary source materials relating to the 1920 lynching of three young black men in Duluth, Minnesota

Digital history project researching and mapping racial covenants in Minneapolis.

Provides access to numerous materials including photographs, artifacts, historical records, maps and atlases, oral histories, art, paintings, sound recordings and much more.

A collection of over 360 oral history interviews conducted between 1967 and 2012 with recent immigrants to Minnesota and their American-born children

The collection brings you more than 210,000 images, maps and documents from more than 155 of the state's cultural heritage organizations.

Varied collections on Missouri history including records, images, diaries and more

Digital collections include photographs, oral histories and more

Collection of books, images, maps, and more on Missouri history

Digital history site that uses thematic maps and hosts primary sources to explore themes of white flight, race and property, municipal zoning, and urban renewal.

Collection of over 450 documents, newspaper articles, photographs, and more illustrating the history of the 1891 murder

Collection of photographs, documents, maps, and other material documenting Nebraska history

This digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family.

Includes artifacts, books, documents, maps, postcards, original paintings, and photographs on a variety of topics relating to trails in Nebraska.

Features materials such as photographs, reports and other media from the archives collections.