Early American and Atlantic Studies Research Resources

Accessible Archives (18th- and 19th-century American Periodicals)
African American Experience
African Studies Companion (subscription required)
American Journeys
American Memory
American National Biography
American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900 (subscription required)
American Social History Project
American Song
Ancestry Library (subscription required)
ArchiveGrid
Archive of Americana (subscription required)
Archives USA (subscription required)
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
British Periodicals, series I and II (subscription required)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (subscription required)
Caribbean Literature
Charles Brockden Brown Society
common-place
David Rumsey Map Collection
Early English Books Online, 1473-1700 (subscription required)
Eighteenth-Century Journals, c1645-1815
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (subscription required)
Farber Gravestone Collection
Freedom Trail
Latino American Experience
Making of America (Cornell)
Making of America (Michigan)
National Portrait Gallery
Nineteenth Century in Print
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Nineteenth-Century UK Periodicals (subscription required)
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Theatre Online
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
Oxford African American Studies Center
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Britain)
Pocahontas Archive
Resources for Research: Periodicals
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (subscription required)
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Society of Early Americanists
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture
Virtual American Biographies (Appleton’s Cyclopedia)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women Writers Online

New York City Cultural History Resources

AIA New York
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902
Brooklyn Historical Society
Castle Garden
City Lore
Coney Island, USA
East Village History Project
Ellis Island
Five Points Site
Gotham Center
Great Buildings: NYC
The History Box
The Lost Museum
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection Online
Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood
Municipal Archives
Municipal Art Society of New York
Museum of the City of New York
NYCdata
NYC Stories (9/11)
NYC Subway Resources
New Netherland Institute
New-York Historical Society
New York Public Library
New York Public Library: Moving Uptown (image archive)
New York State Library Digital Archive
New York Underground
100 Years of NYC History
Place Matters
Schomburg Digital
Seneca Village
September 11 Digital Archive
Vintage City Maps
The Walt Whitman Archive
Virtual New York
Weeksville Heritage Center

NYC blogs

AIANY Blog Central
Animal New York
ArtCal
Art Fag City
Bloggy
Bowery Boogie
The Bowery Boys
Brownstoner
East Village Idiot
East Village Podcasts
Ephemeral New York
EV Grieve
Flaming Pablum
Forgotten New York
The Girl Who Ate Everything
Gowanus Lounge
Greater New York
Greenwich Village Daily Photo
A History of New York
Inside the Apple
Knickerbocker Village
Lost City
MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa
The Masterpiece Next Door
Neither More Nor Less
NewYorkology
New York Shitty
Not for Tourists
NY Art Beat
NYC The Blog
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
Out My Window NYC
Save the Lower East Side
Second Avenue Sagas
Sense & the City
Subway Blogger
Vanishing New York
Walking Off the Big Apple
Williamsburg Is Dead
Writermama
Young Manhattanite

More Hist, Lit, and Culture Blogs

About Last Night
Acephalous
Boston 1775
C-Monster
Edge of the American West
Henry’s Blog (Thoreau’s Journal)
History News Network
The Long Eighteenth
PhiloBiblos
Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

Other Stuff I Read and Listen To

Clap Clap
The Great Whatsit
Grizzly Bear
Nico Muhly
Player Piano Party
Record Club
The Rest Is Noise
Speak, Peppery
Unfogged
WFMU
Zoilus