National History Day: South Carolina

Provides access to digital collections related to South Carolina cultural heritage or created by South Carolina institutions. Also includes resources to guide institutions undertaking digital library projects. Features include...

Includes photographs, newspapers, booklets, diaries, etc. covering local families, institutions, and events from Georgetown, SC and the surrounding county.

Materials on the Lowcountry, available through College of Charleston.

History and links from the SC Dept. of Archives and History.

Digitized collections are accessible as part of the Lowcountry Digital Project.

Representative primary texts of the 19th Century, with a particular focus on South Carolina. (archived in the WayBack Machine)

Digital maps of SC urban environments mapped from 1884-World War II.

Contains information on more than 35,000 slave voyages involving the forcible transport of more than 12 million Africans to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

This collection contains first-person accounts of slavery and photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Work Projects Administration (WPA).

This digital repository contains collections from various colleges, departments and centers at Coastal Carolina University as well as collections held by local organizations, such as the Horry County Historical Society, and individuals.

Includes Abraham Lincoln correspondence and other presidential papers, African American perspectives and slave narratives, and documents from the Continental Congress.

Repository of all digitized archival materials

Limited online resources. Confederate pension applications and will transcripts.

The Avery Research Center houses a variety of oral history interviews, largely documenting African American experiences in the Lowcountry. Oral history projects include the Avery Normal Institute documentation effort and the Sea Island Preservation Initiative.

Provides links to a lot of online resources that tie into local history.

Subjects pertaining to the history of the health sciences and MUSC

Current scholarship of MUSC faculty and students, and historical materials from the Waring Historical Library.

Of the more than 130 million items in the Library of Congress, the items on this website, including Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence, are considered its true treasures. The...

Extensive digital collections on topics, people, and events in American history from the wide-range of Library of Congress primary resources.

Free digital resource that provides access to millions of materials from libraries, archives, and museums.

This collection includes images of African American history, Native American portraiture, wood engravings by Alexander Anderson, early baseball photographs, dance in photographs and prints, fashion from late 19th to early 20th century, nature illustrated, stage and screen stars, illuminated manuscripts, wonders of ancient world, early cars, WWI images, theatre marquees, pre-Victorian to Art Deco patterns, American public figures and images of science.

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites, books, audio, film, and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

"406,213 items from more than 1000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums."

The complete 1940 population census is online through the National Archives.