Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 translated from English
African-Americans
Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Database of Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records
DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
Archives, Libraries, Agencies, and Repositories
Chicago History Museum (formerly Chicago Historical Society)
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Illinois State Historical Society
Chicago History
Chicago History Museum (formerly Chicago Historical Society)
Columbian Exposition of 1893 (digital reconstruction)
Civil War
Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
General Illinois History
Genealogy
Illinois State Genealogical Society
General U.S. History
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Great Depression and World War II
Hard Times in Illinois, 1930-1940
Illinois and Michigan Canal
The Illinois and Michigan Canal, 1827-1911
Illinois Newspapers
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Newspaper Holdings
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive
Labor History
The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
Chronology of Illinois Labor History
Illinois During the Gilded Age
Maps
Atlas Of Historical County Boundaries
Historical Maps Online (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Illinois County Boundaries 1790 – Present
Native Americans
French-Algonquin dictionary “Supposedly in the hand of [Jesuit Father] Dominique Duranquet (1813-1900)”
Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico by Frederick Webb Hodge, 1907-1910. A massive 2-volume encyclopedia of Native American tribes originally published by the U.S. government.
The Illini Confederation: Lords of the Mississippi Valley
Indian affairs. Laws and treaties. by Charles Joseph Kappler, 1903- . A compilation of all treaties negotiated between the United States and Native American tribes over the course of two centuries.
Indian villages of the Illinois country: historic tribes by Wayne C. Temple, 1958. An encyclopedic geographic overview of the wide range of Native American tribes–Iliniwek, Miami, Sauk, Fox, Potawatomi and others–inhabiting Illinois since before the arrival of Europeans.
Native Languages of the Americas: Ho-chunk Legends and Traditional Stories
Native Languages of the Americas: Illini Legends, Myths, and Stories
Native Languages of the Americas: Nanaboozhoo Stories and other Potawatomi Legends
The origin of the Cahokia mounds by A. R. Crook (1922)
Proto-Algonquian dictionary Searchable online Algonquin-English and English-Algonquian dictionary
Old Northwest
Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country before 1818
Original Online Documents
1818 Journal of the Illinois Constitutional Convention
1862 proposed Illinois Constitution
1922 proposed Illinois Constitution
1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois
Illinois Blue Books, 1900-present
Illinois Constitution-Documents from the Illinois State Library
Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales
Illinois Statewide Death Index (Pre-1916)
Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916-1950)
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900
Periodicals
Research Aids
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Illinois History Resource Page
ALHN Illinois – Links To Online Data
Illinois Trails History & Genealogy
Research and Citation
Reading, Writing, and Researching for History (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine)
Social History
The French Regime in Illinois
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791
Women