America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1842-1862

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html

Six hundreds photographs dating from 1842 to 1862, many of them portraits by Mathew Brady and his assistants.

"American Notes, by Charles Dickens"

http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~jlg4p/dickens/titlepg.html

The novelist's observations of America in 1842.

The Life and Times of Henry David Thoreau

http://www.waldenfont.com/thoreau.asp

Information on Thoreau’s life, family, and friends, along with background on his experience at Walden and the writing of the book.

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

Searchable books and pamphlets, primarily concerning women's suffrage, but also touching on other reform movements.

A Good Day's Sport

http://www.mcny.org/
Click on 'Exhibitions' on the Museum of the City of New York Home Page, and search for 'A Good Day's Sport' to see Currier & Ives images of fishing, hunting, and horse racing in antebellum America.

Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=94da07eeebf1d83c8a2343c1253f4867;c=amverse;idno=BAD1982.0001.001

Annotated 1903 collection of his poetry.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDLive/
Scanned images of American women's diaries from the 1850s to the 1940s.

Temperance and Prohibition

http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/

Articles and primary documents on the temperance movement from the mid-19^th century through Prohibition.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

Site with many primary documents organized around questions from undergraduate and graduate school projects.