The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.
Founded in 1990 in Mississippi as an anonymous FTP site, when the World Wide Web became readily available in the US, it became a Web site as well.
The Historical Text Archive is a growing collection of articles, books, essays, and documents on a wide range of historical subjects. Most of the material included is secondary, although there are primary source documents available too. The site also offers links and images. The site is searchable, or a user can follow links in a navigation bar on the left.

