Primary Sources
American Memory from the Library of Congress- browse collections by time period, place, topic; search through map collections, manuscripts, motion pictures, sheet music, photos, prints, sound recordings and books or other printed texts. EXCELLENT SITE!
American Memory Map Collections-search for cities/towns, conservation/environment, discovery/exploration and general maps
American Rhetoric- online speech bank
Archives in the Attic- documents from the Great Depression
Archiving Early America- newspapers, maps & writings from 18th century America
The Authentic History Center- artifacts and sounds from American popular culture
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School-documents in law, history and diplomacy
Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley- 0ver 60 million manuscript items and 600,000 volumes; huge collection
Battle Lines: Letters From America's Wars- thousands of wartime letters, from the Gilder Lehrman
Collection
Biblioteche Saint Genevive- blind-tool bookbindings from 12th-18th centuries
The Charters of Freedom- Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Constitution
Child Labor in America- covers 1908-1912
CivilWar.com- official records of the union and confederate armies; covers 1881-1900.
Civil War Primary Source Documents- HUGE listing from Tracey Oz, history teacher
The Coming of the American Revolution- from the Massachusetts Historical Society; 14 lessons include primary source documents
Digital Library on American Slavery-from the University of North Carolina at Greenboro
Documents for the Study of American History- from 1000-2000, this is a very extensive listing of pdf and audio files
Documenting the American South- from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eurodocs- selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations
Eyewitness to History- audio clips from people entitled "Voices of the 20th Century"
Historical Text Archive- over 9,000 articles, books, and links
History of Ireland- primary documents
History Matters- includes 1,00 primary documents, images, and audio interviews
Holocaust Photos- [very graphic]
L.B.J.'s Phone Conversations- Lyndon Baines Johnson
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War- written by Newton Robert Scott
Library of Congress Teachers' Page- classroom materials, themed resources, lesson plans, collection connections, professional development and so much more. EXCELLENT SITE!
Medieval Sourcebook- full-text sources
National Archives DocsTeach- create activities with the online documents
National Humanities Center- "historical documents, literary texts, and works of art—thematically organized with notes and discussion questions."
New York Public Library- documents, video, audio
Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room- from the Library of Congress, this extensive listing includes: historical collections from the 19th and 20th century
Office of the Federal Register- public papers of the Presidents of the United States, federal laws
The Papers of George Washington- contains documents, articles, maps, and images
Photos of the Great Depression- includes dust storms, farms for sale, migrant workers
Popular Songs in American History- from the 17th century; this is a huge collection of audio files!
The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century- documents, photographs, audio recordings, more
Primarily History- primary sources blog written by a college librarian
Primary Sources: Oral History and Audio-Visual Materials- photos, newsreels, pamphlets, advertisements, TV clips
Primary Sources: The Korean War- from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
Prints and Photographs Reading Room- from the Library of Congress, these are selected images of Ellis Island and Immigration.
Regional History- exhibits from the National Archives includes the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Influenza Epidemic in 1918, the Atlanta Regional Archive
Repositories of Primary Sources- over 5,000 websites are listed here, covering manuscripts, archives, historical photographs, and other primary sources. WOW!!
Science Service Historical Image Collection- 20th-century scientific research; site claims "the captions were written by Science Service journalists and have been transcribed exactly".
The Smithsonian Collections- covers art, history, science, libraries
Talking History- from the University at Albany, this is a site for aural history, including radio shows
The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive- over 1700 items, (electronic texts, some color manuscript
images; 9,000 quotations arranged by theme, date, topic recipient and place of publication
images; 9,000 quotations arranged by theme, date, topic recipient and place of publication
Time and Life Pictures- search by date or use the advanced search
Timeline of Art History- from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database- over 35,000 slaving voyages
Turning the Pages- document includes: the first atlas of Europe, the oldest printed book, the original Alice's Adventures Underground (Alice in Wonderland) and Mozart's musical diary.
Why Use Primary Sources?- from the Library of Congress; ten reasons listed
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