Primary Sources:
Using Primary Sources and Links to Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources

Defining Primary Sources http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/guides/primarysources/definitions.html
Finding Primary Sources http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/guides/primarysources/finding.html
Evaluating Primary Sources http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/guides/primarysources/evaluating.html
Using Primary Sources on the Web http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
Library Research Using Primary Sources http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html
Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html
Using Primary Sources in the Classroom http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/primary.html
Repositories of Primary Sources http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
TeachersFirst.com - Original Documents http://www.teachersfirst.com/ushistory/
Primary and Secondary Sources http://www.curf.edu/library/course_guides/documents/primary_second_000.pdf

Links to Primary Sources

Ad*Access - John W. Harlman Center for Sales, Marketing & Advertising History http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/index.html 

American Colonist's Library http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement http://www.americanjourneys.org/

American Memory Historical Collection http://memory.loc.gov/

Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis (Key Apollo Source Documents) http://history.nasa.gov/Apollomon/docs.htm

Archive of Primary Sources http://www.dohistory.org

ArchiveGrid - ArchiveGrid is a service of RLG, a not-for-profit membership organization of over 150 universities, national libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning. In addition to a range of collaborative activities that address members' shared goals for these collections, RLG develops and operates databases and software to serve the information needs of researchers and learners worldwide.

Archiving Early America http://www.earlyamerica.com/

Authentic History Center http://authentichistory.com/

Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Child Labor in America 1908-1912 http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

Chinese Culture: Texts http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts.html

Civil War Documents http://www.civilwar.com/linkdocu.htm

Civil War Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html

Eighteenth-Century Resources www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th

Electronic Text Center http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html

Eyewitness Accounts of Historical Accounts http://www.historynet.com/

Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt http://www.mhrcc.org/fdr/fdr.html

Hanover Historical Texts Project http://history.hanover.edu/project.html

History of Ireland: Primary Documents http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ireland.html

Humbul Humanities Hub www.humbul.ac.uk/

Hypertext on American History http://odur.let.rug.nl/usanew

Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/manaster/

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

Indian History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html

In the First Person  -  Free database with in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. An index of letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives.

International Law and Organizations: Primary Source Documents http://www.lib.msu.edu/schaubm1/mc322psd.htm

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Full Text Sources  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html#byz2

Internet Archive - Non-profit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. (added 7-8-05)

Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences, and Manuscripts of New York Soldiers and Nurses During the Civil War http://www.morrisville.edu/library/local_history/sites/letters/

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html

Library of Fur Trade Historical Source Documents (Diaries, Narratives, and Letters of the Mountain Men) http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/mmarch.html

Making of America www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp

Medieval English Urban Life (Florilegium Urbanum) http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/flor00.html

Medieval Sourcebook: The Crusades http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1k.html

Museum of Tolerance Online - Special Collections (Documents Related to World War II and the Holocaust) http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/specialcol/instdoc/

New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

Newton's Manuscripts http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/

Nineteenth Century Documents http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/specoll/19thcentdocs/index.html

O'Keefe Library Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/History/hisamedoc.htm

Online Books Page http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Photographs of the Great Depression http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm?once=true&

Primary Sources and Transcripts from the Magna Carter to Martin Luther King, Jr. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/

Primary Sources on Voyages of Discovery http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/primary.html

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/

Salem Witchcraft Papers http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/flash.cfm?CFID+414114&CFTOKEN+31907409

Science Service Historical Image Collection http://americanhistory.si.edu/scienceservice/

Scroll Fragments from the Qumram Library (Dead Sea Scrolls) http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/Library/library.html

Spy Letters of the American Revolution http://www.si.umich.edu/SPIES/index-gallery.html

Turning the Pages -  British Library's system for turning the pages of great books including Leonardo's Notebooks, Lindisfarne Gospels, and more NEW! http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation2.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/

Virtual Library WWW History Index www.ukans.edu/history/VL

Web of English History (including American Affairs 1760-1738) Primary Sources http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/mbloy/c-eight/primary.htm

World War I Document Archive http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

World War II Resources http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

 

 

 

 

 

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