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Primary
Sources
African-American Mosaic - sources
for
the Study of Black History and Culture
The
American Civil War Homepage - gathers together in one place
hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the
American Civil War (1861-1865)
American Memory – Historical Collection for the National Digital
Library - a gateway to rich
primary source materials relating to the history
and culture of the United States
The American
Presidency Project -
archives contain over 76,000 documents related to the study of the
United States Presidency.
An American Time Capsule - the Printed Ephemera collection at
the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the
collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the
present and encompasses key events and eras in American history.
American
Women's History: A Research Guide - provides citations to
print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary
source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find
additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
The
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - documents in law,
history, and diplomacy
A
Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents - primary sources
offered by The University of Oklahoma:
College of Law
Documenting the
American South - a digital publishing initiative that provides
Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to
Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th
century
Documents of Diplomatic History - sources provided by Mount
Holyoke College
EuroDocs
- primary historical documents from Western Europe
The Founders' Constitution - "Hailed as "the Oxford
English Dictionary of American constitutional history," the print edition of
The
Founders' Constitution has proved since its publication in
1986 to be an invaluable aid to all those
seeking a deeper understanding of one of our nation's most important legal documents."
History
Matters - serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers
useful materials for teaching U.S. history
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook - are
collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use
(includes the Internet Medieval Sourcebook and the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)
"I Will Be Heard": Abolitionism in America -
features rare books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and other materials from Cornell’s
pre-eminent anti-slavery and Civil War collections
Liberty Library of
Constitutional Classics
- a list of the classic books and other works on constitutional government
Making
of America - a digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
Native American Documents Project
- This site includes a number of indexes and explanatory articles as well as a search engine. The
explanatory articles concerning allotment and the Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation
provide tours of the main topics represented in the documents with links to indexes.
Perseus Digital Library -
primary
and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome
Primary Sources on the Web
- resources listed from the University of California
Repositories of Primary Sources - a listing of over 5000
websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical
photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar
State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States
- a collection of documents on the relations of the States to the
Federal Government, 1789-1861, comprising typical papers covering the official action of various
states in different sections of the country, relative to the chief political and constitutional issues in
our history
Tracked in America -
"this documentary Web site explores more than two centuries of
surveillance in America.
Included are two hours of audio interviews, 300
photographs, and 25 personal stories beginning in 1917."
World War I Document Archive - primary documents from World
War I
World War II
Resources - original documents regarding all aspects of the
war
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