Primary+Sources

//Original records documenting history, primary sources may exist as anything from letters to audiorecordings or artifacts. Researchers use such firsthand materials as government documents, diaries, or art to help us understand life as people were living it and to explain history within its context.//


 * Understanding Primary Source Research:**
 * Locating, evaluating, and using **primary sources** on the Web [|ALA Primary Sources]


 * Materials and Collections:**
 * AccessPA Digital Collections [|AccessPA Digitized Repository]
 * American Memory Collection [|Library of Congress]
 * Art and Architecture [|Descriptive Text and Virtual Tours]
 * Geneaology and Family History [|National Archives and Records]
 * Smithsonian Art, Science, Culture, History, People, and Places [|Smithsonian Education]
 * Primary Source Documents (Medieval Age to Twentieth Century [|Primary Source Documents: An Internet Hotlist]
 * Ready, 'Net, Go! (Archival indexes) [|Tulane University]
 * Library and Archival Indexes on the Web [|Smithsonian Library Exhibitions]
 * National Documents, 1776 - 1965 [|National Archives Firsthand Documents]
 * American Revolution & Advanced Placement US History Sources [|History Teacher]
 * University of Houston's Digital History Web site [|Digital History]
 * Documenting the American South [|University of North Carolina Digital Collection]
 * Ad Access Database (1911 - 1957 advertisements) [|Duke University Libraries Digital Collection]
 * National Archives and Records Administration [|NARA]
 * Avalon Project: American History A Documentary Record 1492--1988 [|Yale University]
 * African American History Gateways [|Black American History]
 * Census Statistics [|United States Census Bureau]
 * Chronology and text of US Historical Documents (pre-colonial to present) [|University of Oklahoma]
 * CIA references, reports, and maps [|CIA Library]
 * Conversations with History (interviews with notables: diplomats to artists to activists) [|Berkeley University]
 * EyeWitness to History: Ancient World to 20th century [|Ibis Communications]
 * Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (Arts & Humanities, Science, Math, Physical Education) [|Federal Educational Resources]
 * History Central Source Documents [|MultiEducator History Network]
 * History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) [|Northwestern University]
 * Images of American Political History [|Public Domain Images]
 * HistoryNet [|Weider History Group]
 * Internet Archive of Texts and Documents [|Hanover Internet Archive]
 * New Deal Network [|Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute]
 * New York Public Library Digital Library [|New York Public Library]
 * Nineteenth Century Documents [|Furman University History Department]
 * Yale University Library Primary Sources Research [|Yale University Special Collections]
 * Supreme Court Multimedia Archive [|Oyez]
 * Supreme Court Historic Decisions [|Cornell University Law School Collection]
 * Supreme Court Landmark Cases [|Street Law and Supreme Court Historical Society]
 * Supreme Court General Information and Court Files [|United States Supreme Court]


 * World Topics**
 * Geographically organized worldwide repository links [|University of Idaho]
 * Eurodocs [|Brigham Young University]
 * German Propoganda Archive [|Calvin College]
 * Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm#General
 * Internet Medieval Sourcebook [|Fordham University for Medieval Studies]
 * Middle East Peace Process Documents [|Middle East History & Resources]
 * British Life and History, 1066 to present (documents, interactive materials) [|National Archives Learning Curve]
 * United Nations Treaty Collection [|United Nations]
 * University of Texas Historical Maps (topographic, ancient, world, thematic) [|University of Texas at Austin]
 * History: A Working Class and Non-Eurocentric Perspective [|World History Archives]
 * World War I Document Archive [|Great War Primary Archive and Brigham Young University]
 * World War II Documents [|Pearl Harbor History Associates]


 * Voices**
 * Speeches: Political, Popular, and Historical Speeches (including Great Native American speeches) [|American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank]
 * All Things Considered Archive (radio transcripts including many interviews) [|National Public Radio]
 * BBC Interviews (authors and other notables) [|BBC FOUR]
 * Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World, 1848 to present [|Sweet Briar College]
 * Graduation Speeches [|Yahoo Directory]
 * Historical Voices: Twentieth Century [|MATRIX: the Michigan State University's Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences]
 * History and Politics Out Loud (audiofiles range from formal addresses to private conversations) [|HPOL]
 * History Video Speeches [|History Channel]
 * History Place: Great Speeches Collection [|Philip Gavin's The History Place]
 * "I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations [|Library of Congress]
 * Lost and Found Sound (from NPR's All Things Considered) [|National Public Radio]
 * Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (Washington to Bush) [|Bartleby Reference]
 * Oral History Online! (Arts & Humanities, Science, Environment, Law, Medicine and more) [|Bancroft & Berkeley Libraries Regional Oral History]
 * Social Activism: Sound Recording Project [|Berkeley Library and Pacifica Radio]
 * Speeches (Politics and Government, Meta Sites, News, Individuals) [|University of Albany SUNY]
 * Speeches of Abraham Lincoln [|Abraham Lincoln Online]
 * Talking History (radio archive of documentaries, speeches, debates, and oral histories) [|University at Albany, SUNY]
 * Vincent Voice Library (1888 to present) [|Michigan State University Libraries]
 * World's most fascinating thinkers and doers present eighteen minute talks on topics in technology, entertainment, and design [|TED]


 * Events**
 * American Posters of World War I [|Georgetown University Library]
 * American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology [|University of Virginia]
 * Black History [|Black History Primary Source LInks]
 * Civil War Women (firsthand history and culture materials) [|Duke University Libraries]
 * Dr. Seuss Went to War (Theodor Seuss Geisel as a political cartoonist) [|University of California at San Diego, Mandeville Library]
 * Ellis Island Database Search [|Stephen P. Morse's One-Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy]
 * From Revolution to Reconstruction (Actual documents and transcripts from 1400 to 2001) [|University of Groningen in the Netherlands]
 * Gulf War: An Oral History (1990 - 1991) [|WGBH's FRONTLINE]
 * Historic Government Publications of World War II [|Southern Methodist University Libraries]
 * Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive [|University of California's Calisphere Gateway]
 * Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties [|Oklahoma State University Library]
 * Mount St. Helen's Post-Eruption Database [|University of Washington Libraries]
 * Oral History Archive of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War [|Rutgers University]
 * Publications of the War:propaganda, newspapers, comical gifts [|University of Oxford]
 * Salem Witchcraft Trials Documentary Archive [|University of Virginia]
 * Suffragists Oral History Project [|Bancroft & Berkeley Libraries Regional Oral History]
 * They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II [|Public Broadcasting Service]
 * War Stories (War journalists report events and detail their experiences from the US Civil War to Bosnia) [|Newseum]
 * War Poster Collection [|University of Washington Digital Collections]
 * War Relocation Authority: Photographs of Japanese-American Relocation and Resettlement [|Online Archive of California]
 * World War I : An Internet History of the Great War [|Trenches on the Web]
 * World War II: Arthur Pranger's private letters about his life with the 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion [|Private Art]
 * World War II Oral Histories ("stories of ordinary men and women who did extarordinary things. . .") [|Professor Aaron Elson's Oral History]


 * Maps and Images**
 * American Photography: A Century of Images [|Public Broadcasting System]
 * Politicalcartoons.com [|Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index]
 * NYPL Digital Gallery [|New York Public Library]
 * Metropolitan Museum Timeline of Art History [|MOMA]
 * Helios: National Museum of American Art: Photography [|Smithsonian American Art Museum]
 * HyperHistory Online (click on "maps") [|Andreas Nothiger's Interactive Multidiscipline World History Project]
 * International Center of Photography [|World-class Museum and Photography Resources]
 * Masters of Photography [|Mark Harden's site]
 * National Museum of Photography, Film and Television [|National Media Museum, United Kingdom]
 * Smithsonian Photographs Online [|Smithsonian Institution]
 * Time-Life Photo Sight Home Page [|Time & Life Pictures]
 * Time Photo Essays [|TIME in partnership with CNN]
 * World War II in Color http://www.ww2incolor.com/
 * World War II Military Situation Maps [|Library of Congress]


 * Historical Cartoons**
 * Baldy Editorial Cartoon Database: 1946-82, 1997 [|Digital Library of Georgia]
 * America in Caricature 1765-1865 [|Indiana University at Bloomington--The Lilly Library]
 * Database of cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations [|The New York Times Photos & Graphics]
 * Cartoons of the Week [|TIME in partnership with CNN]
 * Editorial Cartoons [|USAToday]