PRIMARY SOURCES ON
THE WEB
Primary Source Gateway Sites
Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp
The National Endowment for the Humanities maintains this site with links to best
history, language arts and social sciences sites. In addition to primary
sources, there are online lesson plans and other digital learning materials.
Digitized Primary
American History Sources
http://www.library.uni.edu/instruction/digitalhistory.shtml Assembled by a
university library and easy to search, this is a great index of primary sources
sites
Primary Source collections
Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/
A collection of images from over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and
Canadian newspapers and magazines from 1911 through 1955. Subject areas include:
radio, television, transportation, beauty and hygiene and World War II.
The American Civil
War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
A general site on the American Civil War that includes links to images and
photographs from the Civil War as well as links to important Civil War
documents.
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
From the Library of Congress. The American Memory project consists of more than
70 collections including photographs and prints of the
Woman Suffrage Movement,
American Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project (1936-1940) and
Jackie Robinson and other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s.
Documenting the
American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Sponsored by the
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is an electronic collecion that provides
access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on
American history and culture. Five different projects make up the site: Southern
literature; first-person narratives; slave narratives; the
Southern Homefront,
1861-1865; the church in the Southern Black Community.
The Emma Goldman
Papers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Digitized collections from the Emma Goldman Papers Project at UC Berkeley. This
collection includes letters, images and a newsreel clip from 1934.
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/
More than 144 first person narratives of average Americans in extraordinary
times. Strong in the WWI period. A project of the Center for Social History and
the New Media, and
George
Mason University. Also includes lesson plans and teacher resources in US
History.
National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA)
www.archives.gov
Do a "NAIL digital copies search" to find online images of many NARA documents. Very strong in 20th century pictures and documents on US themes.
The
New York Public
Library Digital Library Collection
http://digital.nypl.org/
In addition to finding aids (guides to archival and manuscript collections), the
NYPL Digital Library Collections contains texts and images from the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law
School http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Includes an array of milestone "law, history and diplomacy" documents in
American and World History. Very extensive.
Collections of Online Journals and Newspapers
HarpWeek
http://www.harpweek.com
Full text with illustrations of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1865, searchable by
keywords, by literary genre, by occupations and role in society, and browse-able
by date.
Making of
America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/index.html
Collection of approximately 1,600 full-text books and 50,000 journal articles
from pre-Civil War - Reconstruction years.
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