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Primary Sources

"A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event" (libguides.utpb.edu/primarysources).

National Archives Websites

 

 

DocsTeach. 

http://docsteach.org/

 

Library of Congress. 

https://www.loc.gov/

 

National Archives. 

http://www.archives.gov/

 

Office of the Federal Register. http://www.ofr.gov/

 

 

General Websites

 

Avalon Project. 

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

 

eHistory.  

http://ehistory.osu.edu/

 

Eyewitness to History. 

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

 

Global Gateway. 

http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html

 

History Reference Center. https://www.ebscohost.com/us-high-schools/history-reference-center

 

Images from Life Magazine. 

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

 

 

News Reels. 

http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels

 

 

American Primary Sources

 

100 Milestone Documents in American History. 

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone

 

American Speeches. 

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

 

Digital History. 

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

 

Digital Library on American Slavery. 

http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/

 

The FBI Vault. 

http://vault.fbi.gov/

 

History Matters. 

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

 

Letters from Wars. 

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html

 

The Library of Congress American Memory Project. 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

 

 

Mountain West Digital Library. 

http://mwdl.org/

 

Science Service. 

http://scienceservice.si.edu/

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office. 

http://www.uspto.gov/

 

 

Early American History

 

Archiving Early America. 

http://www.earlyamerica.com/

 

The American Revolution Resources. 

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History/The-American-Revolution.html

 

George Washington. 

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/w/george-washington.html

 

Native American Links. 

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History/Native-American-History.html

 

 

Civil War Resources


The Civil War. 

http://www.civilwar.com/

 

 

The 1920s-1930s

 

America in the 1930s.  

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html

 

 

World War I

 

World War I primary sources. 

http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

 

 

World War II

 

US in World War II. 

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Reference/World-War-II.html

 

 

The US Presidents

 

 

The Papers of George Washington.  

http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/

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The Lincoln Archives. 

http://www.lincolnarchives.us/

 

The John F. Kennedy Library.  

http://www.jfklibrary.org/

 

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