Primary+Sources+on+the+Web


 * == PRIMARY SOURCES ON THE WEB ==

This is a selected list of websites containing primary source materials. 

Primary Source Gateway Sites
**American Memory** [] From the Library of Congress, the American Memory project is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress Americana collections. There are over 70 collections included in the project. Go the the American Memory website and search a particular topic or browse through the collections. An extensive list of links to historical studies, archival resources and general history resources in the field of American history. 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. From the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, this guide links to other Berkeley SunSITE digital projects such as a virtual tour through UC Berkeley's history (**Days of Cal** at [] ) and the **Free Speech Movement** website ( [| http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/] . Links to digital text collections available on the Web. Subject areas include history, literature, philosophy and music. [] A collection of sites for primary sources organized by region.
 * American Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resources** [|http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/archives.html]
 * Edsitement** []
 * SunSITE Digital Collections** []
 * Other Digital Text Collections (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)** [|http://Sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/othertext.html]
 * Repository of primary sources **

This webstie is for teachers and students. It has sections defining primary sources, places to get primary sources and how to evaluate primary sources.
 * Using Primary Sources on the Web **[]

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. 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. 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]. An online collection of digital texts and images from the American Radicalism collection at Michigan State University. Among the many subject areas included are the Hollywood Ten, Black Panthers, Birth Control, I.W.W., Wounded Knee and Students for a Democratic Society. From the [|Bancroft Library]. An online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture. A collection of selected primary and secondary sources in US History, specifically African American Studies and Women's Studies. Included are full text of laws and court cases, autobiographies, and manuscript materials. 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. Digitized collections from the Emma Goldman Papers Project at UC Berkeley. This collection includes letters, images and a newsreel clip from 1934. 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. A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through reconstruction. 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. 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]. Primary source documents from American history starting with Columbus and going through to the Civil Rights Act of 1991. While this is a private webpage, the quality is high. A project that interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It incorporates a narrative and electronic archive of the sources on which the narrative is based. Primary source materials on all aspects of the war. The Wisconsin Historical Society has placed its entire collection online. They have developed standards based lesson plans for many of the documents (teacher and student resources and turning points). There are tools on how to use primary sources. They have also developed tools on how to foster critical thinking using primary sources (found under “teacher student resources”, then click on “classroom resources” and click on “handbook” under references)
 * The American Civil War Homepage** [|http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war]
 * American Memory** []
 * American Radicalism** [|http://digital.lib.msu.edu/onlinecolls/collection.cfm?CID=1]
 * California** **Heritage Collection** []
 * CIS History Universe** []
 * Documenting the American South** []
 * The Emma Goldman Papers** []
 * History Matters** []
 * Making of America** [] or []
 * National Archives and Records Administrtation (NARA)** []
 * The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection** []
 * US Historical Documents Online** [|http://w3.one.net/%7Emweiler/ushda/list.htm]
 * The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia** []
 * World War II Resources** []
 * Wisconsin** **Historical Society** [|http://wisconsinhistory.org]

Collections of Online Journals and Newspapers
**HarpWeek** [] Full text with illustrations of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1865, searchable by keywords, by literary genre, by occupations and role in society, and browseable by date. In addition to indexing the **Times of London** (1790-1980) and **The New York Times** (1851-1922), this resource enables you to find the full text of every article in every issue of **The Times** (of London) from 1785-1870. A joint project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford to digitize substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals. Digitized backfiles of some 117 core scholarly journals many of which go back to the 1800s. A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
 * Historical Newspapers Online** []
 * Internet Library of Early Journals** []
 * JSTOR** []
 * Making of America** []

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