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 * Primary Sources**
 * This page is currently maintained on [|this LibGuide]**

//**What is a primary source?**// //A primary source is first hand evidence. It was there at the time of an event. It is contemporary to the period being studied. Examples of primary sources are speeches, letters, songs, legislation, court decisions, journals/diaries, interviews, artifacts, autobiographies, and photographs.//


 * [|Primary Source Thumbnails]**

//**More about primary sources:**//
 * [|How to Read a Primary Source] //(Bowdoin)//
 * [|Library Research Using Primary Sources] //(Berkeley)//
 * [|Milestone Documents: Teaching with Primary Sources]
 * [|NARA 100 Milestone Documents]
 * [|Teaching with Primary Sources] (Library of Congress)
 * [|Using Primary Sources on the Web]
 * [|Why Study History Through Primary Sources?] (Fordham)
 * [|Historical Thinking Matters]
 * [|Benchmarks for Historical Thinking]
 * [|Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources]
 * [|Smithsonian Source] (lessons, documents, more)
 * [|Smithsonian Education]
 * [|American Memory Timeline for Teachers]
 * [|Docs Teach (NARA)]
 * [|Student as Historian] (Peter Pappas)

//**Primary Source Databases**//
 * [|ABC-CLIO databases] are rich with primary sources
 * [|Annals of American History]
 * [|Curriculum Resource Center]
 * [|Digital Vaults] (NARA selections)
 * [|elibrary Curriculum] offers radio and television transcripts!
 * [|GaleNet Student Resource Center Gold] is a rich collection of primary sources!
 * [|History Engine]
 * [|Historic Documents] (2004 - 2008)
 * [|ProQuest Historical Newspapers] Check with your teacher regarding whether this will be accepted. It offers contemporaneous reporting from the //New York Times//, //Washington Post//, and the //Wall Street Journal// back through the 19th century
 * [|SIRS Government Reporter]
 * [|SIRS Historic Documents]
 * [|Student Resource Center Gold]
 * [|World Book Online Primary Sources]
 * [|Books Should be Free: History]
 * Don't forget to check a selective [|list of our books containing primary sources!]

//**Some sources for Primary Sources and Learning Strategies:**//
 * [|American Memory Collection]
 * [|American Memory Timeline for Teachers]
 * [|Artifact and Analysis] (Smithsonian)
 * [|Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln]
 * [|National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library]
 * [|100 Terrific Sites to Find Primary Source Documents]
 * [|Calisphere: World of Primary Sources and More] (U. California)
 * [|Discovering American Women's History Online]
 * [|Footnote.com: The Place for Historical Documents Online]
 * [|Library and Archival Indexes on the Web]
 * [|Library of Congress (Flickr collections)]
 * [|Museum of Online Museums]
 * [|National Archives and Records Administration's Digital Classroom]
 * [|National Archives and Records Search]
 * [|National Archives YouTube Channel]
 * [|Picturing America] (art galleries and resources)
 * [|Prologue: Pieces of History Top 10 National Archives Web Sites]
 * [|National Security Archive]
 * [|Our Documents] (primary sources and teaching resources)
 * [|Kathy Schrock's Navigating Primary Sources]
 * [|Primary Source Documents: An Internet Hotlist >]
 * [|Ready, 'Net, Go!] (Archival indexes)
 * [|Show us the Data] (The most wanted Federal government documents)
 * [|Teaching with Documents]
 * [|VADS: Free Art and Design Images for Education] (Read Terms of Use)
 * [|Voice of the Shuttle: History]


 * United States Documents**
 * [|Milestone Docs: Am. History]
 * [|Milestone Docs: Am. Leader]
 * [|ACCESS PA Digital Repository] (PA digitized collections)
 * [|Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project LincolnNet]
 * [|Ad Access Database] (advertisements)
 * [|American Rhetoric]
 * [|American History and Government Hotlist]
 * [|American Hypertexts]
 * [|American Memory Collection Finder]
 * [|American Memory Learning Page]
 * [|AP US History: Docs] (American Revolution)
 * [|Cengage: The American Pageant]
 * [|Census Statistics]
 * [|Charters of Freedom]
 * [|Chronology of US Historical Documents] (U. Oklahoma)
 * [|Civil War Newspapers Harper's Weekly]
 * [|Columbia University Digital Collections]
 * [|Constitutional Sources Project]
 * [|Conversations with History] (interviews with notables)
 * [|Core Documents of U.S Democracy]
 * [|Digital Classroom]
 * [|Digital History]
 * [|Documenting the American South]
 * [|Documents in Early American History]
 * [|Eduscapes Primary Sources and Real World Data]
 * [|Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search]
 * [|Emergence of Advertising in America] (1850 - 1920)
 * [|EyeWitness: History through the Eyes]
 * [|Eye Witness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It]
 * [|Eyewitness to Labor History] (1948 - 1975)
 * [|Federal Resources for Educational Excellence]
 * [|From Revolution to Reconstruction]
 * [|Founders' Constitution]
 * [|Gift of Speech Women's Speeches from around the World]
 * [|Governing Dynamo] (inaugural address--text and word clouds)
 * [|Great Documents]
 * [|History Central Source Documents]
 * [|Historical List of Policy Documents]
 * [|Historical Text Archive]
 * [|History Central: Primary Sources]
 * [|History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL)]
 * [|HistoryNet]
 * [|Lincoln Archive]
 * [|NARA 100 Milestone Documents]
 * [|National Archives Digital Classroom]
 * [|National Archives Experience]
 * [|National Archives Search]
 * [|New Deal Network]
 * [|New York Public Library Digital Library]
 * [|Nineteenth Century Documents]
 * [|Oral History Online! Oral History Online]
 * [|Our Documents]
 * [|NARA Primary Sources, Activities, and Training for Educators and Students]
 * [|Primary Sources Yale University]
 * [|Project Gutenberg: Listing by Author]
 * [|Rutgers Digital Collections]
 * [|Say it Plain A Century of Great African American Speeches]
 * [|Smithsonian Institution]
 * [|Texts and Documents]
 * [|Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet]
 * [|Uncle Sam - Migrating Government Publications]
 * [|U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873]
 * [|U.S. Founding Documents]
 * [|U.S. Historical Documents]
 * [|Voices of Feminism] (Sophia Smith Collection)
 * [|World War I Document Archive]

We have many circulating and reference books relating to Supreme Court cases in the 340s! //For your reference: [|The Bill of Rights] and another version of [|The Bill of Rights]//
 * Court Cases**
 * [|ABC-CLIO American Government]
 * [|Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy]
 * [|CQ Encyclopedia of US Government]
 * [|CQ Historic Documents]
 * [|FindLaw Public] (local information for general public)
 * [|Foreign Governments: Constitutions, Laws and Treaties]
 * [|FindLaw: Supreme Court Opinions]
 * [|Free Case Law]
 * [|Justia: Supreme Court Cases]
 * [|Landmark Supreme Court Cases]
 * [|'lectric Law Library]
 * [|Lexis One Free Case Law]
 * [|LII Supreme Court Decisions]
 * [|Oyez Oyez: US Supreme Court Multimedia Database] (cases by subject)
 * [|Rominger Legal]
 * [|Selected Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court] (search by topic)
 * [|SIRS Government Almanac] (Supreme Court)
 * [|Supreme Court of the United States]


 * Documents of the World**
 * [|Contagion: Historical Views on Diseases and Epidemics]
 * [|Eurodocs]
 * [|EyeWitness: History Through the Eyes of Those who Lived it] (Eyewitness accounts organized by date starting with Ancient Greece.)
 * [|German Propoganda Archive]
 * [|Gift of Speech Women's Speeches from around the World]
 * [|Hanover Historical Texts Project]
 * [|Historical Atlas of the 20th Century]
 * [|History of the United Kingdom Primary Documents]
 * [|Internet Medieval Sourcebook]
 * [|In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives]
 * [|Middle East Peace Process Documents]
 * [|National Archives Learning Curve]
 * [|Penn Library: Government Treaties]
 * [|Repositories of Primary Sources]
 * [|United Nations Treaty Collection]
 * [|University of Texas Historical Maps]
 * [|Victoria Research Web: 19th-Century Britain]
 * [|World History Archives]
 * [|World War I Document Archive]
 * [|World War II Documents]


 * Speeches, Interviews, and other voices!**
 * [|All Things Considered Archive] (radio transcripts including many interviews)
 * [|After the Day of Infamy: 'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor]
 * [|American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank]
 * [|BBC Interviews]
 * [|Conversations with History] (Interviews)
 * [|Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World]
 * [|Historical Voices]
 * [|History and Politics Out Loud]
 * [|History Place: Great Speeches Collection]
 * [|"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations]
 * [|Lost and Found Sound] (from NPR's All Things Considered)
 * [|Martin Luther King Online: Speeches]
 * [|Online Speech Bank]
 * [|Social Activism: Sound Recording Project]
 * [|Speech/Transcript Center]
 * [|Speeches and Transcripts] (University of Albany)
 * [|Speeches of Abraham Lincoln]
 * [|Speeches and Transcripts] (University of Albany)
 * [|Talking History]
 * [|Vincent Voice Library]
 * [|White House.gov] (for speeches of the President, Vice Presidents, First Ladies)
 * [|Yivo Institute Photographs of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe]


 * The Presidents**
 * [|Correspondence Between John and Abigail Adams]
 * [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum]
 * [|"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations]
 * [|Nixon White House Tapes]
 * [|Presidential Debates]
 * [|Presidential Libraries]
 * [|Speeches of Abraham Lincoln]
 * [|White House.gov]
 * [|LBJ White House Tapes]
 * [|Lincoln Archive]


 * Event Specific**
 * [|America From the Great Depression to WWII] (Library of Congress)
 * [|American Posters of World War I]
 * [|American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology]
 * [|Avalon Project: World War II Documents]
 * [|Black History: Primary Source Links]
 * [|Civil War Women--Primary Sources]
 * [|Civil War Newspapers Harper's Weekly]
 * [|Dr. Seuss Went to War] (political cartoons)
 * [|Ellis Island Database Search]
 * [|From Revolution to Reconstruction] (actual documents and transcripts from 1400 to 2001)
 * [|Gulf War: An Oral History]
 * [|Historic Government Publications of World War II]
 * [|Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive]
 * [|Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties]
 * [|After the Day of Infamy: 'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor]
 * [|New Deal Network]
 * [|North American Slave Narratives]
 * [|Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art of World War II]
 * [|Private Art] (letters to and from the homefront--WWII)
 * [|Publications of the War]
 * [|Rutgers Oral History Archive of World War II]
 * [|Salem Witchcraft Papers]
 * [|Suffragists Oral History Project]
 * [|They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II]
 * [|Veterans' History Project]
 * [|War Stories]
 * [|World War I Document Archive]
 * [|War Poster Collection]
 * [|War Relocation Authority: Photographs of Japanese-American Relocation and Resettlement]
 * [|World War I Images]
 * [|World War I Trenches on the Web]
 * World War II Oral HistoryWeb


 * Maps and Images**
 * [|About.com Historic Maps]
 * [|America's First Look at the Camera] (1839-1864)
 * [|American Memory Collection] (Library of Congress)
 * [|American Memory Maps Collection] (1500--1999)
 * [|American Posters of World War I]
 * [|American Photography: A Century of Images]
 * [|AP Photo Archive]
 * [|By Popular Demand] (Presidential portraits)
 * [|Cartoonstock]
 * [|Collection Finder American Memory] (click on Maps or Photos and Prints)
 * [|George Eastman House Museum]
 * [|Helios: National Museum of American Art: Photography]
 * [|Historical Atlas of the 20th Century]
 * [|History of Photography: From its Beginnings to the 1920s]
 * [|HyperHistory Online] (click on "maps")
 * [|International Center of Photography]
 * [|Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr]
 * [|Masters of Photography]
 * [|Metropolitan Museum Timeline of Art History]
 * [|NARA ARC Basic Search] (select photographs)
 * [|NARA: Picturing the Century]
 * [|National Museum of Photography, Film and Television]
 * [|New York Public Library Picture Collection Online]
 * [|Perry Casteneda Library Map Collection]
 * [|Picture Collection Online] (New York Public Library)
 * [|Politicalcartoons.com]
 * [|NYPL Digital Gallery]
 * [|Posters American Style]
 * [|Powers of Persuasion] (WW II posters)
 * [|Smithsonian Flickr PhotoStream]
 * [|Smithsonian Photographs Online]
 * Time-Life Photo Sight Home Page
 * [|Time Photo Essays]
 * [|World War II in Color]
 * [|World War II Military Situation Maps] (Library of Congress)
 * [|WWW Virtual Library History and Images Index]

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