(SEE REFERENCE RESOURCES-- ART/HISTORY/LANGUAGE)
Understanding the
role of primary source materials in
research
<http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html>
WORLD HISTORY GENERAL
HISTORICAL PRIMARY SOURCES:
History through
the eyes of those who lived it
<http://www.ibiscom.com/eyindx.htm>
Multimedia world
history
<http://www.historywiz.com/index.html>
Key events in the
twentieth century
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/mainmenu/mainfla.htm>
Documents for teaching
and learning about world
history
<http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/10/003.html>
from a working-class
and
non-euro centric
perspective.
<http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/>
World history reference
sources
<http://www.kidinfo.com/World_History/World_History.html>
Links to primary
source sites
<http://www.jacksonesd.k12.or.us/k12projects/jimperry/Primary.html>
Where history lives
on the web
<http://history.about.com/>
National Archives
and Records Administration
<http://www.nara.gov/exhall/>
Hanover Historical
Texts Project
<http://history.hanover.edu/project.html>
Huge list of primary
source materials covering a wide
range of topics
in
history
<http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/curriculum/primarysources.html>
Portal to the world.
Links to electronic resources
selected by the
Library
of Congress
<http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html>
Short list of links
to the cream of the crop in
primary source
materials
<http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html>
An Internet hotlist
on primary sources generated by
the Dupont
(California)
Library
<http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listprimarymr6.html>
UNITED STATES HISTORY
GENERAL HISTORICAL PRIMARY
SOURCES:
Historical collections
for the national digital
library
<http://memory.loc.gov/>
Chronology of U.S.
Historical Documents
<http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/>
Core Documents of
U.S. Democracy
<http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html>
Early congressional
documents
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html>
U.S. Historical
Documents Archive
<http://w3.one.net/~mweiler/ushda/ushda.htm>
U.S. congressional
debates 1774-1873
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html>
Selected historic
decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court
<http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/usa.html>
Vast list of links.
Some are great, some are not. This
site includes
many
primary source links
<http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/usa.html>
Hard to describe
but useful. Includes letters and
documents.
<http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/>
Documents for the
study of American history (15th
century through
the
present)
<http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html>
Very well annotated
list of primary source websites
<http://www.ala.org/acrl/resnov01.html>
Hanover Historical
Texts Project
<http://history.hanover.edu/project.html>
American History
& Government Hot list
<http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/government.html>
American History
: A Documentary Record 1492 - 1988
<http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm>
Huge list of primary
source materials covering a wide
range of topics
in
history
<http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/curriculum/primarysources.html>
Short list of links
to the cream of the crop in
primary source
materials
<http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html>
An Internet hotlist
on primary sources generated by
the Dupont
(California)
Library
<http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listprimarymr6.html>
PRIMARY SOURCES
BY SUBJECT:
WORLD WAR II
<http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/2833/general/eyewitness/eyewitness.html>
LABOR HISTORY 1948-1975
<http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/reiss/opener.html>
PRIMARY SOURCES
BY TYPE:
POSTERS
Posters from the
WPA
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html>
Posters
<http://www.boondocksnet.com/cb/posters.html>
Posters of the Spanish
Civil War
<http://www.art-for-a-change.com/NoPasaran/spain.html>
Poem of democracy
(poster)
<http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--1_1845_1948/PD--10039804/SZ--2/posters.
htm>
CARTOONS
Great turn of the
century (20th) resources including
political
cartoons,
about U.S. foreign
policy, TR (the president), and
Mark Twain.
<http://www.boondocksnet.com/search.html>
<http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html>
American Revolution
and Civil War cartoons
<http://www.philaprintshop.com/cartoon.html>
Cartoons of the
Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
<http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm>
Political cartoons
by Dr. Seuss (yes, the guy who
wrote The Cat in
The
Hat)
<http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm>
IMAGES
U.S. Historical
Documents Archive
<http://w3.one.net/~mweiler/ushda/ushda.htm>
Image
1846 U.S. Capitol
Building
<http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--1_1845_1948/PD--10039804/SZ--2/posters.
htm>
U.S. labor and industrial
history World Wide Web audio
archive
<http://www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio/>
African-American
and the U.S. Navy
<http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/prs-tpic/af-amer/afam-usn.htm>
New York Times Magazine
timeline of women's history in
the United
States
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/wolf-timeline.html>
STATISTICS
United States historical
census browser
<http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/>
Census bureau home
page
<http://www.census.gov/>
Selected Historical
Census Data
<http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html>
Federal Reserve
Board releases and historical data
<http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/>
Federal statistics
organized by topic
<http://www.fedstats.gov/cgi-bin/A2Z.cgi>
LETTERS
Civil War homepage
includes letters, diaries and
documents
<http://www.civil-war.net/>
Letters written
by soldiers documenting their
experiences during
wars
throughout American
history
<http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/History
/Documents/>