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Primary Sources Online
What
is a Primary Source?
A primary source records or documents events as seen or experienced
directly by witnesses or persons involved in those events.
What
Are Primary Sources?
Nutshell Definition from the Library of Congress
For more detailed explanations with examples:
What
are Primary Sources? (great site!) From UC Berkeley
Library
Using
Primary Sources on the Web (also excellent!)
From the Reference & User Services Association
What
are Primary Resources? from the UCLA Institute
The
Truth is Out There From Wesleyan University
The
Information Cycle from Farmingdale State Greenley Library
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Primary Source Databases
subscribed to by the K Library
For off campus to these databases, see Off Campus Access
Godey's
Lady's Book (1830-1845) < about >
Women
and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 < about >
Harper's
Weekly (1857-1889) < about >
New
York Times (1851 to 3 years ago) < about >
Repositories
and Archives of Primary Sources
Kalamazoo Local History
Collections
http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/local_history.html
Michigan
Local Historical Societies
http://www.hsmichigan.org/societies.php
American Association for State and Local History
Resource links to many archives, museums, regional, and state history collections
County
& Local Historical Links by State from Dale Stenseth
http://www.stenseth.org/us/locallist.html
Links
to State Historical Societies in the United States from
Dale Stenseth
http://www.stenseth.org/us/statehs.html
State Historical Societies in the United States
** to find County and Local Historical Societies,
first go to the State Historical Society for that State **
U.S.
State Historical Societies & State Archives Directory from Joe Ryan
http://web.syr.edu/%7Ejryan/infopro/hs.html
U.S. State
Historical Socities (excel file)
Directory
of State Archives and Records Programs from the Council
of State Historical Records
http://www.coshrc.org/arc/states.htm
European Archival
Network Links to Archives of European nations
http://www.european-archival.net/
Primary
Sources on the Web
from the University of California at Berkeley Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html
Repositories
of Primary Sources, Worldwide from the University of
Idaho
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
UNESCO
links to Archives Worldwide
http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_archives/cgi/page.cgi?d=1
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Primary
Sources Online
The World
OAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
Search engine for archives of digital resources, many primary
sources, including online books and journals, audio files
(e.g., wav, mp3), images (e.g., tiff, gif), movies (e.g.,
mpeg, quicktime), reference texts (e.g., dictionaries, directories),
etc..
AHA Archives Wiki: sponsored by the American Historical Association, this site is intended to be a clearinghouse of information about archival print and online collections throughout the world.
EuroDocs:
Online Sources for European History Selected Transcriptions,
Facsimiles and Translations
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European
Studies Bibliographer, Brigham Young
University,
Site includes:
World History Sources links to primary sources orgainzed by region and time period.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmfinding.php
from George Mason University
Collect Britain from
the British Library.
90,000 images and sounds from the British Library.
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/
Renascence Editions
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
Online Repository of Works
Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799
These publications are provided for nonprofit purposes only
by The University
of Oregon.
Shakespeare's Life and Times
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm
By Terry A Gray. This is copyrighted material, and you
may not duplicate the original materials or their html renderings
without permission. These materials may not be used in a for profit venture.
Permanent Exhibitions at the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/permanent.html
Internet Library
of Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
A joint project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
to digitize substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals.
The Digital Scriptorium
an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions.
Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
from The Center for Research Libraries, the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFL Project
Compact Memory
A free online archive of full text German-language Jewish
periodicals (1806-1938).
Historic
Photo Collections Links to photo collections Worldwide
from AcademicInfo
http://www.academicinfo.us/artphotohist.html
Humanities Text Initiative from
the University of Michigan (title
list)
Perseus Digital
Library Primary sources from the Classical World, from
Tufts University
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Texts in Context Primary
texts from the British Library
Trove.net
Primary source image collection from RLG, a group of libraries, museums, and
archives.
UNESCO
Archives Portal Links to primary documents and images;
also includes links to National, Regional, and State Archives
worldwide.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Primary_Sources_Online/
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United States History
Primary Source Databases
subscribed to by the K Library
For off campus to these databases, see Off
Campus Access
Godey's
Lady's Book (1830-1845) < about >
Women
and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 < about >
Harper's
Weekly (1857-1889) < about >
New
York Times (1851 to 3 years ago) < about >
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Periodicals Online
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress
newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia.
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)
from Cornell University
The
Nineteenth Century in Print from the Library of Congress
This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals
digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation
Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress.
Northern New York Historical Newspapers provided by the Northern New York Library Network
The online collection currently consists of more than 920,000 pages from 27 newspapers.
Online Serials from John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania.
Primary Sources Web Sites
American Memory:
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library From
the Library of Congress.
Topics include Agriculture, Art and Architecture, Business
and Economics, Transportation, Communication, Education, Geography,
History, Languages and Literature, Performing Arts, Philosophy
and Religion, Political Science and Law, Recreation and Sports,
Social Sciences, Technology and Applied Sciences, Photography,
and Motion Pictures.
All collections listed here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListAll.php
http://memory.loc.gov/
Abraham Lincoln Historical
Digitization Project
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
From Northern Illinois University. Lincoln/Net presents historical materials
from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings
and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois.
Ad*Access
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 I
The American Experience American
history series from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/
American
Hypertexts from the University of Virginia
American Jewish
Committee Archives
Includes oral histories, historic films and TV shows, radio
programs, and
the American Jewis Year Book, 1899-present.
American Journeys Eyewitness
accounts of early American exploration and settlement, from
the Wisconsin Historical Society
http://www.americanjourneys.org/
American Rhetoric
Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming)
versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates,
interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
AMDOCS: Documents for
the Study of American History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocsl
Full text of primary source documents in American History, from 1400 through
2000.
The
Avalon Project at Yale Law School Documents in Law,
History and Diplomacy
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
A Biography
of America by Annenberg/CPB
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/
Century of Progress 1933-34 World's Fair Collection from the University of Chicago Library
Documenting the American
South from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Seven collections of primary sources for the study of Southern history, literature,
and culture:
Duke
University Scriptorium - Digitized Collections
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/#collections
Several online collections of primary sources, most relating to American History.
ECHO Exploring and Collecting History Online
http://echo.gmu.edu/
directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry, many with images
Ellis
Island Foundation: The Immigrant Experience
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/Immexp/indexframe.asp
eserver.org some primary sources
The EServer is an arts and humanities e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University.
First World War by
Michael Duffy
http://www.firstworldwar.com/
Historical
Maps of the United States from Perry-Castañeda
Library, University of Texas Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html
Historical
Maps Online from The University of Illinois Library &
the University of Illinois Press
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/maps/
History Matters From
the American Social History Project / Center for Media and
Learning (City University of New York, Graduate Center) and
the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University
). Web resources, teaching materials, and first-person primary
documents that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
See the primary source collections here: http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/
Internet
Archive Moving Image Collection
http://www.archive.org/movies/movies.php
Internet Archive Special Collections several unusual collections
Including Dance Manuals,
Cook Books and Home Economics, Regional Oral History Office, US Government Documents, and Prelinger Library, with collections of some 50,000 books, periodical volumes and printed ephemera.
Making of America Primary
sources in American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction, from the University of Michigan and
Cornell University.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ (Michigan
site)
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ (Cornell
site)
The
Making of Modern Michigan
Browse the
Collections
Statewide collaborative project of Michigan libraries; the
goal is to create a digital collection about the Michigan
history – including 20th century materials usually excluded
from library digitization projects. The first digital resources
are available on the web through Browse
the Collections, and the collection will continue to grow.
National
Museum of American History: Collections
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/
A searchable and browsable part of the Smithsonian Institution's website that
features images of primary source objects.
National
Public Radio's Lost and Found Sound Audio artifacts
in sound files
http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/
National
Security Archive at George Washington University
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html
The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the
Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government
records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign,
intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.
New Deal Network Photos
and documents about the New Deal
http://newdeal.feri.org/
The
Nineteenth Century in Print from the Library of Congress
This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals
digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation
Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress.
NYPL
Digital Gallery
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from
primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public
Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters,
rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
The contents of this website are made available for individual
private study, scholarship and research only. Any other use,
including but not limited to any type of publication or commercial
use, is prohibited without the payment of usage fees and the
prior written permission of The New York Public Library as
well as any owners of rights in the materials, if applicable.
Regarding such permission, please contact the NYPL Photographic
Services & Permissions office for additional information."
(http://www.nypl.org/permissions/)
Picture History
Picture History is an on-line archive of images and film footage illuminating
more than 200 years of American history. Included in its holdings is the acclaimed
Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of 19th century photography as well as thousands
of images that have been researched and acquired by Kunhardt Productions for
use in historical documentaries over the past fifteen years. Picture History
is intended for the personal use of students, educators, scholars, and the
general public curious about the past.
Prelinger
Archives Over 1,200 "ephemeral" films (advertising,
educational, industrial, and amateur) made from 1927 through
the present.
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
Science in the Nineteenth Century Periodical
a searchable electronic index to the science content of sixteen nineteenth-century general periodicals.
Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library
devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting
the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
Smithsonian
Institution Libraries Digital Library Original documents
and images on a wide range of topics.
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/index.htm
Smithsonian
Institution Libraries Current Exhibitions Original
documents and images on a wide range of topics.
http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/index.htm
US National
Archives and Records Adminstration
http://www.archives.gov/index.html
And their Exhibit
Hall
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/index.html
Links to Primary
Documents in the US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/teaching_with_documents.html
The Valley Project:
Two Communities in the American Civil War from the
University of Virginia, Edward L. Ayers
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
Digital archive of primary sources documenting the lives of people in Augusta
County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American
Civil War.
White House Tapes
http://www.whitehousetapes.org/
"Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from
both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000
hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community
by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant
research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public
can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves. The
site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University
of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs."
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