PRIMARY SOURCES                                                                                                              

 

 

PRIMARY RESOURCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY

 

                     

 

Primary Sources:  Chico High School (a major source of information)  http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/primary.html

 

Ad Access Database (advertisements) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/browse.html

 

AmDocs:Documents for the Study of American History http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

 

American History and Government Hotlist http://sin.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/government.html

 

American Hypertexts http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html

 

American Originals (NARA)American Originals: The Original Exhibit http://www.arahives.gov

 

Avalon Project: American History A Documentary Record 1492-1988

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm

 

Boondock’s Net  http://www.boondocksnet.com

 

Census Statistics http://www.census.gov

 

Charters of Freedom http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/charters.html

 

Chronology of US Historical Documents (Univ. Of Oklahoma)  http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

 

Conversations with History (interviews with notables)  http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations

 

Digital Classroom http://www.nara.gov/education/classrm.html

 

Eye Witness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who lived It  http://www.ibiscom.com

 

Eyewitness: to Labor History http://www.nyu.edu.library.bobst.collections/exhibits/tam/reiss/opener.html

 

From Revolution to Reconstruction  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/usa.htm

 

History Central Source Documents http://www.historycentral.com/documents./index.html

 

Historic Documents (Project Vote Smart)  http://www.vote-smart.org/reference/histdocs/

 

 

 

Historical Text Archive  http://historicaltextarchive.com/

 

History Central: Primary Sources  http://www.historycentral.com/documents.index.html

 

History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) http://www.hpol.org/

 

Images of American Political History http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/

 

HistoryNet http://www.thehistorynet.com

 

National Archives Search http://www.archives.gov/search/index/html

 

National Archives Digital Classroom  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html

 

New York Public Library Digital Library http://digital.nypl.org/

 

Nineteenth Century Documents http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/

 

Oral History Online! Oral History Online  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/

 

Primary Sources, Activities, and Training for Educators and Students  http://www.nara.gov/education/

 

Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.eduschroltohistory

 

U.S. Historical Documents Archive  http://www.ushda.org

 

Yale University Library Primary Sources Research  (Be sure to scroll down the site) http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm

 

PRESIDENTS

 

                                                

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum  http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

 

American Presidents-Life Portraits  http://www.americanpresidents.org/

 

JFK and LBJ tapes http://www.c-span.org

 

“I Do Solemnly Swear…” President Inauguration Speeches  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html

 

Nixon White House Tapes http://www.c-span.org/executive/presidential/nixon.asp

Presidential Debates   http://www.debates.org/

 

Presidential Libraries http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/president/

 

Speeches of Abraham Lincoln http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative.lincoln.speeches/speech.htm

 

White House.gov   http://www.whitehouse.gov/

 

 

MAPS AND IMAGES (PHOTGRAPHS, ILLUSTRATIONS, CARTOONS)

 

                                              

 

About.com Historic Maps  http://geography.miningco.com/cs/historicmaps/

 

America in Caricature 1765-1865  http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/cartoon/cartoons.html

 

American Memory Collection (Library of Congress) http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

 

American Photography: A Century of Images  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

 

Baldy Editorial Cartoon Database: 1946-82, 1997  http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/baldy.html

 

By Popular Demand (presidential portraits)  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem.odmdhtml/preshome.html

 

Collection Finder American Memory (Click on Maps, or Photos and Prints)  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html

 

George Eastman House Museum  http://www.geh.org

 

Helios: National Museum of American Art:  Photography  http://nmaaryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/index.html

 

Historic Graphics Library http://boondocksnet.com/gallery/index.html

 

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20century.htm#General

 

International Center of Photography http://www.icp.org/

 

Perry Casteneda Library Map Collection  http://www.libutexas.edu/maps/index.html

 

Picturing the Century  http://www.archives.gov

 

Political Cartoons http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/political_cartoons.html

 

Smithsonian Photographs Online  http://photo2.si.edu/index.html

 

Time Photo Essays http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/

 

SPEECHES

 

                      

 

All Things Considered  (This is a collection of radio transcripts including interviews)  http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/

 

Conversations with History (Another collection of interviews) http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

 

Douglass: Archive of American Public Address http://douglas.speech.nwu.edu/

 

Gifts of Speech:  Women’s Speeches from Around the World http://gos.sbc.edu/

 

Great American Speeches http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/

 

History and Politics Out Loud http://www.hpol.org/

 

History Place: Great Speeches Collection  http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm

 

“I Do Solemnly Swear…” This is a collection of the Presidential Inaugural Addresses.  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html

 

Martin Luther King Online Speeches  http://www.mlkonline.com/speeches.html

 

Online Speech Bank http://americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

 

Oral History Online! Oral History Online  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline

 

Speeches of Abraham Lincoln  http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/speech.htm

 

Speechbot http://speechbot.research.compaq.com/cgi-bin/query

 

Speeches and Transcripts (Univ. of Albany)  http://library.albany.edu/reference/speeches.html

 

White House.gov (For Speeches of Presidents, V-Presidents, First Ladies) http://www.whitehouse.gov/

 

 

LAW, SUPREME COURT CASES, AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS

 

                              

 

SIRS GOVERNMENT REPORTER (go to library homepage, click on SIRS, scroll to Government and then look for

Supreme Court Cases.

 

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School:  Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

 

Civil Rights Act of 1991 http://www.eeoc.gov/law/cra91.html

 

Civil Rights Act of 1964 http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/vii.html

                                                                                                              

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Homepage http://www.eeoc.gov/

 

Family and Medical Leave Act http://www.dol.gov/esa.fmla.htm

 

FedWorld/FLITE U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Home Page http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm

 

FindLaw: Supreme Court Cases  http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

 

Foreign Governments:  Constitutions, Laws and Treaties  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/forcons.html

 

Instacase.com http://www.instacase.com/

 

‘lectric Law Library http://www.ledtlaw.com/

 

Legal Information Institute http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct

 

Legal Information Institute: Employment Discrimination http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/employment_discrimination.html

 

Lexis One Free Case Law  http://www.lexisone.com/legalresearch.lrfreecaselaw.html

 

Oyez Oyez: US Supreme Court Multimedia Database (you can search by subject)

http://oyez.at.newu.edu/

 

Rominger Legal http://www.romingerlegal.com/supreme.htm

 

Selected Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court (search by topic) http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct.cases.historic.htm

 

Supreme Court of the United States http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

 

USSC+.com (this is a subject index) http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

 

Washington Post: Supreme Court http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/courts/supremecourt/20012002/

 

WORLD (GLOBAL) HISTORY SOURCES

 

                        

 

Eurodocs  http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html

 

EyeWitness :  History Through the Eyes of Those who Lived It  (These are eyewitness accounts organized according to

time—starting with Ancient Greece.  http://www.ibiscom.com/eyindx.htm

 

German Propaganda Archive  http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

 

Hanover Historical Texts Project http://history.hanover.edu/project.html

 

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm#General

 

History of the United Kingdom Primary Documents   http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook  http://www.fordham.edu.halsall.sbook.html

 

Middle East Peace Process Documents   http://www.mideastweb.org/history.htm

 

Penn Library: Government Treaties   http://www.library.upenn.edu/resources.subject.govnment/treaty.html

 

United Nations Treaty Collection   http://untreaty.un.org/English/treaty.asp

 

University of Texas Historical Maps   http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html

 

Victoria Research Web: 19th-Century Britain  http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/

 

World History Archives  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html

 

World War 1 Document Archive   http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi

 

World War 11 Documents http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

 

 

SPECIFIC EVENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN HISTORY

 

          

 

American Posters of World War I  http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm

 

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology   http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

 

Avalon Project at Yale Law School – World War II Documents  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

 

Black History: Primary Source Links  http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/blackprimary.html

 

Civil War Women—Primary Sources http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

 

Dr. Seuss Went To War (A collection of Political Cartons) http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/

 

Gulf War: An Oral History http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/

 

Historic Government Publications of World War II  http://worldwar2.smu.edu/

 

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive  http://jarda.cdlib.org/

 

New Deal Network  http://newdeal.fri.org/

 

North American Slave Narratives  http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html

 

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art of World War II  http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.ht

 

Private Art (Letters to and from the home front—WWII)   http://www.private-art.com/

 

Rutgers Oral History Archive of World War II  http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm

 

Salem Witchcraft Papers http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcrft/texts/

 

Suffragists Oral History Project http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/online/suffragists.html

 

They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II  http://www.pbs.org/theydrewfire/

 

Veterans’ History Project http://www.loc.gov/folklife.vets/

 

World War I Document Archive  http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

 

War Poster Collection  http://content.lib.washington.edu/warposters/

 

World War I Images http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/1Images/

 

World War I Trenches on the Web   http://www.worldwar1.com/

 

World War II Documents http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/




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