United States History: Primary Sources Online

General Sites

U.S. Topics

Oral History

Census/Maps

Images

Tutorials

United States General Sites

The following sites covers wide ranging time periods and/or topics within United States History

AMDOCS (Virtual Library) American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement American Memory Project (Library of Congress) Avalon Project (Yale) Chronology of US Historical Documents (Oklahoma) Foreign Policy Documents (Ferraro) Historical Documents (Thomas) Hypertext on American History Hypertexts (U Virginia) Making of America (UMichigan) Nineteenth Century Documents Project

U.S. Topics

The following web sites deal with specific topics, chronological periods, or events

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African-American Women: Online Archival Collections (Duke) AVPA Jamestown Recovery Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (Sallie Bingham Center) DiscoveryWeb Documenting the American South DoHistory Free Speech Movement Digital Archive Kappler's Indian Affairs: Treaties National Baseball Hall of Fame Primary Sources Native American Documents Project Native American - U.S. Treaties (Avalon Project) New Deal Network Public Papers of the Presidents (George H.W. Bush, William J Clinton, George W. Bush Slave Narratives (Federal Writers' Project Virtual Jamestown Virtual Vietnam [War] Archive (Texas Tech University) Women's History Research Guide Digital Collections of Primary Sources Women's Travel Writing World War I Document Archive WWII Resources

Oral History

The following sites related to oral history cover broad time periods and or specific topics within United States History

Oral History Projects By Subject (OHA) Rutgers Oral History Archive of World War II Suffragists Oral History Project Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories

Images

The following web sites offer images - mostly photographs - from various time periods in American history.

AdAccess (Duke) African American Mosaic (LC) Images in Political History

Census/Maps

The following web sites feature maps created in the past or indicating detail of past events and United States Census data.

Historical Maps of the U.S. (UTexas) Indian Land Cessions Map Collections (American Memory) United States Historical Census Browser

Tutorials for Using Primary Sources

The following web sites include descriptions of primary sources, suggestions for using them for research and/or in the classroom.

DoHistory Historian's Sources: American Memory Project Digital Classroom (NARA) Library Research Using Primary Sources (Berkeley) Yale University Primary Resources Research

For additional information or suggestions contact: Kathryn Wagnild Fuller, History Librarian University of Minnesota Duluth     726-7829    kfuller@d.umn.edu Revised February 2008

Indexes and Databases: History