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• American Primary Source Documents in chronological order from Library of Congress
• Primary Sources from Sonoma State University Library
• Primary Sources and Activities - This page contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.
• On-Line Nineteenth Century Documents - View official documents, letters and diaries, illustrations, song sheets and miscellaneous documents from the civil war era.
• Texts - Primary source documents and transcripts from the Magna Carta to Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I have a dream' speech.
• Science Service Historical Image Collection - A Smithsonian collection that represents twentieth-century scientific research consisting of images and original captions as they appeared in period publications. A 40 year random sample of innovation and invention is provided; which is specific to the subject of electricity.
• The 1900's - America's news and lifestyle headlines from 1900 to 1999 ...plus a century of sound, including songs, speeches, and radio/television broadcasts.
• The Qumran Library - Fragments and translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Digitized Primary American History Sources - Links to libraries, universities and other repositories of digitized sources.
• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents in law, history and diplomacy.
• Historical Recipes of Different Cultures - Included are Medieval and Anglo Saxon recipes, Medieval European recipes and Antique Roman dishes from an old Roman cookbook.
• Museum of Tolerance Online - Special Collections - Documents related to World War II and the Holocaust, in German, English, Hebrew and Polish.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Included are full text sources as well as commentaries.
• History of Ireland - Primary Documents - The site provides links (some of them annotated) to primary documents on Irish history.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections & Archives - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives’ online catalog provides a means for searching and retrieving information for collections in its current holdings.
• The University of Oklahoma Law Center - A Chronology of US Historical Documents.
• Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt - A selection of FDR's fireside chats, from 1933 to 1944.
• Explore The Amazing World of Early America - Links to newspapers, magazines, letters, documents, maps and portraits.
• Voices of the Twentieth Century - Sound clips include Robert E. Peary describes planting the American flag at the North Pole and a radio reporter giving an eyewitness account of the the Allied invasion of Europe.
• Holocaust Photos - Graphic images from the holocaust.
• The American Memory - The Library of Congress' Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
• Photographs of the American West 1861-1912 - Select audiovisual records from the National Archives and Records Administration.
• New Deal Network - A research and teaching resource devoted to the bublic works and arts projects of the New Deal, with a database of photographs, political cartoons and texts (speeches, letters and other historical documents fromt the New Deal.)
• Popular Songs in American History - Tunes(midi files), lyrics, information and historical background of American folk and traditional music.
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution - From the Collections of the Clements Library - Letters, stories about the spies and links to more information.
• Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of over 4000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Near East.
• Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art from World War II.
• Photographic Archives - Map of Middle East with links to archive photographs.
• The Authentic History Center - A collection of authentic primary history sources from American culture, from colonial days through to the 1990s. Included are text and audio documents such as: letters, diaries, political cartoons, and speeches speeches.
• Ad* Access - John W. Harlman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History - The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment 'Library 2000' Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers. and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War - Letters written by Newton Scott, a Private from Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunters from October 1862 through August 1865.
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents for Western Europe - Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations for Western Europe, from Andorra to Vatican City.
• The History Place - Child Labor in America 1908-1912 - Photographs, and the original photo captions, of Lewis W. Hine.
• TeachersFirst.com - Original Documents - Key documents and collections of original text documents dealing with American History.
• NYPL Digital Schomburg - Images of African Americans from the 19th Century - Search for images from categories including the Civil War, Politics, Education and Religion.
• Ourdocuments.gov - Explore 100 milestone documents of American History. Also links to teacher tools and tips for integrating the site into the classroom.
• Dr. Seuss Went to War - A catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss.
• Cornell University Library - Digital Collections - Collections include: A.D. White Collection of Architectural Photographs, Archives of the College of Beterinary Medicine:Historical Photographs Collection, Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection and much more.
• Online Gallery - Turning the Pages - This British Library's site allows you to leaf through 15 great works including the First Atlas of Europe, The History of England in Jane Austen's own hand and the Original Alice by Lewis Carroll