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Primary Sources Article Databases
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MAS Ultra School
Over 500 popular high school magazines. Includes pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of more than 200,000 photos, maps, and flags.
Milestone Documents in American History
A collection of primary source documents that have shaped American history from 1763 - 2003. Full-text as well as an explanation and analysis of the documents are included.
New York Times Historical Newspaper
Articles from the New York Times from 1851 to 2006.
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American Memory
A gateway to the Library of Congress' primary source materials relating to the history and cultures of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Avalon Project
Yale University's law school project of digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
Civil War Photos (dot) Net
Over 1,200 Civil War Images, Photographs and Cartes de Visite.
European History
These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.
Eyewitness to History
Features a collection of personal narratives and firsthand resources compiled by Ibis Communications, Inc. Includes sources from the American Civil War, Medieval Europe, the American West, World Wars I and II and items from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
Harvard Classics - American Historical Documents
The 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts and governmental documents in this collection trace the United States from the settling of the continent to the founding of the country to the Civil War and early 20th century international relations.
History Matters
This feature contains primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history. All of the documents have been screened by professional historians and are accompanied by annotations that address their larger historical significance and context.
John Leech Sketch archives from Punch
These were originally published as "sketches of life and character" and give extraordinary insight into life in those days. cartoons can be accessed by date, keyword or title index.
Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Launched February 1, the project, titled Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas, culminates the University of Arkansas library’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock Central High School crisis of 1957. The website offers access to more than 2,000 pages of documents, photos, broadsides, pamphlets, drawings, cartoons, and other images.
LIFE photo archive (hosted by Google)
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Primary Sources in Government Documents
A guide to primary sources available through Cal State Fullerton's Pollak Library Government Document Collection. Most resources are available online.
Veterans History Project
The Veterans History Project is a collection of personal stories of wartime service of U.S. veterans. Stories are told through interviews, memoirs, personal narratives, diaries, letters, correspondence and photographs. The primary focus is on first-hand accounts of U.S. Veterans from the following wars: World War I (1914-1920) World War II (1939-1946) Korean War (1950-1955) Vietnam War (1961-1975) Persian Gulf War (1990-1995) Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present).
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes significant primary materials available from countries and cultures around the world.
WorldImages
The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
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