Primary Source Web Links

American and British History Resources on the Internet
Arranged by time period.

American Memory from the Library of Congress
The collection finder allows one to search by topic and time period.

American Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resources
contain links to all sorts of resources dealing with this time period.

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Documents in law, history, and diplomacy, arranged by time period, although it does allow one to search.

Digital Libraries & Teacher Resources
Links to sites about and containing primary sources; mainly American.

Eighteenth-Century Resources
The collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world.

EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
The following links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.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). Arranged by country and then chronologically.

Historical Text Archive
Contains links to a variety of primary source materials from all over the world. Advertising can be distracting on this site.

The Making of America: University of Michigan.
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through reconstruction.

National Air and Space Museum

National Archives

National Archives and Records Administration. Digital Classroom.
The National Archives has created a section on their site, The
Digital Classroom, which has a lot of information and teaching ideas using primary source materials.

National Museum of American History

National Museum of Natural History

National Portrait Gallery

Project Gutenberg
Links to full text documents by many famous, long dead people.

Repositories of Primary Sources

Salem Witchcraft Papers
The 1692 Salem Witch Trials: Documents and Participants

Texts and Documents
The Internet Archive of Texts and Documents is organized by geographic area and chronological period. Currently only the Europe, the United States, and East Asia pages are available, and many of the links on those pages are out-of-date. Hanover College students are updating and revising the Europe and United States pages and hope soon to resurrect pages on the Americas Outside the U.S., Africa, The Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia.

U. S. Historical Documents
A Chronology of US Historical Documents from pre-Colonial times to the present day.

U. S. Historical Documents Archive
A chronological list of documents.

The WWW-VL History Index
Arranged geographically and by topic

Yale University Library Primary Sources Research

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Last Updated: 7 Dec 2007