Primary Source Documents

• American Colonists' Library - Documents pertaining to early American History
• American Experience - PBS site - browse or search
• American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library *Best Primary Source Site
• Atomic Bomb: Decision - Documents on the decision to use atomic bombs in Japan
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School - Documents in law, history and diplomacy, pre-18th century to present
• Civil War Women - Diaries, letters, documents, photographs & prints
• Documenting of the American South - From University of North Carolina, Colonial period to first decade of 20th century
• Documents relating to American Foreign Policy - The Cold War
• Eyewitness to History - History through the eyes of those who lived it
• Famous Trials - Descriptions of 30 famous trials
• Harper/s Weekly Political Cartoons - Cartoons depicting images of American culture in the 1980's
• HarpWeek - American political prints, 1766-1876
• HarpWeek Presidents - Political Cartoons of the Presidential Elections from 1860-1912
• Library Research Using Primary Sources - Compiled by Univ. of California Berkeley Library
• NARA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Rights of American Citizens
• NARA - Digital Classroom - Home page of the National Archives educational section
• National Baseball Hall of Fame - Source on baseball and WWII, Jackie Robinson, the Negro Leagues, and women in baseball
• On-Line Archival Collections - Women - From Duke University, African American Women, Civil War Women, and the Women's Liberation Movement
• Political Cartoons and Cartoonists - Links to a variety of political cartoons in U.S. history
• Primary Sources on the Web - Primary source sites on American and world history
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - Cartoon Archives
• Roosevelt, Theodore - A life in cartoons
• Spy letters of the American Revolution - From the University of Michigan
• The Triangle Factory Fire - Extensive information and documents on this tragic incident
• United States Historical Census Data Browser - Data describing the people and economy of each state and county from 1790 to 1960.
• World War II Poster Collection - A collection of over 300 posters from Northwestern University