Primary Sources

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Primary Sources

Primary Source documents were created during or immediately after the event they document. They may be photos, artifacts, speeches, legal documents, etc.

American Memory: Library of Congress 7 million digital items of the U.S.	American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank	American Colonist's Library Historical Works Which Contributed to the Formation of American Politics, Culture, and Ideals
AMDOCS American Documents Organized by Chronological Period	American Hypertexts Class Texts in American History	American Women's History Middle Tenn. State U.
Archiving Early America	Authentic History Center	Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents	CIA: Electronic Reading Room	Core Documents of U.S. History
Digital History: Primary Source Documents	From Revolution to Reconstruction	History Channel Speeches, Video, Audio
History Matters	History Wired	In the First Person
Internet History Sourcebooks Project	Legal Information Institute Cornell School of Law	Librarian's Internet Index Hint: Search for Primary Source + Keyword
National Archives	National Security Archive George Washington U.	New York Public Library Digital Collection
Old Magazine Articles	Our Documents Milestone Docs from National Archives	OYEZ: U.S. Supreme Court Media
Picture History	Presidential Libraries	Primary Sources on the Web Worldwide sources
Rare Map Collection U. of Georgia	Repositories of Primary Sources Worldwide sources
Smithsonian Museum of American History See Collections	Studs Terkel: Conversatons with America	Thomas: Library of Congress Legislative Info
Virtual History Index	Women & Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000

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