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== = = = //What is a primary source?// = = //A primary source is first hand evidence. It was there at the time of an event. It is contemporary to the period being studied. Examples of primary sources are speeches, letters, songs, legislation, court decisions, journals/diaries, memoirs, interviews, artifacts, autobiographies, and photographs. Interviews are primary sources, but the person being interviewed must have WITNESSED the event.// = > > ** Sources for Primary Sources: ** > > > ** United States Primary Sources: ** > > ** Event-Specific US History: ** > > > ** Presidents' Primary Sources: ** > > ** Images, Speeches, Maps, ** Cartoons > > ** World History Docs: ** > > ** Court Cases: **
 * ** More About Primary Sources: **
 * [|net.TUTOR: History Research]
 * [|Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources | University Library]
 * [|Benchmarks of Historical Thinking]
 * [|Historical Thinking Matters: home page]
 * [|Medieval Sourcebook: Why Study History Through Primary Sources]
 * [|ALA | Using Primary Sources on the Web]
 * [|Our Documents - 100 Milestone Documents]
 * [|Bowdoin College Writing Guide - Patrick Rael]fantastic writing guide for research papers = good for IB History EE
 * [|Navigating Primary Sources - Kathy Schrock - pdf]
 * [|Kathy Schrock's Home Page - Navigating Primary Source Materials on the Internet]
 * [|Links to Document Sources]
 * [|Show Us the Data]The most wanted federal government documents
 * [|Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions - list of links]list of links
 * [|National Archives: For Educators and Students]
 * [|Library of Congress Flickr Collection][|Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web]
 * [|Discovering American Women's History Online]
 * [|Calisphere - a world of primary sources and more]
 * [|American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page]
 * [|World War I Document Archive]
 * [|Sophia Smith Collection - Voices of Feminism Oral History Project - Introduction]
 * [|The University of Oklahoma College of Law: A Chronology of US Historical Documents]
 * [|A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873]
 * [|THOMAS (Library of Congress)]
 * [|Smithsonian: Websites A-Z]
 * [|Say It Plain - American RadioWorks: A century of great African-American Speeches]
 * [|Rutgers University Libraries: Digital Library Projects]
 * [|Online Book Catalog - Overview - Project Gutenberg]Online Book Catalog - Listing by Author
 * [|Primary Sources: Home (Yale University)]
 * [|Teaching With Documents]AWESOME analysis worksheets for primary sources!!!!!!
 * [|Regional Oral History Office]
 * [|Furman University: 19th Century Documents]
 * [|NYPL Digital Gallery | Home]
 * [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Archives]
 * [|Basic Search - National Archives]
 * [|National Archives Experience]sooooo cooool! You can create a poster or a movie using a collection of images and documents from the National Archives. Amazing - shows the inter-connectivity of these docs.
 * [|History and Politics Out Loud: a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials]
 * [|Orginal Source Documetns in US History]
 * [|Governing Dynamo - Take a look at some Historic American Rhetoric]complete texts of all US inaugural addresses - uses Wordles to examine content
 * [|FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government]click on "Primary Docs" then "See all"
 * [|EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it]
 * [|Emergence of Advertising in America]
 * [|Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search]
 * [|Primary Resources and Real-World Data]list of links...
 * [|Documents in Early American History]
 * [|Documenting the American South homepage]from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * [|Digital History - University of Houston]
 * [|Core Documents of U.S. Democracy]
 * [|The Constitutional Sources Project]
 * [|Digital Collections at Columbia]
 * [|The Civil War]
 * [|The University of Oklahoma College of Law: A Chronology of US Historical Documents]
 * [|Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights]
 * [|Kennedy | American Pageant - Primary Sources]
 * [|APUSH Web Links-The American Revolution]from historyteacher.net
 * [|Primary Source Sets - For Teachers (Library of Congress)]
 * [|American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse Collections]
 * [|Hypertexts - "We DO American Studies"]
 * [|American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States]
 * [|Browse Ad*Access - advertisements]
 * [|Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project]
 * [|American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page]
 * [|War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945]
 * [|NEWSEUM: WAR STORIES: war journalists and correspondants]
 * [|Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)]
 * [|They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II]
 * [|Salem Witchcraft Trials]
 * [|Rutgers Oral History Archives]
 * [|Welcome | First World War Poetry Digital Archive]
 * [|Private Art: WWII Letters To and From Home]
 * [|Eyewitness - National Archives]BEAUTIFULLY done! primary_sources narratives! Thomas Jefferson - Onset of French Revolution | JOhn Lewis - Bloody Sunday | Susan B. Anthony at the Voting Polls | George Washington on Bioterrorism | Hindenburg Disaster | Internment of Americans in the Philippines, 1945 | Dachau Concentration Camp | Report from a Hanoi Prison, 1966 | Escape from Slavery, 1862 | Reunification of Germany, 1990 | Herbert Hoover's Last Days in Office, 1933 | Richard Nixon's Last Hours in Office, 1974 | Assassination of Lincoln, 1865 | Assassination of JFK, 1963 | Truman meets Stalin, 1945 | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | Sinking of the USS Cumberland, 1862 | SInking of the Lusitania, 1915 | John Adams' Audience with King George III, 1785 | Pope John Paul II's Visit to White House, 1979 | John C. Fremont, Rocky Mountains, 1843 | Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1894 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, Motor Convoy, 1919 | Crew of Apollo 8, 1968
 * [|KAPPLER'S INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES]event
 * [|Calisphere - JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives]
 * [|Historic Government Publications from World War II]event images
 * [|frontline: the gulf war | PBS]
 * [|From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents]from 1400-present
 * [|Dr. Seuss Went to War]event
 * [|Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet]event
 * [|Primary Sources for the Study of African American History]event - some broken links
 * [|Avalon Project - World War II : Documents]event
 * [|American Slave Narratives]
 * [|Commission on Presidentatial Debates]presidents
 * [|Nixon White House Tapes]presidents
 * [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Get to the Collections]presidents
 * [|Adams Electronic Archive : Correspondence between John and Abigail Adams]presidents
 * [|YIVO Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe]images
 * [|Michigan State University Libraries - Vincent Voice Library]
 * [|Talking History]oral_history
 * [|Selected Speeches of Abraham Lincoln]speeches
 * [|UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Free Speech Movement]
 * [|UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Black Panthers]
 * [|"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations]
 * [|The History Place - Great Speeches Collection]
 * [|BBC Four - Features A-Z Audio Interviews]audio_interviews
 * [|Free Audio Books - History - Download mp3 and iPod format today!]
 * [|History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Newsearch]
 * [|The NYPL Picture Collection Online]
 * [|Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - UT Library Online]
 * [|World History : HyperHistory]Click on "maps"
 * [|CartoonStock - Cartoon Pictures, Political Cartoons, Animations.]
 * [|By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present]
 * [|AP :: Images :: Home]AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. Browse AP's comprehensive archive with millions of images in entertainment, sports, news, archival and creative content.
 * [|Collections - National Media Museum]
 * [|Flickr: The Library of Congress' Photostream]
 * [|Smithsonian Images: Digital Photography, Printed Pictures, Historic Images, and E-Cards]
 * [|Flickr: Smithsonian Institution's Photostream]
 * [|The NYPL Picture Collection Online]
 * [|World War II Military Situation Maps - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)]
 * [|World War 2 Pictures in Color - WW2inColor.com]
 * [|TIME Magazine Covers - TIME Covers - TIME Magazine Cover Archive]
 * [|PoliticalCartoons.com Homepage]
 * [|American Photography: Persuasion]
 * [|Map Collections Home Page - American Memory]
 * [|American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank]world_docs american_history speeches
 * [|Man on the Street Interviews - Pearl Harbor Filing Cabinet - Liberty Letters]interviews following the attack on Pearl Harbor
 * [|World War II Resources]world_docs
 * [|Historical Map Web Sites - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online]world_docs
 * [|United Nations Treaty Collection]world_docs
 * [|Repositories of Primary Sources]world_docs american_history
 * [|Education | The National Archives - United Kingdom]world_docs
 * [|Middle East Conflict and Peace Process Source Documents]world_docs
 * [|In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.]world_docs
 * [|Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction]world_docs
 * [|History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents - EuroDocs]world_docs
 * [|Hanover Historical Texts Project]world_docs
 * [|German Propaganda Archive (Guide Page)]world_docs
 * [|EuroDocs]
 * [|Open Collections Program: Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics]world_docs
 * [|Supreme Court of the United States]court cases
 * [|The Oyez Project | Build 6]court cases
 * [|LII: Supreme Court Collection Home]court cases
 * [|lexisONE® Community | Search Free Case Law]court cases - login is required, registration is free
 * [|Landmark Supreme Court Cases - HOME]court cases
 * [|US Supreme Court Cases & Opinions from Justia & US Court Forms & Oyez]court cases
 * [|FindLaw: Cases and Codes: Supreme Court Opinions]court cases
 * [|Explore GovDocs | MLibrary]court cases
 * [|Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy]court cases

Sites from University of California, Irvine; History Day 2012 > > == Overviews == >>
 *  American Memory A digital record of American history from the Library of Congress.
 *  Calisphere Photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
 * The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, & Gov't Includes documents dating back to Ancient Greece but the emphasis in on European and U.S. history from the 18th-21st centuries
 *  Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection From American Memory. Includes transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their experiences, motivations, critiques, personal analyses, and private thoughts.
 *  Internet Archive Search: Moving Images Contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons. Example: footage of the San Francisco earthquake (1906).
 *  LIFE photo archive Collection of newly-digitized images owned by LIFE dating back to the 1750s. Eventually will include 10 million images.
 *  National Archives' Docs Teach Resources for teachers and students.
 *  Smithsonian Insitution Collection's Search Center Search for images, videos, sound files and more from the Smithsonian.
 *  Ad Access Print ads "for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
 *  AdViews AdViews is a digital archive of television commercials (1950s to the 1980s). Need iTunes to watch.
 * Quiz yourself: Geographical features of the U.S.
 * [|US History interactive map] (self-guided quiz)
 * American People (Longmans textbook), [|maps]
 * [|Story of US] (History Channel movied based on Joy Hakim's series)
 * [|Reviews of more than 1,000 Web sites on American history] (outstanding resource)
 * [|Digital History] (U.S. history; includes a full online textbook of US history - high-school+ reading level)
 * [|America's Story] (From America's Library) (Library of Congress)
 * [|Digital Docs in a Box]
 * [|Meet Amazing Americans]
 * [|American Memory Timeline] (Library of Congress)
 * [|A biography of America]
 * [|Who made America?] (PBS) (bio's of inventors)
 * [|Primary Resource Sets (Library of Congress)]
 * [|Documents teach](National Archives)
 * [|Herb: Social history for every classroom]
 * [|American Social History Project] (Center for New Media, CUNY)
 * [|Public domain photos] (1,000+ images on Flickr, from Library of Congress)
 * [|Edison sound recordings] (voices of Edison, WJ Bryan, and others)
 * [|American Memory] (Library of Congress; primary sources organized by topic)
 * Smithsonian's [|History Explorer]
 * [|American Social History Online]
 * [|History Matters: Many Pasts](George Mason)
 * [|From Slavery to Civil Rights] (sources on African-Americans from Library of Congress)
 * [|Making of America](digital versions of 10,000 books and 50,000 articles written in 19th century U.S.)
 * [|Teaching History.org (US history sources)]
 * [|US History resources] (this AP history site has excellent resources for any student of US history)
 * [|United States from Revolution to Reconstruction] (history of U.S.)
 * [|Picturing America]
 * [|Internet Archive: Audio] (200,000 public domain recordings)
 * [|Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach [U.S. History]]
 * [|EASE](collection of images for teaching and comparing events)
 * [|Agricultural History Primer] (very informative); [|Living Farm Museum]
 * [|US History Videos] (very old, very informative)
 * [|Indigenous Geography](Museum of of the American Indian)
 * [|Gilda Lehrman Institute of American History]; excellent collection of [|primary sources]
 * [|Price of Freedom] (war in American history - interactive display)
 * [|U.S. History.org] (Independence Hall Association, includes an online textbook of U.S. history)
 * [|The HistoryMakers](oral histories of accomplished African-Americans)
 * **Special topics**
 * [|Archiving early America]
 * American Revolution (interactive timeline)
 * [|Stories from Pennsylvania History]
 * [|Martha Ballard's Diary] (midwife made famous in book by Laurel Ulrich)
 * [|Slavery in the North]
 * [|Cotton in a global economy] (Mississippi)
 * [|Underground Railway Digital Classroom]
 * [|Morse Code Translator]
 * [|North and South before the Civil War: Interactive Map]
 * [|Civil War Discovery Trail]
 * Civil War: Interactive maps
 * [|Journey through Hallowed Ground] (Gettysburg to Charlottesville)
 * [|Civil War in America] (primary sources and images from the Illustrated London Times)
 * [|Valley of the Shadow] (classroom use of primary sources - Civil War)
 * [|Battles and Casualties of the Civil War map] (excellent map)
 * [|Civil War Trust] (detailed analysis and photos of dozens of battles, with photos)
 * [|Reconstruction](PBS) (includes good primary sources)
 * [|Clara Barton Historic House] (interactive)
 * [|Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship]
 * [|Story of Racism] (video documentary on development of racism and eugenics)
 * [|Rise and fall of Jim Crow] (PBS)
 * [|Take up the White Man's Burden]
 * [|Texas & Impact of Industry]
 * [|Encyclopaedia of US History: Events and Issues 1840-1900]
 * [|Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture]
 * [|Editorial cartoons (Dirksen Center)]
 * [|HarpWeek] (exhibits with post-Civil War cartoons from Harpers Weekly)
 * [|Rise of Industrial America] (Library of America)
 * [|Mining history and artifacts]
 * [|Lattimer Project] (labor history; late 19th century)
 * [|Ellis Island, Interactive Tour]
 * [|Big Apple History] (PBS)
 * [|Immigration](Library of Congress)
 * [|Immigration](interactive, with videos; simulation of coming to America in steerage and arriving at Ellis Island)
 * [|Photos of poor conditions by Jacob Riis]
 * [|Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911] (Youtube); [|Child Labor around 1910] (photos by Lewis Hine) (Youtube); [|The Triangle Factory Fire] (with documents)
 * [|Chinese in California] (Library of Congress; on immigration)
 * [|It's not your nationality, it's what you do] (song recorded in 1916)[[image:http://www.bearishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/robbing-a-bank1.jpg align="right" caption="external image robbing-a-bank1.jpg"]]
 * [|Image collection], including advertising (Roland Marchand)
 * [|Emergence of Advertising in America]
 * [|Early Advertising in the West]
 * [|Advertising] (Library of Congress)
 * [|World War I Posters] (Library of Congress)
 * [|Americans drive Germans past Marne] (NYT article, July 1918)
 * [|Jacob Lawrence: The migration series]
 * [|In motion: The African American migration experience]
 * [|Chicago's 1919 race riots] (documents)
 * [|"Eruption of Tulsa"] (NAACP document, 1921); [|"Now Tulsa Does Care"]
 * [|Documents of the Great Migration: Time is Getting Hard (song);]Seven Letters
 * [|Black History Month: Biographies] (Gale/Cengage); [|Teacher's Guide CD] (all the tracks from CD made for PBS series on the Blues)
 * [|Blues Journey] (videos produced by ArtsEdge/Kennedy Center)
 * [|Old Time Jazz Online]
 * [|Jazz Greats] (PBS KIds)
 * **[|Smithsonian Jazz]**
 * [|1920s radio and newspaper links]
 * [|New Deal Network]; New Deal [|photos]
 * [|Picture This: California perspectives on American history]
 * [|Surviving the Dustbowl (PBS)]
 * [|Great Depression] (background articles in site on poetry of the Depression)
 * [|Great Depression cartoons] (2 parts, critical of government meddling)
 * [|Surviving the Dustbowl] (PBS movie)
 * [|Dear Mrs. Roosevelt] (letters from children)
 * [|War Relocation Camps of World War II]
 * [|Densho Project] (Japanese internment; oral histories)
 * [|Japanese-American Internment: Ansel Adams Photographs]
 * [|Herblock's History (political cartoons)]
 * **Interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr.**
 * [|Meet the Press: Roy Wilkins, NAACP, and Martin Luther King, Jr.] (interview with MLK days before the March 1963 March in Washington)
 * [|Martin Luther King, Jr.: Look Here] (1957 interview with Morton Agronsky; King reflects on nonviolence and the lessons of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott)


 * [|Finishing the Dream] (original NBC TV clips about the civil rights era)
 * [|If it were my home] (statistical comparisons between U.S. and other countries)
 * [|State-by-state unemployment statistics, 2009-2010] (interactive)