| American Memory Project |
American Memory provides
free and open access through the Internet to written and
spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images,
prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American
experience. It is a digital record of American history and
creativity. The material, from the collections of the Library
of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical
events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape
America, serving the public
as a resource for education and lifelong learning. |
| Connecticut History Online
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Photographs, drawings and prints about
Connecticut History.
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Digital
History |
This
resource, a joint project of University of Houston, Chicago
Historical Society, Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the National
Park Service, provides access to primary sources, multimedia
resources, curriculum based classroom activities, exhibits,
reference works, textbooks and much more. |
| Documenting the American South: Oral Histories of the American South |
This project , by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , offers online exhibits and digital collections including 21 interviews related to environmental transformations that have changed the lives of North Carolinians over the period 1985 to 2000. Users can browse the collection by interviewee and or interviewer. The interviews are distinctive, and include commentaries on the ways in which the construction of a major freeway affected daily lives and another set of participants describe their stories of survival after Hurricane Floyd came through the eastern part of the state. Files can be download ed or users can listen online while following along with a complete text transcript. |
| Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 |
Provides a first-hand look at the history of immigration in the United States from the years 1789 to 1930. Created as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University, this online archive includes approximately 1,800 books, 6,000 photographs, and 200 maps. Users can browse through the records of the Immigration Restriction League and view images at Harvard’s Social Museum, which was established in 1903 to illustrate “problems of the social order.” Very good primary document resource. |
| In the First
Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and
personal narratives |
Index to English
language personal narratives and oral histories, indexing
over 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world.
A resources for historians, sociologist, genealogists,
linguists and psychologist who are interested in exploring
and analyzing the human experience. |
| Making of America (MOA) |
A digital library, contributions from Cornell University Library's to Making of America (MOA), of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts. |
| National Archives |
The website preserves
and makes accessible archival documents and materials created
in the course of business conducted by the United States
Federal Government. |
| National Archives - United
Kingdom |
The website preserves and makes accessible
archival documents and materials created in the course of
business conducted by the United Kingdom Government. |
| North
American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories |
A
unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to
America and Canada. With a goal of including more than 100,000
pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets,
autobiographies and oral histories, this resource provides
a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. |
| Project Vote Smart Historical Documents |
This site provides access to the full-text of major U.S. historical documents such as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as well as historic speeches, including the inaugural addresses of all U.S. Presidents. Provides links to other historical resources and directories. |
| The
World War I Document Archive |
TheBringham Young University Libraries
created this archive of primary documents consisting of
hundreds of transcribed documents divided into sections
such as diaries, conventions, maritime war and the medical
front. There is a photograph archive that contains over
1800 photographs that document the war. A keyword search
engine is provided within the resource. |
| Valley of the Shadows |
The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of the Reconstruction. The archives provides thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County Pennsylvania. |
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