LibGuides: History: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

U.S. National Archives Exhibit Hall
Includes documents, records, photographs, drawings, and posters from many aspects of American life. Exhibits include "Powers of Persuasion: Posters From World War II," "Picturing the Century," A New Deal For the Arts," and "The Charters of Freedom."
Library of Congress: Digital Collections
A wealth of archival documents on American people, culture, and history, from the Library of Congress.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
This guide provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
Behind the Veil
A selection of 100 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Harvard Digital Collections
A selection of Harvard Library digital collections including, but not limited to: Immigration to the United States, Bracton on the the Laws and Customs of England, Islamic Heritage Project, Latin American Pamphlet Collection, Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics, and Medieval Manuscripts.
Making of America (MoA)
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. It is a collaborative effort between Cornell and U Of MI, though the collections are currently separate.
Minnesota Reflections
A digital collection of more than 135,000 images, maps and documents from over 150 of the state's cultural heritage organizations.

African American Studies Center
Reference works, articles, primary sources, and images related to African American history and culture.
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. This searchable collection of text and video is a valuable resource for students and scholars researching this period in American history, culture, and politics.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Primary sources and documents related to the history of women in U.S. social movements.
Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820
This archive and database offers documents that explore global conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices.

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