Primary Sources
"A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event" (libguides.utpb.edu/primarysources).
National Archives Websites
DocsTeach. http://docsteach.org/
Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/
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National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/
Office of the Federal Register. http://www.ofr.gov/
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General Websites
State Historical Society of Iowa. https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets
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Avalon Project. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
eHistory. http://ehistory.osu.edu/
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Eyewitness to History. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Global Gateway. http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html
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History Reference Center. http://web.b.ebscohost.com/hrc/search/basic?sid=78b6e9ae-2a61-4b5b-a6e0-8ddd601e7fc1%40sessionmgr107&vid=0&hid=107
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Images from Life Magazine. http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Historical Text Archives. http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php?op=viewlink&cid=6
News Reels. http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels
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American Primary Sources
100 Milestone Documents in American History. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone
American Speeches. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
Awesome Stories. http://www.awesomestories.com
Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Digital Library on American Slavery. http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/
The FBI Vault. http://vault.fbi.gov/
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
History Matters. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Letters from Wars. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html
The Library of Congress American Memory Project. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The Mitchell Archives (archives of historical newspapers).http://mitchellarchives.com/category/colonial-america
Mountain West Digital Library. http://mwdl.org/
Science Service. http://scienceservice.si.edu/
Smithsonian Source: www.smithsoniansource.org
United States Patent and Trademark Office. http://www.uspto.gov/
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Early American History
Archiving Early America. http://www.earlyamerica.com/
The American Revolution Resources. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History/The-American-Revolution.html
George Washington. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/w/george-washington.html
Native American Links. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History/Native-American-History.html
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Civil War Resources
The Civil War. http://www.civilwar.com/
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Virginia in the Civil War. http://www.virginiacivilwar.org/legacy/
The 1920s-1930s
The New Deal Archives. http://newdeal.feri.org/
America in the 1930s. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
World War I
World War I primary sources. http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
World War II
US in World War II. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Reference/World-War-II.html
The US Presidents
The American Presidency. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
The Papers of George Washington. http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/
The John Adams Library. http://www.johnadamslibrary.org/
The Lincoln Archives. http://www.lincolnarchives.us/
The John F. Kennedy Library. http://www.jfklibrary.org/
Lyndon B. Johnson Library. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/dictabelt.hom/highlights/Highlightpage.asp