LibGuides: Library Resources for H236: Primary Sources on the Web

Free Primary Sources on the Web

American Memory
Provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. (Collections from the Library of Congress, Historical Collections for the National Digital Archive.)

Early Americas Digital Archive
A collection of electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.

Harvard Open Collections Program
History Matters (Geroge Mason University)
A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence.

Making of America (Cornell University)
A searchable collection of primary sources in American social history, primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The resource is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. See Making of America Journals (University of Michigan) for related resources.
Making of America (University of Michigan)
A searchable collection of primary sources in American social history, primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The resource is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. See Making of America Journals (Cornell University) for related resources.

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