Humanities & Teacher Education

Primary Historical Documents

General Websites

American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

Audio/Visual World History Archive
http://www.earthstation1.com

Avalon Project of Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Demography Statistics
http://opr.princeton.edu

Historical Text Archive

http://historicaltextarchive.com/

History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html/html

ICONS Research Library
http://www.icons.umd.edu/reslib/reslib

Internet Archive of Texts and Documents
http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Military History
http://lcweb.loc.gov

New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org

NOW Homepage
http://now.org/now/home.html

Primary Source Materials
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html#cat1

Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/other.repositories.html

Television News Archive (Vanderbilt)
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu

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United States History

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/

University of Oklahoma: U.S. Historical Documents
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/#pre

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Colonial and Revolutionary America

The Papers of George Washington
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/index.html

Thomas Paine
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Women and the American Revolution
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html

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United States: Early National Period

Constitution of the United States
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

Early U.S. Period
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook26.html

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Civil War and Reconstruction

Nineteenth Century America
http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/specoll/19thcentdocs/index.html

Civil War
http://www.civilwar.com

Civil War Archives
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow2.html

Civil War Documents
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/civilwar.html

Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

First-Person Narratives of the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn

Images of African Americans from Nineteenth Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences, and Manuscripts
http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/letters/

Selected Civil War Photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

Slave Narratives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

Furman University: U.S. 19th Century Documents
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/

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United States: 1877-1920

Documents of World War I
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww1.htm

W.W.I Propaganda Posters
http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/usa.htm

Primary Documents Relating to World War I
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/index.htm

WWI Documents
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

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United States: 1920-1952

Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.mhrcc.org/fdr/fdr.html

Great Depression Photographs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

Historical Government Publications from WWII
http://worldwar2.smu.edu/

Japanese-American internment during World War II
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/documents/wcca.html

New Deal Domestic Policy
http://newdeal.feri.org/

WWII Primary Documents
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIDocs.htm

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United States Since 1952

Cold War
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm

Korean War
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/

Martin Luther King Public Speeches
http://www.toptags.com/aama/voices.htm

Psychedelic 60s
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html

Vietnam Documents
http://www.cpv.org.vn

Vietnam Images
http://www.geocities.com/~nam_album

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History of California and the Pacific Coast

California and Chinese Relations
http://www.cetel.org/docs.html

California First-Person Narratives
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

California Gold Rush
http://www.malakoff.com/goldcountry/history.htm

California History
http://www.calhist.org

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Westward Movement in the United States

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html

The Journals of Lewis and Clark
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/toc.html

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History of American Political Parties

Political Science Resources
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psusp.html

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Diplomatic History of the United States

Cold War International History Project
http://www.cwihp.org

Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Documents
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/diplohm.html

Documents Related to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm

Foreign Relations of the United States Series
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html

Military Affairs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/milhm.html

National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia.html

WWII Primary Documents
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIDocs.htm

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European History

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

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Middle Ages

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Middle Ages
http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#ma

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

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Renaissance and Reformation

Reformation Europe
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html

Italian Renaissance
http://history.hanover.edu/early/italren.htm

Protestant Reformation
http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html

Catholic Reformation
http://history.hanover.edu/early/cath.html

Selected Works of Martin Luther
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html

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The Enlightenment Era

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Enlightenment
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook10.html

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French Revolution and Napoleon

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html

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Nineteenth Century Europe

Nineteenth Century Western Europe
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook24.html

Nineteenth Century Britain
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook20.html

Nineteenth Century Austria and Germany
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook22.html

Nineteenth Century Italy
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook23.html

Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook25.html

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Europe in the Twentieth Century

Nazi and East German Propaganda
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

The Romanovs
http://alexanderpalace.org/palace/index.html

WWWI Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi

WWII Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

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German History (English translations available)

History of Germany Primary Documents
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html

Karl Marx
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/marx.htm

Socialism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook33.html

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French History (English translations available)

French and Indian War
http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/docs/docframe.html

History of France: Primary Documents
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/france.html

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History of England: To 1485

History of United Kingdom: Primary Documents
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html

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History of England: The Tudor and the Stuart Periods, 1485-1715

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Anglo/

British History Primary Documents
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/

History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html

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Native American History

Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/cherokee.htm

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

Treaties Between the United States and the Native Americans
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/ntreaty.asp

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Latin America: National Period since 1800

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Twentieth Century Latin America
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook55.html

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History of the Ancient World

Ancient Greece and Rome
http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#ancient

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Asian History

Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html

Japan
http://history.hanover.edu/eastasia/japan/Japan.html

China
http://history.hanover.edu/eastasia/china/china.html

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Africa

Internet African History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html

Africa Since 1945
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook53.html

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Middle East

Persian Gulf War Diaries
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=16

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Institutional History

Restoration Movement
http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/restmov.html

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