Historical+Primary+Sources+Online

=The following is an extensive list of historical primary sources that are available online. It was compiled by Megan Blair and presented at the 3rd Workshop.=


 * An extensive list of websites related to different aspects of Australian History (divided by theme) can be accessed here.

** American History Sources – General **

 Gilder Lehrman Institute, Battle Lines: Letters from America’s Wars (conflicts from the Revolution to the Iraq War)  []

WGBH American Experience: Watch Online [|www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/online][|Films][|/]

 Internet Moving Images Archive []

 Library of Congress American Memory (American history across many areas) []

 Documenting the South (various collections, incl. North American Slave Narratives; North Carolinians and the Great War; Oral Histories of the American South – some civil rights material here; the Southern Homefront, 1861-1865) []

 The Presidents (film and documentary sources) []

 The American Presidency Project (includes documents, audio and visual archival materials) []

 Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States []

  George Mason University    , Center for History and New Media [] (see also GMU’s History Matters, [] ).

** American History Sources – Up to and including the Nineteenth Century ** The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (the American Civil War – before, during and after) []

 Crisis at Fort Sumter (causes of the American Civil War) []

 American Journeys (exploration and settlement) [|http://www.americanjourneys.org]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Africans in America (covers the period from 1450-1865) []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (slavery) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The Geography of Slavery in Virginia []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Lincoln/Net [] <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Harper’s Weekly (digitised and searchable; most of this requires a subscription, but there are some excellent free features) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains – Online Image Database [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Making of America (primary sources in 19th century American social history) []

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** American History Sources – Twentieth Century ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Cuban Missile Crisis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.hpol.org/jfk/][|cuban][|/]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Avalon Project/Cuban Missile Crisis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> New Deal Network []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> American Literature, Music and Movies, 1920-1929 []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Avalon Project/Cold War []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Harry S. Truman Library and Museum []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Cold War International History Project []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project (includes some oral histories, some 1920s material) []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Documenting the American South: Oral Histories/Civil Rights Movement []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Documenting the American South: Oral Histories/Consumerism and Consumer Desire <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> World War One Document Archive <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|http://wwi][|.lib.byu.edu/]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> First World War.com (Multimedia history of World War One) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] - see also US posters at []

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Photos of the Great War <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Brief History of World War Two Advertising Campaigns <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Avalon Project: World War Two documents <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pictures of World War Two <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Australian History Sources **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Picture Australia  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> []

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Australian Studies Resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Australian War Memorial Online Exhibitions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> National Archives of Australia Documenting a Democracy (Federation) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 (includes cases concerning aborigines) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> []

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> PANDORA (Australian archive of digital publications. Results can be mixed, so this site takes patience). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> []

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> National Library of Australia Digital Collections <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Reason in Revolt: Source Documents of Australian Radicalism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> National Foundation for Australian Women: Women’s History/Australian Women <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] (Digital documents section)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Australia’s Prime Ministers (biographies without documentary sources, but does offer useful ‘research maps’ that indicate which document collections will be of use in your search) []

<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Virtual Reading Room (Vrroom) at the National Archives <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

** General History: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">H-Net, the Humanities and Social Sciences Online, is a series of bulletin boards run from Michigan State University. Its ‘  <span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public.’ The lists cover a plethora of history topics: consider joining (it’s free) at [].

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note that an open access Yahoo Groups discussion forum has been set up where these links are available and where you may all swap ideas about how best to use sources like these (and add more suggestions of your own). It’s called onlineresourcesSAHT (web address ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|http://groups.yahoo.com/group/][|onlineresourcesSAHT] ). You will need a Yahoo account to post. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Casahistoria]: This is a great page for all areas of history. Particularly useful for IB students as covers most of the 20th Century topics. It has lots of primary and secondary sources as well as sound and video clips. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Internet Modern History Sourcebook:]Lots of primary and secondary sources. Links on the page to other source books for African, Asian, Women's and Classical History (and more)