Primary Sources
This is a compiled list of websites to be used for both American and World History. *Note: Our online databases ProQuest Historical New York Times and other databases can be used to find primary sources.
- AMDOCS - Documents for the Study of American History
- American Memory Collection - Library of Congress
- American Presidents - The History Channel
- American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- Chronology of U.S. historical documents - The University of Oklahoma College of Law
- Documenting the American South - North American Slave Narratives
- Documenting the Old South - First Person Narratives of the Old South
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
- EyeWitness to History
- In Motion: African-American Migration Experience
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project-Fordham University
- Legal Information Institute @ Cornell Law School - Court opinions, Constitiutions and Codes
- Library of Congress
- National Archives
- Our Documents
- OYEZ - U.S. Supreme Court Media
- Presidential Libraries of the National Archives
- Secession Era Editorials Project - 19th Century Documents
- Smithsonian Learning Lab
- Talking History.org
- Valley of the Shadow - examines two communities in the American Civil War
- Virginia Center for Digital History
- White House Historical Association
- World Digital Library