Primary Sources by Type

General Documents

• American Presidency Project
• Digital Librarian - Images (links)
• Document Library
• Humanline
• Picture History
• Wisconsin Historical Society

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Artwork

• Picturing America

Cartoons and Comics

• FDR Cartoons
• Great Presidential Puzzle

Catalogs

Conference Proceedings

• 1848 - The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Fall Conference

Diaries

• Wisconsin Historical Society
  

Ephemera

• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera

First-Person Narratives

• First Person Narratives of the American South
• Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

Graphs

• Handsome Atlas

Laws, Treaties and Executive Orders

Letters

• Death of a Solider, 1863
• Plantation Letters

Maps & Atlas

• 10 of the
• Google Mapmania
• Map Collection Harvard
• Map Collections Library of Congress
• Mapping History British Museum
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection University of Texas Austin
• Strange Maps - blog
• Urban Experience in Chicago, 1889-1963

Music

• National Jukebox (music) Library of Congress

Newspapers

• Chronicling America
• HarpWeek - Harper's Weekly
• Making of America
• Utah Digital Newspapers (compare what was happening in Utah with the rest of the US)

Oral History

• iWitness

Patents

Photographs

• Old Pictures

Plays

• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays

Poetry

• Poets.org (example Langston Hughes)

Posters

Recordings

• NixonTapes
• Presidential Recordings Program - Transcript and Audio Clip

Sheet Music

• American Sheet Music: 1820-1860 & 1870-1885
• American Sheet Music: 1850-1920
• American Singing: Nineteeth Century Song Sheets

Speeches and Chats

• American Presidency Project
  • Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats
• American Rhetoric (Top 100 Speeches)
• Bayard Rustin: Freedom Budget (1967): Part 1, Part 2
• March on Washington (1963): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• History Channel Speeches

 

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