Links to Online Primary Sources by Region

List of Primary Source Web Sites
[USE THE COMMENT LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR SUGGESTIONS FOR NEW LINKS OR TO NOTIFY US OF BROKEN ONES.]

European

BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

“Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier”
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

Early Modern Resources
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/

Women’s Religious Communities, 400-1600
http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/

Digital Medievalist Project
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

World

Library of Congress’s Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html

World History Matters
http://worldhistorymatters.org/

Women in World History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html

United States

Library of Congress — http://www.loc.gov/
American Memory — http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Thomas (Legislative Information) – http://thomas.loc.gov/
Exhibitions — http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/
American Women — http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/

Archive of Public Domain Comic Books
http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1507

American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Archive (U. of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine)

National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/index.html

“Making of America” – Social History Primary Source Collection
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Library of Virginia (aka Virginia State Library)
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/index.htm

Projects at the Virginia Center for Digital History
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php?page=Projects

History Matters — Primary sources in American history
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/

Martha Ballard’s Diary Online
http://dohistory.org/diary/index.html

United States Historical Census Data Browser, University of Virginia
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

History of the American Eugenics Movement
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/

Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/01/yahoo_netrospective_news_headlines_visualization.html

Tennessee State Library and Archives
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/

Historic Diary Excerpts from the Wisconsin Historical Society
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/diary/

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/

Talking History – Oral History Archive
http://www.talkinghistory.org/index.html

UMW Library Guide to Women’s Studies
http://libguides.umw.edu/content.php?pid=240775

WWW Virtual Library of Women’s History
http://www.iisg.nl/w3vlwomenshistory/

Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html

General History Sites

UMW Library’s collection of history links and sources
http://libguides.umw.edu/histamst

Avalon Project (Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Library)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Library of Congress’s Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html

“Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier”
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html

“In the First Person” – Indexing of thousands of letters, diaries and oral histories (not all online)
http://www.alexanderstreet7.com/firp/

Historic Cities: Maps and Documents
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Project Gutenberg – Over 16,000 online books
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Bartleby.com – “Great Books Online”
http://www.bartleby.com/

“Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction on the Web”
http://hnn.us/node/12043

The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
Reference Links

Google Print – Search within thousands of books
http://print.google.com/

Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
http://chnm.gmu.edu/

CHNM Digital History Tools
http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

“Making Sense of Evidence”
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/

The Inflation Calculator
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

Guide to Finding Book Reviews – UMW Library
http://libguides.umw.edu/bookreviews

“Where To Find Free Images And Visuals”
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/01/where_to_find_free_images.htm
Online History Journals

HISTORY NOW from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.historynow.org/

American Historical Association
http://www.historians.org/

Career Information

The American Association for State and Local History’s Career Center
http://www.aaslh.org/jobsonline.htm