Primary Sources
United States History
 

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About This Page You are required to use primary sources for your research assignment. To assist you in finding collections of resources on the World Wide Web and in the Menlo School Library, I have compiled a selective list below. Please add to the list by sending me email (chanson@menloschool.org) or by telling me in class about sources/collections you have found.

For Current Events

The New York Times (free - password required)
S F Gate (San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner)
 
For Any Period in American History
The Smithsonian Institution mega link
Library of Congress mega link
American Memory Collection
Yale Univ. documents collection
University of Oklahoma documents collection
National Archives
 
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Illustrated Guide
Photograph Collections Online (UCR Horus Links)
Online photography exhibits of California History
African American Pamphlets Homepage
Afro America Homepage
Black History
History Net- Eyewitness Accounts
IbisNet - Eyewitness Accounts

For Colonial America and Early Republic

1492 Exhibit
Early America
The World of Benjamin Franklin
Jefferson Online
The Enlightenment in Jefferson
The American Revolution
Hamilton Project
               

       
For 19th Century America
 
Trail of Tears - North Georgia History
American Indians in the Southeast
The Oregon Trail
Education First: Donner Online
American Women, 1800s
American Slave Narratives
Online photography exhibit of Ellis Island immigrants
Jefferson Davis
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
William Tecumseh Sherman
Civil War Poetry and Music
Emperor Norton (US Emperor, 1845)
The Great Chicago Fire, 1877
Alcatraz
Wright Brothers First Flight
Anti Imperialism in the US, 1898-1935
       

For Basic Documents in American History

 

For 20th Century America

 

Andrew Carnegie
Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment
Black Baseball: Negro Baseball Leagues
World War I - Trenches on the Web
New Deal Network
FDR Library & Museum
World War II on the Web
Asia Pacific Region Information
Atomic Bomb Decision
World War Two in Europe
L'Chaim: A Holocaust Web Project
Time Life Photos
Digital Scriptorium - various collections
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Stanford Papers
Webcorp- small video and audio clips: McCarthy, Nixon
 
 

For World History

World History Center
Women in World History
World History links


US History Home Page

History Department Home Page