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Primary Source Resources:
Also available OPA Library Skills: Primary Resources
America in Class:
Primary resources from the National Humanities Center
American Memory
Primary resources collections by topic from the Library of Congress
American Museum of Natural History
Photographs and book images
American Presidency Project
Collects the State of the Union Addresses from US Presidents
American Rhetoric
Database and index of 5000+ audio and video of speeches, lectures, etc.
Bartleby's: Inaugural Addressess
The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
Briscoe Center for American History
Digitized collection from The University of Texas Austin
Calisphere A World of Primary Resources
Searchable website of primary resources from the University of California
Digital Utah
Digital collections from around the state of Utah
Duke's Digital Collections
Digitized photographs, documents, texts and more from Duke University Libraries
Euro Docs
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Mountain West Digital Library
A central portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region
National Archives: America's Historical Documents
The National Archive preserves and provides access to the records of the Federal Government
National History Day: Photos, Maps, and Other Images
Research links for photos, maps, and other images
Native American Heritage Month: Digital Collections
List of resource links for Native American collections
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
History, resources and images from NYPL digitized collections
Library of Congress Primary Source Sets
Sets of primary resources related to historical themes
Our Documents
100 Milestones of American History through documents
Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection
Over 200,000 maps from around the world
Smithsonian Folkways
Searchable database of folk songs from around the world
Smithsonian Institution Collection Search
Search over 8.8 million catalog records of museum objects and library and archives materials
Smithsonian Source
Teacher selected resources for teaching American History
Utah's Digital Newspapers
Digital collections of Utah's local newspapers
Yale Daily News
Archive of Yale's College Newspaper
Industrial Revolution:
Primary Sources
Childhood Lost
Child Labor during the Industrial Revolution Primary Sources
The Library of Congress: Industrial Revolution
Primary Source Documents on the Industrial Revolution in the United States
Fordham University
Links about the Industrial Revolution
National Child Labor Committee Collection
Lewis Hines documented the conditions of children working in the US
The Source: Child Labor
Links to sources about Child Labor
Lowell Offering
Magazine written by working women
Cotton Mill Regulations
Regulations of Boston Cotton Mill
No Rest for the Weary: Children of the Coal Mines
Excerpt from "The Bitter Cry of Children"
Songs and Ballads of Coal Miners
From the Archive of Folk Song
Keating Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
Women Working: 1800 to 1930
Primary Resources from Harvard University
The Gilded and the Gritty: America 1870-1912
Resource links from the National Humanities Center
Electronic Books
Communist Manifesto
Written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Book of Household Management
Popular book written in 1861 about managing a house
The Frugal Housewife
Written for women without servants by Lydia Maria Child
Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life in New York 1867
By Horatio Alger popular author of novels
How the Other Half Lives
Studies of the Tenements of New York 1890 by Jacob Riis
Other Eras:
Renaissance
Feudalism
Reformation
Tudor/Stuart England
18th Century
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
French Revolution
Marxism
World War I
World War II
20th Century
Renaissance
Feudalism
Reformation
Tudor/Stuart England
18th Century
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
French Revolution
Marxism
World War I
World War II
20th Century