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History - Getting Started

Video Sources

These are excellent resources for primary sources.

Historical photo of the laying down of railroad tracks

Featured Source: RIAMCO

Web Resources - World History

Web Sources

American Journeys http://www.americanjourneys.org/

American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

American Presidency Project at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary.cfm

Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html

Google Books at http://books.google.com/

Internet Archive at http://archive.org/

Jesuit Relations at http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Making of America (Cornell University) http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/

Making of America (University of Michigan) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

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

Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/

Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database at http://slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces  

Women Working, 1800-1930 at http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/

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