NHS Library: JARP: Websites

U.S. History Resources

Digital History
A compilation of primary and secondary sources, timelines, and images from American History organized by topic and era.
Biography of America
An interactive website including maps, diagrams, photographs, primary source excerpts, and secondary sources on American History.
History Matters
Offers first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence, as well as links to web resources.
American Memory from The Library of Congress
A vast collection of primary sources about American History, organized by subject.
American Rhetoric
Database of and index to full text, video and audio versions of speeches, debates, lectures, legal proceedings, and interviews from American history.
Our Documents, The National Archives
Offers 100 milestone documents that chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
University of Oklahoma College of Law
A chronology of US historical documents.
The Price of Freedom, Americans at War
Integrates Flash video and text to examine armed conflicts involving the U.S. from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq.
Newseum
Includes online exhibits focused on editorial cartoons, photography, newspapers and magazines and the role each has played in telling the story of America.
Ted
Links to talks by leaders in technology, entertainment and design.
Pew Research Center
A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Docs Teach from the National Archives
Search over 3,000 U.S history primary source documents and activities.
Media History Digital Library
Digitized collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access.
National Archives
This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States
The Gilder Lehrman Institute
“History by Era” is the Institute’s gateway to our historical content. Each of the ten Eras is divided into thematic Sub-eras, which all follow the same template so readers can move easily from one to another:

Primary Source Websites

Search these collections and databases for Primary Sources!

New York Public Library Digital Collections
Access to almost 800,000 documents - Locate manuscripts, maps, rare prints, photos and more.
National Archives
Over 120,000 digitized documents, including the Declaration of Independence!
Library of Congress
The largest library in the world!!
World Digital Library
Contains over 7,000 items from all over the world.
Life Photo Archive
Find Life Magazine photos from multiple decades.
Massachusetts Historical Society
The Coming of the American Revolution will ground students’ understanding of the facts relating to the events leading up to the American Revolution,
The Library of Congress American Memory Project
Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience
The Historical Text Archive
A database of full-text articles, and links to other digitized primary sources.

Databases with Primary Source Materials

Locating Primary Sources in Electronic Databases

The databases listed below contain primary source materials that are searchable by subject and most are available full text.

World History Reference Center (GALE DB)
History Resource Center offers Full-text and facsimile images for more than 1,400 primary source documents.
Massachusetts HIstory Online (GALE DB)
U.S. History in Context (Gale)
History Resource Center: U.S. provides access to more than 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and more than 65 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
Docs Teach - National Archives
tThousands of primary source documents to from the National Archives including images, maps, charts, graphs, that spans the course of American History