Secondary sources are materials that compile and reference original sources to describe and analyze past events. Textbooks are considered secondary sources, as are scholarly research articles and books written after an event, by someone not directly involved in the event.
Eyewitness accounts by explorers, native americans, missionaries, traders, settlers exploring North Americ, ca. AD 1000 to 1800 from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
National Library of the United States and Congress. Prints, photographs, sound archives, and other e-resources) from all time periods and countries. Includes three popular collections:
Digital archive to historical documents, maps, sound recordings, and images.
Digital Newspaper Project: U.S. Newspapers--many small town--to 1922.
The umbrella collection for the two above, this links to the Library of Congress's many historical collections.
Collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world. Also contains secondary sources; filter on the left for primary sources specifically.
Includes Presidential letters collections, collections focusing on marginalized groups, and many other collections.
Access to NYT articles from 1851 to present. Sign up for a free subscription through Marian University Libraries here.
Includes America's founding documents, as well as collections on American topics, places, and people.
Includes more than 2,000 documents curated around six crucial phases of the U.S. Black freedom struggle.
Includes documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience
Contains primary and secondary sources created by Black Americans.
Focuses on legal and government documents. Contains primary and secondary sources.
Non-profit library that includes primary and secondary sources.
Hagley's collections document the interaction between business and the cultural, social, and political dimensions of our society.
History and Public Policy Program: includes primary and secondary resources.
Texts, images, audiofiles on history, literature and culture, colonial period to include the beginnings of the twentieth century. From the University of North Carolina Library.
Historical sources for Ancient History, Medieval Studies, and Modern History.
Digital library of 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles in American social history, antebellum period through Reconstruction. From the University of Michigan.
Features online primary source materials for educational program DocsTeach, and online exhibits. Also guides to archival collections in regional depositories (Atlanta, Georgia, is NARA’s Southeast Regional Repository). For more information, see http://www.archives.gov/education/research/primary-sources.html
Archives, Digital collections and more from the NYPL: Historical maps, illuminated manuscripts, prints and photographs. Includes texts and images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The Digital Library Collections contain exhibitions, digitized books (many on the history of science and technology), papers from the Bureau of American Ethnology BULLETIN.
Search vital, cultural, military, court, land, medical, civil war, and criminal history records.
A digital archive containing more than one million items related to the culture and history of Indianapolis.
Search vital, cultural, military, court, land, medical, civil war, and criminal history records.
Collections include photographic, institution, military, historical, naturalization, and court records.
more than 75,000 digital images that are available for research,
Links to digital collections from academic libraries, public libraries, historical societies, museums, and archives in the state of Indiana.