Primary Sources Online
Digital Collections

The following are major universities, government projects and private organizations. This is just a small collection of the hundreds of libraries and organizations digitizing primary documents. You can trust libraries and well-known organizations, but be wary of dot-coms.

Table of Contents

Major Digital Collections

Newspapers

Historical Census Information

Other Research Guides

Types of Primary Sources -- Library of Congress
What are Primary Sources -- Yale University

Major Collections

• American Memory Project -- Library of Congress
• American Presidency Project -- University of California Santa Barbara
• American Women's History Online -- Links to major digital collections
• Archive.org -- Many primary documents
• Avalon Project of Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy -- Yale University
• Catalog of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts -- UCLA
• Country studies/area handbooks
• Documenting the American South -- University of North Carolina
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from from Western Europe
• Florida History Digital Collections
• Foreign Relations of the United States -- full text 1861 - 1960 -- information about the collection
• History Sourcebooks Project --Paul Halsall - public domain and copy-permitted historical texts
• Internet Archive
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Full Text Sources -- Paul Halsall
• Japanese Historical Maps
• Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics - full text documents
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Making of America - Cornell University - Includes full text of The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies (1861-1865) and The War of the Rebellion (the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1880-1901)
• National Women's History Project
• OAIster -- A union catalog of digital collections
• Papers of the War Department: 1784-1800
• PALMM Collection - Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials -- Collections of the Universities of Florida
• Perseus Project - Tufts University
• Repositories of Primary Sources -- Collected by the University of Idaho Library
• Rosenberg Spy Case - primary documents presented by City College of New York
• Rutgers Oral History Archives -- World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War
• StoryCorps - The Conversation of a Lifetime -- oral histories from NPR
• University of North Florida Special Collections guide to collections on the Web
• University of Washington Library collection
• Veterans History Project - Library of Congress
• Vietnam Center and Archive -- Texas Tech University
• World Digital Library -- Unesco's online archive of significant artifacts and manuscripts from 30 collections around the world.
• World War I Document Archive - Assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).

Newspapers

Digitized and Online

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers -- Information & FAQs
• Google News Archives -- Information & FAQs
• New York Times

Newspapers on Microfilm in the UNF Library

• Newspapers in the UNF Library
• Timeline of newspapers in the UNF Library

Examples of Print Indexes to Newspapers on Microfilm

• New York Times Index -- Call number AI21 .N44 -- How to us the print index.
• Times Index (Times of London) -- Call number AI21 .T42 -- Online index covers 1906 to 1980. Print index begins with 1785

Historical Census Information

• United States Historical Census Data Browser

Other Research Guides

• Craft of the Historian
• Evaluating Electronic Resources
• Evaluating Internet Resources
• Finding Primary Sources in the UNF Library using the online catalog.
• History Research Links.
• How to Find Book Reviews.
• How to Find Both Sides of the Story.
• How to Find Movie Reviews.
• What is a Refereed Article?
• What is an Academic/Scholarly Journal