Other Digital Libraries and Online Resources
Tennessee Resources
- Digital Collections from Tennessee Libraries, Archives, and Museums
- Tennessee Online
- Frank. H. McClung Museum Collection, UTK
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Hoskins Special Collections Library, UTK
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842,
Digital Library of Georgia
Primary Sources on the Web
Recommended General American History
- The National Archives
- Our Documents – 100 Milestone documents
- American Memory - Library of Congress
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Digitized Primary American History Sources
- In the First Person
General American History
- Tennessee History for Kids
- Documenting the American South – UNC University Library
- North Carolina’s Digital database with resources and lesson plans
- Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
- Center for History and New Media
- The Heritage Education Network (THEN)
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- New York Public Library Digital Archives
- The Henry Ford Collections
- University of Michigan OAISTER – Open access index to digital repositories
- Illinois Historical Digitization Projects
- Picturing Modern America 1880 – 1920 – Historical Thinking Exercises for Middle and High School Students
- Portraits of the Presidents and First ladies (1789 – 1992)
- United States Historical Census Data Browser
- United States Newspapers (1600 – 1900)
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents on Law, History, and Diplomacy (18th Century – Present)
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Conventions (1774 – 1789)
Wars and Military Battles (from early history to present)
- U.S. Army Center of Military History
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History – Letter from America’s Wars (Audio & Visual)
- American Experience - War Letters
Sheet Music (with images)
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (1780 – 1960)
- Historic American Sheet Music – Duke University Special Collections (1850 – 1920)
Early America, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812
- Archiving Early America (18th century documents, music, portraits, etc.)
- The Learning Page: The American Revolution, 1763-1783
- The Price of Freedom: Americans At War
- Battle Lines: Letters From America’s Wars
- The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America: Songs of War
- Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library: Rare Map Collection - Revolutionary America
- History through the Eyes of Congress: Soldiers of the Revolutionary War
- Legacies: Collecting America’s History at the Smithsonian
- Pictures of the Revolutionary War
- Galafilm War of 1812 website (contains many maps)
- The Dolley Madison Digital Edition (Letters 1788 - 1836)
Civil War
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- Documenting the American South: The Southern Homefront,1861-1865
- Diaries of Civil War Women
- Selected Civil War Photographs
- PBS - The Civil War
- Primary Sources: Civil War Effects
- CivilWar@Smithsonian: Collections
- American Civil War Collections at the Electronic Text Center
- Antietam National Battlefield Image Gallery
- Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Confederate States of America Documents
- Civil War: Soldiers & Sailors System
- The Civil War Home Page
- The Historical New York Times Project: Chapter 2: The Civil War Years, 1860-1866
- Jump Back in Time: Civil War (1860-1865)
- The Library of Congress: Civil War Maps
- Music of the Civil War
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
- Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
- Making of America – digital sources from antebellum period through reconstruction
Slavery
- American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass
- Slavery Resources Online (1700s - 1800s)
- Third person, First Person: Slave Voices from the rare book, manuscripts, and special collections library (1700s – 1800s)
- African American Perspectives (1818-1907)
World War I
- WWI Document Archive
- First Call - American Posters of World War One from the collection of Roger N. MohovichGeorgetown University Library
- http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm
- American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfhome.html
- Anonymous Diary, September 18, 1918 – July 20, 1919
- http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/veterans/ww1dy1.html
- The First World War – Sources for History – British National Archives
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/
Depression Era
- New Deal Network
- http://newdeal.feri.org/
- The FDR Cartoon Archive (1932-1943)
- http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/fdr.index.html
World War II
The Vietnam War Era
- Veterans History Project
- The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
- Another Vietnam - Photographs
- Communist Propaganda From North Vietnam Project
- In Pictures: Fall of Saigon
- RE: Vietnam - Stories Since the War
- Research in Military Records: Vietnam War
- Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War
- The Vietnam Project
- Vietnam: The Music of Protest
- The Sixties Project (1960 - 1969)
- Documents from the Women’s Liberation movement (1960s - 1970s)
Other Resouurces
- Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
- Internet School Library Media Center Copyright for Educators
- Analyzing Primary Sources
- How To Read A 200-Year-Old Document and Other FAQs