Volunteer Voices

Tennessee Resources

• Digital Collections from Tennessee Libraries, Archives, and Museums
• Tennessee Online
• Frank. H. McClung Museum Collection, UTK
• 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 (18^th 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 (18^th 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

• Dear Home - Letters From Home - WWII - The History Channel
• A-bomb museum (1945)

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

Citation Information

• Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
• The Columbia Guide to Online Style
• Dartmouth Guide to Sources
• APA Style Guide - Electronic References
• OWL at Purdue - MLA Style Electronic Sources