PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS

Gale Student Resources in Context - An excellent source for criticism of poetry and literature, and primary source documents for History.

Gale Global Issues in Context - Perspectives on international news and events.

World Book Online  - Most encyclopedia articles link to primary source documents and periodical articles.

Milestone Documents - There are many FREE documents on this paid site.

Only 2 Clicks - Links to 20 Primary Source web sites, mostly in American History.

Internet Public Library - Online newspapers from around the world.

American Memory - Internet Resources - U.S. History - Pathfinder linking to U.S. History Internet resources by chronological period. Includes primary and secondary resources.

American Memory - Internet Resources - World History- Primary and Secondary Resources

Avalon Project - Documents from law and diplomacy.

Canadian Constitutional Documents - National and provincial government documents.

Peel’s Prairie Provinces Newspapers - Western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies.  As of Fall 2010, Peel contains approximately 7,500 digitized titles and over 35,000 newspapers. 

Peel’s Prairie Provinces Images - providing an extraordinarily diverse picture of the Prairie experience.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use.

Making of America - a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) - Digital documents, maps, photos and more.

National Constitution Center - How the Constitution works.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery - Provides access to over 300,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.

The National Security Archive - Includes a wealth of information on the Cold War, including transcripts of the full interviews conducted by CNN for its Cold War series, many declassified documents, reviews, and more.

U.S. Historical Documents - Chronological list of documents.

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project at the Brookings Institution - contains a wealth of information on the trillions of dollars spent in the name of the cold war. The site includes numerous links to press and other sources, and the full text of Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940.

WWW-VL History Central Catalogue - Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, the oldest catalog on the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself, in 1991. It is run by volunteers who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; Not the biggest index of the Web, the VL is considered among the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

Dewey Browse - Web sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12.  See 900-999 for History Primary Source Documents.

Harrisburg Academy History Primary Source Links Page