Tennessee History Day
PRIMARY SOURCES



Digital Library Web Sites:

Stanford University
University of California at Berkeley
Library of Congress Digital Library
Humanities Index
The Electric Library
Smithsonian Institute

Directories of Internet Resources in History:

Index of Online Resources for Historians
History Database

Electronic Texts:

Carrie: A full Text Electronic Library
The English Server: E-texts and Primary documents
The Online Library of E-texts
Text & Document: E-historical text and Primary Docs
Historical Text Archive

General History:

Full Text Articles from Popular History Magazines
History and Historiography
Historians and the Web

World History:

Gateway to World History
World Civilization

Africa:

Virtual Library

Universal Black Pages

African Internet Resources

Africa: History

African Sourcebook

Islamic Soucebook
 

Asia:

Virtual Library: Asian Studies

Mao Zedong Internet Library

Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive

Association for Asian Studies

Major Events to Central Asian History

Armenian Genocide

 Armenian National Institute

Australia/New  Zealand

Australian History on the Internet

Australian History Resources

Australian Literary and Historical Texts

Documenting Democracy: Australia’s story

Life on the Goldfields

Local Heroes: an oral history of World War Two

National Library of Australia’s Federation Gateway

Australian Oral History Links

Hidden Histories –oral

Australians at war

Ireland National Archives Online Resources--Australian deportation info.

New Zealand/Maori Genealogy

Ancient and Modern History

New Zealand National Archives

Great Britain

Anglo-Saxton Charters

Sources of British History

The British museum

Tudor England 1485-1603

British War Blue Book, Documents on Entry into WWII

Churchill Speech, Commons 6/4/40

Royal Air Force Histories

Monarchy homepage, links to royal lineage

Hellfire Corner, WWI Site
 

Canada

National Archives of Canada

Europe:

European History Resources

EuroDocs

Eighteenth Century Resources

Medieval Source Book

The Reformation Page

Labyrinth: Medieval Studies

Eighteenth Century

Modern Western Civilization Links

Links to Bronze Age in Europe

Rome Project Site

Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

17th cent. Women Poets

European Historical Texts

Corvinus Library, Hungarian history

Wolf Lewkowicz collection, Translated Letters, Jewish/Holocaust History

Documents on Bosnia

French Electronic Texts

French Revolutionary Pamphlets (French)

Images of the French Revolution, includes texts (Eng)

History of France, primary documents

French texts

Austro-Hungarian primary documents

Marx-Engels documents

Reformation Resources

German Witch-hunt documents

Greece-FYROM dispute

Modern greece primary documents

Robert Bellarmine: Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615

Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615

Garibaldi: Report on the Conquest of Naples, 1860

Documents of Italian unification

Edward Gibbon

Life of da Vinci

Mussolini: What is fascism

Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

King Victor Emmanuel:  Address to Parliament, Rome, 1871

Italy’s Declaration for the Allies, 1915

Italian Primary Documents

Italian History Sourcebook
 

Scandinavia

Database of Norwegian Immigrants

History of Finland

Statistics Norway

Virtual Finland
 

Ireland

Northern Ireland Conflict since 1968

Electronic texts of Irish History

Celtic manuscripts

The ‘Confessio” of Saint Patrick

Irish National Archives, famine documents

Kildare WWI Involvement

16th Irish Division in WWI

history of Dublin

Irish Police Force

Granuail, Irish Pirate

Irish 1937 Constitution

Irish Famine

Irish History links

Irish Primary Documents

Proclamation of 1916: Provisional Government

A View of the Present State of Ireland, 1596

British Views of the Famine

Irish Workhouse Reports, 1840s

Articles on Irish Workhouse Conditions
 
 

Latin America:

Latin American Studies

Resources for Latin America

Historia Argentina (Spanish)

Documents on Mexican Politics

Mexican Archives Project
 

Russia

Moscow State University

Documents in Russian History

Russian Documents in English

Russian History Links (most in Russian)

The Russian Revolution

Russian History

Revelations from the Russian Archives, mostly general histories with images of primary documents (in Russian)

Trotskyite-Zinovievite 1936 trial proceedings

Venona: National Security Agency’s project to decode KGB documents
 

U.S. History:

American Journeys (early American)

American Memory

Harlem Renaissance

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

Conservation Movement Resources

Labor & Business History

Women in Tennessee History -

National American Woman Suffrage

Breaking the Color Barrier: Jackie Robinson

U.S. History Links

Digital Library--History

U.S. History Index

Internet Public Library, U.S. History

Sites for the History Profession

American History Documents

Grolier Online’s The American Presidency

Reference and Research American Studies

U.S. Historical Documents

Historic Audio Archives

From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened After

National Archives

Presidents of the United States

Smithsonian Institution

Historical Census Information

African American History

Classic African American Literature

Multicultural American West

American Ethnic Studies at U. of Virginia

African-American Mosaic

American Slave Narratives

The Atlantic Monthly, African American History

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Story, North Carolina

Documenting the American South

African American e-sources

African-Americans in Science (biography with bibliographies)

John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation

Freedmen and Southern Society project

Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Links

The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project

Montgomery Bus Boycott Page

African Slavery

Black Studies

New York Public Library, Photographs and Maps

Women and Social Movements in the U.S.

American Literature: Writing Black

American Indian Studies

Bureau of Indian Affairs

First Nations Site Inde

Images of Native Americans

Native American Documents Project

Native American Sites

NativeWeb Resources

Avalon Project: Relations Between U.S. and Natives

Internet Public Library: Native American Authors

Sipapu--Resources for Researching Anasazi

Common-place, American Antiquarian Society Journal, Colonial American History

Library of Virginia

Iroquois Oral Traditions

French and Indian War Website

Virtual Jamestown

American Historical Images, Native Americans

Thomas Hariot’s A Briefe And True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

De Bry Copper Plate Engravings—Images of Native Americans

Archiving Early America

Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency

Notes on the State of Virginia

Plymouth Colony Archive Project

The American Revolution

History Online: American Revolution

Boston National Historical Park

Heath Anthology of American Literature

Mount Vernon

Thomas Jefferson Online

Jefferson Digital Archive

Liberty: The American Revolution

Loyalist and British Songs

Monticello: the Home of Thomas Jefferson

OIEAHC homepage

U.S. Army Military History Institute

People of the Revolutionary War

George Washington Papers

The World of Benjamin Franklin

19th Century Documents Project

New York History Net

Democracy in America etext

Founding Fathers

Horace Greeley, Editor of NY Tribune

Lewis and Clark

Documents of the Mexican War

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade

Chronology of the Secession Crisis

Henry David Thoreau

Lewis and Clark Exhibit

Origins of “Uncle Sam”

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the Civil War

War of 1812 etext

Across the Plains in 1844

Amistad Case

Proceedings of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government

Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia

Confessions of Nat Turner

Federalist Papers

A Girl’s Life in Virginia Before the War

Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1850s

A Grandmother’s Recollections of Dixie

Frederick Douglas: Hypocrisy of the American South

The Madison Debates

The Sedition Act of July 14, 1798

Uncle Tom’s Cabin etext

VA Resolution 1798

American Civil War

American Civil War

American Civil War Resources

Civil War Battlefield Medicine

R. W. Burt Letters

Civil War Diaries

Civil War Diary of Bingham Findley Junkin

Samuel S. Dunton Civil War Letters

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

Civil War Women

Letters of the Civil War

Civil War Letters of the Overall Family

Civil War Poetry and Music

Secession Era Editorials

Civil War Photographs

The Shenandoah 1863 Civil War Museum

U.S. Grant Association

Documenting Industrialization in America

Populism

Spanish-American War homepage

World’s Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath

Grover Cleveland

Ulysses S. Grant Homepage

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

The Era of William McKinley

Life and Work of Coal Miners

Haymarket Square

Homestead Strike

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

William Jennings Bryan

Eugene Debs Foundation

Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project

Mother Jones: The Miner’s Angel

Writings of John Muir

Mark Twain

Walt Whitman Homepage

Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women

Spanish-American War

African-Americans in the U.S. Navy

A Historical Perspective of Americans of Asian Indian Origin

Cartoons of the Gilded Age

Native Americans

Vaudeville

New Deal Network

Excerpts from Huey Long’s Autobiography

Excerpts from Huey Long’s Second Autobiography

Eleanor Roosevelt Main Page

FDR Cartoon Archive

Dust Bowl Refugees in California

Voices from the Dust Bowl

Trials of the Scottsboro Boys

Social Security Online

Supreme Court Collection Home

Manuscripts from the Federal Writer’s Project 1936-1940

California Folk Music from the Thirties

Homefront during WWII

Japanese-American Internment

Japanese-American Internment Camps, Documents

Japanese Internment at San Francisco

War Relocation Authority Camps

America From Great Depression to WWII

Rosie the Riveter

San Francisco in WWII

Topaz Camp

What did you do in the war, Grandma?—Oral History of Rhode Island Women on the WWII Homefront

Joe McCarthy: Multimedia Presentation

U-2 Incident of 1960

American Temperance and Prohibition

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

Coney Island

Detroit Publishing Co. Photographs 1880-1920

Digger Archives

Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement

Famous Trials

Emma Goldman Papers

Kennedy Assassination

Tenement Museum

U.S. Presidential Election Maps, 1860-1996

Presidential Speeches

Redstone Arsenal Historical Information

Scopes Trial Home Page

BBHQ: The Sixties Section

The Sixties

Official Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion

Washington Post Watergate Site

Women and Social Movements in the United States

America’s West

California Heritage Online

California Missions Scholars

Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West

Photo Gallery of the American West

Multicultural American West

Overland Main Trail Mainpage

The Silent Westerns: Early Movie Myths of the West

Montana Vigilantes

Who Killed William Robertson?

 Women’s History

African American Women

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

American Women’s History

Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters

A Celebration of Women Writers

Civil War Women

Distinguished Women of the Past and Present

Documents of the Women’s Liberation Movement

Emma Goldman Papers

Feminist Collections

4000 Years of Women in Science

Matilda Joslyn Gage Website

Gifts of Speech: Women’s Speeches from Around the World

Hawaii Women’s Heritage

Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War

Herstory Exhibition

Bayly Art Museum: Power of Woe

International Alliance for Women in Music

Jewish Women’s Archive

Lesbians History Project

Madam C. J. Walker

Medieval Women

Medieval Women Websites

National Women’s Hall of Fame

The Ninety-Nines: Women in Aviation History

Notable Women

Sources for Women’s Studies in the Methodist Archives

Oral History Online: Suffragists

Victorian Women Writers

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women Suffrage Association

Women in America 1820-1842

Biographies of Women Mathematicians

Female Nobel Prize Winners

Early Women Composers and Artists

Women’s Legal History Website

American Women in Uniform

World History

An Artist’s View of World History and Western Civilization

H-World Discussion Network

Global History Sourcebook

Journal of World-Systems  Research

World History Documents

World Cultures

World History Archives

World History Reader

Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation

Conner Prairie Rural History Project

Frontline: the Farmer’s Wife

History of American Agriculture

Special Collections National Agriculture Home Page

The Northern Great Plains

Georgetown’s Rice Museum

Sunshine Harvest Works

History of Computing

History of Computing Information

National Archive for the History of Computers

Virtual Museum of Computing

ECHO Science And Technology Virtual Center

OU History of Science

Internet History Sourcebook

Galileo Project

History of Astronomy

History of Biomedicine

History of Medicine

Natural History Caucus, Special Libraries Association

ChemTeam: Classic Papers Menu

 Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry

 History of Geology

 Women Mathematicians

 Center for History of Physics

 Contributions of Twentieth Century Women to Physics

 History of Cartography

History and Philosophy of Psychology

Resource Guide for Psychology

 Catalogue of the Scientific Community

Faces of Science

 Medieval Science

 Australian Science Archives Project

 Chinese Medicine

 Historical Health Information Locator Service

 Guide to the History of Russian Science

 Technology History

World History Compass

 Internet Society

 Waters of Rome

 Charles Babbage Institute

 Alexander Graham Bell’s Path to the Telephone

 Caltech Institute Archives

 Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

 Henry Ford Museum

History of Chemical Engineering

 IEEE History Center

 MSIM: The Museum of Science and Industry

 NASA’s History Office

 Department of Space History

Science and Technology in the Making

 STS (Science & Technology Society)

 Technology Review

 Totalizator History

Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through the Textile Industry

Anne Frank Center

Anne Frank House

A Cybrary of the Holocaust

Holocaust Education Resource Center

 Holocaust History Project

 Holocaust History

 KZ Mauthausen-Gusen Memorial

 Louisiana Holocaust Survivors

 Holocaust Educational Resource (Nizkor)

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Teaching the Holocaust

 U.S. Holocaust Museum

 Wolf Lewkowicz Collection

 Women and the Holocaust

Law Connections

 Blacklisted

 Encyclopedia of US History: McCarthyism

 The File Room Censorship Archive

 Literature and Culture of the 1950s

 ADL Holocaust Resources

 Civnet Documents

 Greensboro Sit-ins

Wars:

Vietnam Resources

Department of Navy

Holocaust

Voices of the Holocaust

World War I

WWI site (German)

Rutgers Oral History Archives of WWII

WWII Posters

A-Bomb Museum

Actung Panzer: WWII German Military

Atomic Bomb Decision

Battle of Britain Site

Codebreaking  and Secret Weapons in WWII

Dad’s War: Finding and Telling Your Father’s WWII Story

The Air War

German Armed Forces 1919-1945

WWII on the WWW

Imperial Japanese Naval Page

A Marine Diary: My Experiences at Guadalcanal

Battle of Midway

Japanese Army Atrocities: Nanjing Massacre

Naval Air War in the Pacific: Photographs

Normany: 1944

Pacific War: U.S. Navy

Propaganda Leaflets of WWII

The Russian Campaign 1941-45, Photo Diary

Women Come to the Front

The Women’s Army Corps

World at War: History of WWII

WWII Timeline

Resource Listing for WWII

WWII Sound and Image Archive

World War II: North Africa

Race for the Superbomb

The Cold War

The Berlin Airlift

Chronology of Russian History

CIA and Assassinations: Guatemala 1954

CNN: Cold War

Cold War Hot Links

Cold War Museum

Berlin Wall

Costs of the Manhattan Project

Useful Sites on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis and Its Aftermath

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis Chronology

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War

Trials of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Fifty Years from Trinity

For European Recovery: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan

Harvard Project on Cold War Studies

The Berlin Wall

National Security Archive

The Hungarian Revolution

Cuban Missile Crisis

African-American Military History

Air Force Historical Research Agency

Military History

U.S. Army Military History

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms

Federation of American Scientists

Naval History and Photographs

Avalon: Twentieth Century Documents

Warships

Military History—History.About.com

History of Mexico

Philippine-American War (1899-1902)

Spanish American War Homepage

The Aerodome: Aces and Planes of WWI

America’s Secret War (1918-1920)

Australian Light Horse Association

Great War Series

Great War Society

History of the British Army in WWI

Historical Text Archive: WWI

WWI Document Archive

Spanish Revolution and Civil War 1936-1939

82nd Airborne during WWII

Korean War National Museum

Korean War Project

POW/MIAs in Southeast Asia

Vietnam War Internet Project

Arab Israel Conflict in Maps

Israel Defense Forces

Jewish Virtual Library: Wars

Falklands War 1982

Desert Storm Links

Historical Text Archive: Persian Gulf War

Gulf War Photo Gallery

India-Pakistan War

Operation Eldorado Canyon

Operation Just Cause

Operation Safe Border

Grenada

Information Warfare

Military Aircraft Database

Military Woman Homepage

F-16.net: the Ultimate F-16 Reference
 

Psychohistory

The Institute of Psychohistory

Historiography

Virtual Library: History Index

Yahoo Historical Index

American Hypertexts

Library of  Modern Historiography

Historians and Philosophers

Historican Underground: Making History Useful to Life

Internet Classics Archive (experiencing some technical difficulties)

Online Texts Dewey Browse

Liber Liber Online Library (mostly Italian works)

Philosophy of History Archive

Voltaire’s Page

Voltaire Society of America

Historiography of World History

Storia Della Storiographia: History of Historiography

Ten Commandments of Good Historical Writing
 

Historical Population

U.S. Census information

Danish Demographic Database

Historical Microdata Around the World

Historical Sample of the Netherlands

History Data Service

Integrated Public Use Microdata SeriesIntegrated Public Use Microdata Series

Census Bureau
 

Historic Preservation

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Historic Building Survey

Council on Library and Information Resources

Keeping Our Word: Preserving Information Through the Ages

U.S. National Archives

National Parks Service

Research Libraries Group: Diginews

Society of Architectural Historians

World Monuments Fund
 

Urban History

Urban Web Links

U Texas Map Collection

Urban Planning 1794-1918

Urban History Association Links

Ancient History of Athens: Photographs

Waters of Rome

Building the Washington Metro

Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection, Philadelphia 1879

Center for Metropolitan history

Chicago Historical Society

Chicago Image Base

City Sites, essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s

Greenwood’s Map of London 1827

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro

Harlem 1900-1940

Historic Pittsburgh

History of Mumbai, Bombay

Digital Archive of Los Angeles

Jerusalem Studies

LaGuardia and Wagner Archives

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

The Living City: NYC 1860-1920

Monuments and Dust: Culture of Victorian London

Museum of San Francisco

Places in Time in Greater Philadelphia

San Diego Historical Society

Siege of Paris 1870-71

Social Life of Cities

The Urban Landscape: Digital Image Access Project

Virtual Greenbelt
 

Living History

Historical Reenactments

American Longrifle Association

Anglo-Saxon Living History

Association of Living History

Butler’s Rangers

The Costume Page

Elizabethan Costumes

King’s Arms Press and Bindery

Le Poulet Gauche

Medieval/Renaissance Food Page

His Majesty’s 64th Regiment of Foot

Roman Orgy (cooking) Page

Med./Ren. Music and Dance Page

SCRIBE Network
 

Genealogy

Ellis Island Immigrant Search

Ancestry.Com

Family Search Internet Genealogy Service

RootsWeb.com

Center for Life Stories Preservation

Commonwealth War Grave Commission

JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy

All Things Cherokee

U.S. Surname Distribution

Vital Records Info. For U.S.
 

State/National Historical Sites

Canada’s National Historical Site

Alabama Historical Society

Arizona Historical Society

California Historical Society

Connecticut Historical Society

Delaware Historical Society

Florida Historical Society

Georgia Historical Society

Hawaii Historical Society

Idaho Historical Society

Illinois Historical Society

Indiana Historical Society

Iowa Historical Society

Kansas Historical Society

Kentucky Historical Society

Louisiana Historical Society

Maine Historical Society

Maryland Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society

Michigan Historical Society

Minnesota Historical Society

Mississippi Historical Society

Missouri Historical Society

Nebraska Historical Society

Nevada Historical Society

New Hampshire Historical Society

New York Historical Society

North Carolina Historical Society

North Carolina State Library

Ohio Historical Society

Oklahoma Historical Society

Oregon Historical Society

Pennsylvania Historical Society

Rhode Island Historical Society

South Carolina Historical Society

South Dakota Historical Society

East Tennessee Historical Society

West Tennessee Historical Society

Texas State Library

Texas Historical Society

Utah Historical Society

Vermont Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society

Washington State Historical Society

West Virginia Historical Society

Wyoming Historical Society

American Historical Society

History Cooperative

National Council for History Education

National Council for Social Studies

Organization of American Historians
 
 

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Dr. Janann Sherman, Tennessee History Day Coordinator
History Department, 100 Mitchell Hall, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
901/678-2515; Fax: 901/678-2720; sherman@memphis.edu