Historical Primary Documents  

General Websites of Primary Historical Documents

          American South
          http://docsouth.unc.edu/

          Audio/Visual World History Archive
          http://www.earthstation1.com

          Avalon Project of Yale University
          http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

          Demography Statistics
          http://opr.princeton.edu

          Documents for the Study of American History
          http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

          Hanover Historical Texts Project
          http://history.hanover.edu/project.htm#ma

          Historical Text Archive
          http://historicaltextarchive.com/

          History Channel
          http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html/html

          ICONS Research Library
          http://www.icons.umd.edu/reslib/

          Internet Archive of Texts and Documents
            http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html

            Internet History Sourcebooks Project
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

            Military History
            http://lcweb.loc.gov

      New York Public Library
            http://www.nypl.org

            NOW Homepage
            http://now.org/now/home.html

            Primary Historical Sources, Longman Pub
            http://longman.awl.com/history/primarysources_2.htm

            Primary Source Materials
            http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html#cat1

            Repositories of Primary Sources
      http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/other.repositories.html

            Television News Archive (Vanderbilt)
            http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu

            U.S. Historical Documents Archive
            http://www.ushda.org/

WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
            http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/

United States History

          American Memory
            http://memory.loc.gov/

            Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
            http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html

            University of Oklahoma: U.S. Historical Documents
            http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/#pre

            History: United States
            http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/e-texts.html

            From Revolution to Reconstruction
            http://odur.let.rug.nl/usanew/D/

            Primary Source Documents
            http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

Colonial and Revolutionary America

            The American Colonist’s Library
            http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

            The Papers of George Washington
            http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/index.html

            Thomas Paine
            http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/

            U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
            http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

            Women and the American Revolution
            http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html

United States: Early National Period

            Constitution of the United States
            http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

            Early U.S. Period
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook26.html

Civil War and Reconstruction

            Nineteenth Century America
            http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/specoll/19thcentdocs/index.html

            Civil War
      http://www.civilwar.com

            Civil War Archives
            http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow2.html

            Civil War Documents
            http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/civilwar.html

            Civil War Women
            http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

            First-Person Narratives of the American South
            http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/fpn.html

Images of African Americans from Nineteenth Century
            http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

            Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences, and Manuscripts
            http://www.morrisville.edu/library/local_history/sites/letters/

            Selected Civil War Photos
            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

            Slave Narratives
            http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

            Furman University: U.S. 19^th Century Documents
            http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/

United States: 1877-1920

            Documents of World War I
            http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww1.htm

            W.W.I Propaganda Posters
            http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/usa.htm

            Primary Documents Relating to World War I
            http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/index.htm

            WWI Documents
            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

United States: 1920-1952

            Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
            http://www.mhrcc.org/fdr/fdr.html

            Great Depression Photographs
            http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

            Historical Government Publications from WWII
            http://worldwar2.smu.edu/

            Japanese-American internment during World War II        
            http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/documents/wcca.html

            New Deal Domestic Policy
            http://newdeal.feri.org/

            WWII Primary Documents
            http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIDocs.htm

United States Since 1952

            Cold War
      http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm

            Cold War Experience
            http://www6.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/docs1.html

            Korean War
            http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/

            Martin Luther King Public Speeches
            http://www.toptags.com/aama/voices.htm

            Psychedelic 60s
      http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html

            Vietnam Documents
      http://www.cpv.org.vn

      Vietnam Images
            http://www.geocities.com/~nam_album

History of California and the Pacific Coast

            California and Chinese Relations
            http://www.cetel.org/docs.html

            California First-Person Narratives
            http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

California Gold Rush
            http://www.malakoff.com/goldcountry/history.htm

California History
      http://www.calhist.org

Primary Documents from California History
            http://bob.ucsc.edu/ref/california.html

Westward Movement in the United States

            Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html

The Journals of Lewis and Clark
            http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/toc.html

            Oregon Trail
            http://www.isu.edu/~trinminch/00.n.trailarchive.html

History of American Political Parties

            Political Science Resources
            http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psusp.html

Diplomatic History in the United States

            Cold War International History Project
            http://www.cwihp.org

            Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Documents
            http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/diplohm.html

            Diplomatic History Index
            http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/coas/history/sarantakes/stuff.html

Documents Related to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War
            http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm

            Foreign Relations of the United States Series
            http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html

          Military Affairs
            http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/milhm.html

            National Security Archive
            http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia.html

WWII Primary Documents
            http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIDocs.htm

European History

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/

Middle Ages

            Internet Medieval Sourcebook
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

            Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
            http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/medren.html

            Middle Ages
            http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#ma

            The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
            http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Renaissance and Reformation

            Reformation Europe
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html

            Italian Renaissance
            http://history.hanover.edu/early/italren.htm

            Protestant Reformation
            http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html

Catholic Reformation
            http://history.hanover.edu/early/cath.html

Selected Works of Martin Luther
            http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html

The Enlightenment Era

            Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Enlightenment
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook10.html

French Revolution and Napoleon

            Internet Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html

            Napoleonic Code
            http://www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/code.cfm

Nineteenth Century Europe

            Nineteenth Century Western Europe
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook24.html

Nineteenth Century Britain
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook20.html

            Nineteenth Century Austria and Germany
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook22.html

            Nineteenth Century Italy
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook23.html

            Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook25.html

Europe in the Twentieth Century

            Nazi and East German Propaganda
            http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

            The Romanovs
            http://alexanderpalace.org/palace/index.html

            WWWI Document Archive
            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi

            WWII Documents
            http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

German History (English Translations Available)

            History of Germany Primary Documents
            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html

            Karl Marx
            http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/marx.htm

            Socialism
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook33.html

French History (English Translations Available)

            French and Indian War
            http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/docs/docframe.html

            History of France: Primary Documents
            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/france.html

            Napoleonic Code
            http://www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/code.cfm       

History of England: To 1485

            History of United Kingdom: Primary Documents
            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html

History of England: The Tudor and the Stuart Periods, 1485-1715

            Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
            http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Anglo/

            British History Primary Documents
            http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/           

            History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
            http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html

History of England: 1715 to Present

            Victorian Texts
            http://65.107.211.206/victorian/books/victorian.html

Russian History (English Translations Available)

            Russian History 1905-1930
            http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/1905-30.html

Native American History

          Alcatraz Island Occupation
             http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/alcatraz/

Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia
            http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/cherokee.htm

            Christopher Columbus Journal
            http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

            Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
      http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

            Native American Experience
            http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/

Treaties Between the United States and the Native Americans
            http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/ntreaty.htm

Latin American History

The Colonial Era to 1800

Latin America: National Period Since 1800

            Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Twentieth Century Latin America
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook55.html

History of Ancient World

          Ancient Greece and Rome
            http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#ancient

Asian History

            Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html

            Japan
            http://history.hanover.edu/eastasia/japan/japan.html

            China
            http://history.hanover.edu/eastasia/china/china.html

Modern Asia Since 1850

Africa

          Internet African History Sourcebook
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html

            Africa Since 1945
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook53.html

Middle East

          Persian Gulf War Diaries
            http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php/op=listarticles&secid=16

Institutional History

          Restoration Movement
            http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/restmov.html