JKM Library: Primary Sources: Primary Sources Online

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General Resources

Making of America
This site contains 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles related to the social history of the United States from the antebellum era through reconstruction.
Digital Public Library of America
An extensive collection of primary sources found within American history, including images and written works.
Internet Archive
A free and open access collection maintained by a nonprofit organization.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Contains written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music covering architecture, landscape, advertising, performing arts, and more.
EuroDocs-BYU
A collection of assembled primary documents related to European history, arranged by time period and nation. All of the links are widely accessible and free web-sites.
Historic Pittsburgh
A collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of Western Pennsylvania
History Matters
Provides links to history websites and useful resources for teaching US history.
NYPL Digital Images
Thousands of downloadable public domain image covering many topics.
Vatican Digital Library
Access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).

The following websites index materials held by thousands of libraries and archives.

Many collection finding aids can be accessed through the repository's website. Several regional repositories are listed here.

ArchiveGrid
Information about many of the archival collections available around the world. Search by topic or by location.
WorldCat
search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Allows users to search a directory of 23,000 American newspaper titles published from 1690 to the present
Google News Archive

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