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Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters
http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/
The letters written by Vincent Van Gogh have appeared many times before, but this is the first time they have appeared as part of a complete digital edition. This fascinating collection was created by the Van Gogh Museum and the Huygens Institute, and the letters were edited by Leo Jansen, [...]

What library could possibly be a better resource for primary documents in American History than our own Library of Congress?
1763-1815 (The American Revolution and the New Nation)
1815-1860 (National Expansion and Reform)
1860-1877 (Civil War and Reconstruction)

United Nations Diplomatic Conferences
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/diplomaticconferences/index.html
The United Nations has been involved with eight significant diplomatic conferences since their creation in 1945. Diplomatic conferences of this type serve as the traditional method for the negotiation of treaties, and there were a number of notable examples of such conferences decades before the United Nations, including the Hague Conferences of [...]

The World Digital Library has been launched today.  The World Digital Library (WDL) provides significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world in a variety of languages.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library contains video clips and high-resolution still images which can be searched and downloaded for public use.

Nixon Tapes
http://www.nixontapes.org/
A number of organizations have offered the general public selections from the secret tapes made by President Richard Nixon between 1971 and 1973, but the Nixon Tapes project under the direction of Professor Luke A. Nichter at Texas A&M University-Central Texas aims to bring together a complete online audio archive of all the tapes [...]

The United States Holocaust Museum has produced a podcast series called “Voices on Antisemitism“.  This series contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, judges, and scholar Matthias Kuntzel.

Looking for primary sources on the French Revolution?  This digital collection from the University of Alabama library system has over 170 pamphlets from the French Revolution which includes writings by Desmoulins, Danton and Robespierre.

History Matters offers some excellent resources on U.S. History including primary sources—1,000 documents, images and audio interviews.  It’s also a good place to go to find other “reviewed and annotated websites in American history”.  Use the Advance Search to specify a topic or a primary source type.

In July 2003, the Library of Congress and the national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the British Library (UK), and the Internet Archive (USA) acknowledged the importance of international collaboration for preserving Internet content for future generations and formed the International Internet Preservation Consortium. The goals of the Consortium [...]