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Category Archives: Primary sources
Discovering American Women’s History Online
http://cdm15838.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/women Based at Middle Tennessee State University, this valuable database gives interested parties access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, and so on) that document the history of women in the United States. Visitors can browse the … Continue reading
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Digital Images of Primary Materials
Sometimes you will have an assignment that requires you to use primary materials for your research and that can require some digging. However, libraries, archives, and historical societies have done a great deal of work to make these resources accessible … Continue reading
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Nevada Test Site
Image via Wikipedia Nevada Test Site Oral History Project http://digital.library.unlv.edu/ntsohp/ Based at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project is “a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons … Continue reading
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Monastic Matrix
Image by wallyg via Flickr Monastic Matrix http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/ One of the aims of the Monastic Matrix website is to disseminate research to both lay people and scholars about the “participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval … Continue reading
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Van Gogh Letters
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 … Continue reading
Primary Docs in American History
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)
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Primary source on UN conferences
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 … Continue reading
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Launched Today
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.
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Marine Media Library
The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library contains video clips and high-resolution still images which can be searched and downloaded for public use.
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Nixon tapes
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 … Continue reading
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