History+Primary+Source+Material

=//**What is a primary source?**//= =//A primary source is first hand evidence. It was there at the time of an event. It is contemporary to the period being studied. Examples of primary sources are speeches, letters, songs, legislation, court decisions, journals/diaries, memoirs, interviews, artifacts, autobiographies, and photographs. Interviews are primary sources, but the person being interviewed must have WITNESSED the event.// =

You can't get an "A" on your IB Extended Essay without at least ONE primary source!

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 * Book Sources:**

Fullerton Union HS Alexandria Catalog
Sonora HS Alexandria Catalog

Troy HS Alexandria Catalog
Write down call number, browse shelves, check out material!


 * Citation:**

[|CHICAGO STYLE CITATIONS.doc]


 * More About Primary Sources:**
 * [|net.TUTOR: History Research]
 * [|Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources | University Library]
 * [|Benchmarks of Historical Thinking]
 * [|Historical Thinking Matters: home page]
 * [|Medieval Sourcebook: Why Study History Through Primary Sources]
 * [|ALA | Using Primary Sources on the Web]
 * [|Our Documents - 100 Milestone Documents]
 * [|Bowdoin College Writing Guide - Patrick Rael]fantastic writing guide for research papers = good for IB History EE
 * [|Navigating Primary Sources - Kathy Schrock - pdf]
 * [|Kathy Schrock's Home Page - Navigating Primary Source Materials on the Internet]


 * Sources for Primary Sources:**
 * [|Links to Document Sources]
 * [|Show Us the Data]The most wanted federal government documents
 * [|Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions - list of links]list of links
 * [|National Archives: For Educators and Students]
 * [|Library of Congress Flickr Collection][|Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web]
 * [|Discovering American Women's History Online]
 * [|Calisphere - a world of primary sources and more]
 * [|American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page]


 * United States Primary Sources:**
 * [|World War I Document Archive]
 * [|Sophia Smith Collection - Voices of Feminism Oral History Project - Introduction]
 * [|The University of Oklahoma College of Law: A Chronology of US Historical Documents]
 * [|A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873]
 * [|THOMAS (Library of Congress)]
 * [|Smithsonian: Websites A-Z]
 * [|Say It Plain - American RadioWorks: A century of great African-American Speeches]
 * [|Rutgers University Libraries: Digital Library Projects]
 * [|Online Book Catalog - Overview - Project Gutenberg]Online Book Catalog - Listing by Author
 * [|Primary Sources: Home (Yale University)]
 * [|Teaching With Documents]AWESOME analysis worksheets for primary sources!!!!!!
 * [|Regional Oral History Office]
 * [|Furman University: 19th Century Documents]
 * [|NYPL Digital Gallery | Home]
 * [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Archives]
 * [|Basic Search - National Archives]
 * [|National Archives Experience]sooooo cooool! You can create a poster or a movie using a collection of images and documents from the National Archives. Amazing - shows the inter-connectivity of these docs.
 * [|History and Politics Out Loud: a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials]
 * [|Orginal Source Documetns in US History]
 * [|Governing Dynamo - Take a look at some Historic American Rhetoric]complete texts of all US inaugural addresses - uses Wordles to examine content
 * [|FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government]click on "Primary Docs" then "See all"
 * [|EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it]
 * [|Emergence of Advertising in America]
 * [|Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search]
 * [|Primary Resources and Real-World Data]list of links...
 * [|Documents in Early American History]
 * [|Documenting the American South homepage]from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * [|Digital History - University of Houston]
 * [|Core Documents of U.S. Democracy]
 * [|The Constitutional Sources Project]
 * [|Digital Collections at Columbia]
 * [|The Civil War]
 * [|The University of Oklahoma College of Law: A Chronology of US Historical Documents]
 * [|Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights]
 * [|Kennedy | American Pageant - Primary Sources]
 * [|APUSH Web Links-The American Revolution]from historyteacher.net
 * [|Primary Source Sets - For Teachers (Library of Congress)]
 * [|American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse Collections]
 * [|Hypertexts - "We DO American Studies"]
 * [|American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States]
 * [|Browse Ad*Access - advertisements]


 * Event-Specific US History:**
 * [|Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project]
 * [|American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page]
 * [|War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945]
 * [|NEWSEUM: WAR STORIES: war journalists and correspondants]
 * [|Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)]
 * [|They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II]
 * [|Salem Witchcraft Trials]
 * [|Rutgers Oral History Archives]
 * [|Welcome | First World War Poetry Digital Archive]
 * [|Private Art: WWII Letters To and From Home]
 * [|Eyewitness - National Archives]BEAUTIFULLY done! primary_sources narratives! Thomas Jefferson - Onset of French Revolution | JOhn Lewis - Bloody Sunday | Susan B. Anthony at the Voting Polls | George Washington on Bioterrorism | Hindenburg Disaster | Internment of Americans in the Philippines, 1945 | Dachau Concentration Camp | Report from a Hanoi Prison, 1966 | Escape from Slavery, 1862 | Reunification of Germany, 1990 | Herbert Hoover's Last Days in Office, 1933 | Richard Nixon's Last Hours in Office, 1974 | Assassination of Lincoln, 1865 | Assassination of JFK, 1963 | Truman meets Stalin, 1945 | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | Sinking of the USS Cumberland, 1862 | SInking of the Lusitania, 1915 | John Adams' Audience with King George III, 1785 | Pope John Paul II's Visit to White House, 1979 | John C. Fremont, Rocky Mountains, 1843 | Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1894 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, Motor Convoy, 1919 | Crew of Apollo 8, 1968
 * [|KAPPLER'S INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES]event
 * [|Calisphere - JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives]
 * [|Historic Government Publications from World War II]event images
 * [|frontline: the gulf war | PBS]
 * [|From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents]from 1400-present
 * [|Dr. Seuss Went to War]event
 * [|Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet]event
 * [|Primary Sources for the Study of African American History]event - some broken links
 * [|Avalon Project - World War II : Documents]event
 * [|American Slave Narratives]


 * Presidents' Primary Sources:**
 * [|Commission on Presidentatial Debates]presidents
 * [|Nixon White House Tapes]presidents
 * [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Get to the Collections]presidents
 * [|Adams Electronic Archive : Correspondence between John and Abigail Adams]presidents


 * Images, Speeches, Maps,** Cartoons
 * [|YIVO Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe]images
 * [|Michigan State University Libraries - Vincent Voice Library]
 * [|Talking History]oral_history
 * [|Selected Speeches of Abraham Lincoln]speeches
 * [|UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Free Speech Movement]
 * [|UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Black Panthers]
 * [|"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations]
 * [|The History Place - Great Speeches Collection]
 * [|BBC Four - Features A-Z Audio Interviews]audio_interviews
 * [|Free Audio Books - History - Download mp3 and iPod format today!]
 * [|History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Newsearch]
 * [|The NYPL Picture Collection Online]
 * [|Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - UT Library Online]
 * [|World History : HyperHistory]Click on "maps"
 * [|CartoonStock - Cartoon Pictures, Political Cartoons, Animations.]
 * [|By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present]
 * [|AP :: Images :: Home]AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. Browse AP's comprehensive archive with millions of images in entertainment, sports, news, archival and creative content.
 * [|Collections - National Media Museum]
 * [|Flickr: The Library of Congress' Photostream]
 * [|Smithsonian Images: Digital Photography, Printed Pictures, Historic Images, and E-Cards]
 * [|Flickr: Smithsonian Institution's Photostream]
 * [|The NYPL Picture Collection Online]
 * [|World War II Military Situation Maps - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)]
 * [|World War 2 Pictures in Color - WW2inColor.com]
 * [|TIME Magazine Covers - TIME Covers - TIME Magazine Cover Archive]
 * [|PoliticalCartoons.com Homepage]
 * [|American Photography: Persuasion]
 * [|Map Collections Home Page - American Memory]


 * World History Docs:**
 * [|American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank]world_docs american_history speeches
 * [|Man on the Street Interviews - Pearl Harbor Filing Cabinet - Liberty Letters]interviews following the attack on Pearl Harbor
 * [|World War II Resources]world_docs
 * [|Historical Map Web Sites - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online]world_docs
 * [|United Nations Treaty Collection]world_docs
 * [|Repositories of Primary Sources]world_docs american_history
 * [|Education | The National Archives - United Kingdom]world_docs
 * [|Middle East Conflict and Peace Process Source Documents]world_docs
 * [|In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.]world_docs
 * [|Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction]world_docs
 * [|History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents - EuroDocs]world_docs
 * [|Hanover Historical Texts Project]world_docs
 * [|German Propaganda Archive (Guide Page)]world_docs
 * [|EuroDocs]
 * [|Open Collections Program: Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics]world_docs


 * Court Cases:**
 * [|Supreme Court of the United States]court cases
 * [|The Oyez Project | Build 6]court cases
 * [|LII: Supreme Court Collection Home]court cases
 * [|lexisONE® Community | Search Free Case Law]court cases - login is required, registration is free
 * [|Landmark Supreme Court Cases - HOME]court cases
 * [|US Supreme Court Cases & Opinions from Justia & US Court Forms & Oyez]court cases
 * [|FindLaw: Cases and Codes: Supreme Court Opinions]court cases
 * [|Explore GovDocs | MLibrary]court cases
 * [|Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy]court cases