History: Primary Sources

Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.

Most of the material is free, but some is not. See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/premium-content for a list of material that is NOT free. We have access to some of that subscription material in State Papers Online

The CPI inflation calculator uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.

Guides provide a gateway to the Library of Congress collections. Links are provided to digitized content, when available.

Includes digital collections on advertising, culture, photography, and many more subjects.

Includes a calculator for determining historical exchange rates.

Searching is free but there may be a fee to download records.

The National Archives catalog searches across archival descriptions, digitized and electronic records, authority records, and web pages from Archives.gov and the Presidential Libraries. The catalog contains archival descriptions for 95% of the National Archives holdings and over 90 million digitized copies of records.

A directory of repositories and collections of primary source material across the United States and the United Kingdom; it includes the entire National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).

Contains descriptions of collections from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives worldwide.

The most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts in libraries and collections all over the world.

A database listing materials, including archival and manuscript materials, from thousands of different libraries.

Includes repositories in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Alaska.

Descriptions of archival collections, preserved and made accessible by Arizona repositories.

Access to over 1,000,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Hawaii, Wyoming and other parts of the U.S. West.

More than 200 contributing institutions.

Archival collections in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming.

Descriptions of the rich archival, manuscript, and museum collections in repositories across the state available to the public.

Library of Congress site including some digitized newspapers and a directory of newspapers published 1690-present.

Portal to libraries, museums, and archives across the United States.

Access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

A multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East.

The purpose of EHPS is to provide an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe.

UC San Diego library's guide.

Provides and organize texts for use in classroom situations. This site focuses on online texts, which, for the most part, means public domain texts translated more than 75 years ago.

Provides access to a union catalog of millions of digital resources including: digitized books and articles, born digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets

Allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.

From C&RL News.

Primary source materials at the state level.

Links to materials, including primary sources, about the Holocaust.

A compilation of state and regional digital projects and collaborations.

VoS's mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

From C&RL News

A good starting point / overview of doing research at the U.S. National Archives.