Primary Resources

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, interviews, artifacts, autobiographies, and photographs.

Ad*Access

Image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements between 1911 and 1955.

https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess

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American Rhetoric

Online speech bank.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

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Avalon Project

Yale Law School Source

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

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Digital Collections: War Posters

https://www.loc.gov/collections/?fa=subject%3Awar+posters

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Electronic Library for Minnesota

Search databases such as Historical Minneapolis Tribune 1867-1922, Minnesota Reflections, ArchiveGrid and more!

http://www.elm4you.org/databases/content/primary

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Eyewitness

History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It

http://ibiscom.com/

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GaleNet Student Research Center Gold

A rich collection of primary sources!

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=SUIC&u=mnkstmichhs

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Glider Lehrman Institute of American History

Podcasts of historians discussing their work, lesson plans, online exhibitions and a searchable database of over 60,000 documents!

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/

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History Matters

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

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Library of Congress

Digital collections: Performing Arts, American Memory, Veterans' History, Prints & Photographs, and International

https://www.loc.gov/collections/

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Media Center