Primary Sources

            Using Primary Sources

Library Research Using Primary Sources:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html

Using Primary Sources on the Web:

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/

Finding Primary Sources

ARCHON: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/

The Historical Manuscript Commission’s gateway to resources for archivists and access to archives and manuscript collections in British history.

In the First Person:  An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives: (http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx)

Repositories of Primary Sources: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

(“A listing of over 5500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.”)

Rutgers University Libraries’ History Resources – American and British

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml

Print Indexes

Essays and General Literature Index (1900-present)

International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965)

New York Times Index (1851-present)

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-present)

Print Resources in the Mantor Library

Dictionary of Historic Documents                                                        Ref. D 9 D525 2003

Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research & Writing       Ref. D 16 B893 2002

The History Highway                                                                            Ref. D 16.117 H57 2002

AHA Guide to Historical Literature  (2 vol.)                                           Ref. D20 A45 1995

The Holocaust Encyclopedia                                                               Ref. D 804.25 H 66 2001

Encyclopedia of the Third Reich                                                          Ref DD256.5 S57

Annals of American History  (18. vol.)                                                  Ref. E173 A793

Public Records Online                                                                         Ref. JK 468 P76 N3 2001

The Sourcebook to Public Record Information                                    Ref. JK 468 P76 S693 2001

New York Times                                                                                  (microfilm)

Websites

Avalon Project: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm 

Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive, in German only): http://www.bundesarchiv.de/

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/exhibitions/homeMemories/index.html

Center for German-Jewish Studies: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/cgjs/frameset/base.htm

Compact Memory: Deutsch-judische Literaturgeschichte im Web (in German only):

http://www.compactmemory.de/

Edition of German Film Censorship Documents 1920-1939: http://www.filminstitut.de/et2tai01.htm

Eugenics Archive: http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/

EuroDocs: http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Foreign Government Resources on the Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies:

http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/homepage.html

German Historical Museum:  http://www.dhm.de/

German Propaganda Archive: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

G-Texts: Primary Source Archives: http://www.h-net.org/~german/gtext/

Interagency Working Group: http://www.archives.gov/iwg/

International Tracing Service (Holocaust records):  http://its-arolsen.org/english/

The Jewish History Resource Center: http://www.dinur.org/resources/?rsID=219

Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz: http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/

League of Nations Photo Archive: http://www.indiana.edu/~league/index.htm

League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/league/

Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/

Nizkor Project: http://nizkor.org/

NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/

Nuremberg Trials Project: http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overview

PSM-Data Bank:  http://www.zum.de/psm/index1e.php

The Provenance Research Project: 

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/provenance/index.asp#a

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation: http://www.vhf.org/

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps.htm

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/

Voice/Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive: http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/

Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home:

http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/

War Poster Collection (University of Washington): http://content.lib.washington.edu/postersweb/

World War II Poster Collection (Northwestern University):

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/

World War II Resources: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

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