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Lafayette High School Media Center
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Primary Source Gateway SitesThese page provides an excellent
portal to primary sources . These can be used for Co-Nect projects,
and other assignments. Useful to both staff and students. American Memory http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ From the Library of Congress, the American Memory
Project is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded
sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress Americana
collections. There are over 70 collections included in the project.
Go to the American memory website and search a particular topic
or browse through the collections. American Studies Web: Historical and Archival Resourceshttp://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp An extensive list of links
to historical studies, archival resources and general history resources
in the field of American history. The American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war A general site on the American Civil War that
includes links to images and photographs from the Civil War as well
as links to important Civil War documents. American Radicalism http://digital.lib.msu.edu/onlinecolls/collection.cfm?CID=1 An online collection of digital texts and images from the American Radicalism collection at Michigan State University. Among the many subject areas included are the Hollywood Ten, Black Panthers, Birth Control, I.W.W., Wounded Knee and Students for a Democratic Society. Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Sponsored by the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, this is an electronic collection that provides access
to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives
on American History and culture. Five different projects make up
the site; Southern Literature; first-person narratives; slave narratives;
the Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; the church in the Southern Black
Community. History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu./home.html More than 144 first-person narratives of average
Americans in extraordinary times. Strong in the WWI period. A project
of the Center for Social History and the New Media, and George Mason
University. Also includes lesson plans from teacher resources in
US History. Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/index.html or http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/ A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text
books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through
reconstruction. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) http://www.nara.gov/nara/searchnail.html Do a “NAIL digest copies search” to find online
images of many NARA documents. Very strong in 20th century
pictures and documents on US themes. The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection http://digital.nypl.org/ In addition to finding aids (guides to archival
and manuscript collections), the NYPL Digital Library Collections
contains texts and images from the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture. World War II Resources http://ibiblio.org/pha/ Primary source materials on all aspects of the war. Collections of online Journals
and Newspapers HarpWeek http://app.harpweek.com/ Full text with illustrations of Harper’s Weekly
from 1857-1865, searchable by keywords, by literary genre, by occupations
and role in society, and browseable by date. Historical Newspapers Online http://historynews.chadwyck.com/ In addition to indexing the Times of London (1790-1980) and The New York Times (1851-1922), this resource enables you to find
the full text of every issue of The
Times (of London) from 1785-1870. Internet Library of Early Journals http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ A joint project of the Universities of Birmingham,
Leeds, Manchester and Oxford to digitize substanital runs of 18th
and 19th century journals. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ Digitized backfiles of some 117 core scholarly
journals , many of which go back to the 1800s. Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/index.html A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
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