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Megan Burlington, Library Media Specialist , Archivist
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Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or could also be memoirs and oral histories of past events.
The internet has helped to make many of these sources widely available, some of the best sources are:
American Memory Project of the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The Avalon Project of Yale University
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
Digital History of the University of Houston
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/other_documents/other_documents.cfm
Digital Public Library
http://dp.la/
EuroDocs
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Hathi Trust
http://www.hathitrust.org/
Internet Archive
http://archive.org/
Making of America
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
World Wide Web Virtual Library
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
Don't forget about our campus-wide subscription to the New York Times: from 1851-present.
For more information on using and evaluating primary sources on the web, visit the ALA:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/index.cfm