HIS 4310 Senior Seminar: Primary Sources for 20th century American history

FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES

National Archives (Dept. of State)

National Archives Research Tools

National Archives: ALIC

AAD from NARA

U.S. Dept. of State Office of the Historian

National Security Archives, George Washington University

Government Printing Office Federal Digital System

What can be found through FDSys

Archives & Records Management Section, United Nations

LOC homepage

LOC: American Memory collections home

LOC digital collection Theodore Roosevelt films

LOC: Presidents of the United States Resource Guides

LOC American Memory Diplomatic & Foreign Policy digitized files

Smithsonian Institution: Collections Search Center

T. Roosevelt Center

Woodrow Wilson Library

FDR Library

Truman Library

Eisenhower Library

JFK Library

LBJ Library

Richard Nixon Library

Ford Library

Carter Library

Reagan Library

George Bush Library

Clinton Library

George W. Bush Library

from PresidentsUSA.net

Universal Newsreels, archive.org

FedFlix, films produced by U.S. Govt., archive.org

Film plus other media

Iran-Contra Affair, Oliver North Congressional Hearings, 1987, from C-Span

Digital History (chronology & primary sources) from University of Houston

chronology of events about Arctic Sovereignty and the Cold War from Ohio State

biography/chronology of Senator J.W. Fulbright

Yale--Lillian Goldman Law Library--Avalon Project 20th Century digital documents

http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

American Presidency Project

Internet Archive

European History Primary Sources (EHPS)

web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

DPLA: Primary Source Sets

Search UW-Madison Libraries' digital collections

AMDOCS digital documents from U.S. history

curated collections of primary documents from the National Archives

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations - Primary Documents

LOC Veterans' History Project

Labor relations in US, Cold War documents, etc. - NYU Libraries

Air Force Historical Research Agency

35K digitized documents relating to political assassinations/attempts

online exhibition of letters and audio, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq.

The Library of the CIA

FWP: Slave Narratives (LOC AMMEM)

Straight was a photojournalist; documents are from his collection

LOC American Memory: American leaders speak - 1914-1920 years

audio interviews about African American life in the south under Jim Crow laws, from Duke University

Collection of documents still undergoing digitization, from Oregon State

documents WWII Japanese-American internment camp experiences

interviews, etc. from those directly involved in the Manhattan Project

Digitized pamphlets from AHA

Documents about Berlin Airlift

Alger Hiss Trial documents

McCarthy Era - interviews of actors/directors/etc. who were blacklisted

Primary documents about Cold War

papers from 2 reporters who broke Watergate story

digitized documents from the AIM's history and the occupation of Wounded Knee during the 1970s

Oral Histories of Cantigny First Division soldiers from Ball State

CARL Digital Library

congressional report on WMD in Iraq

interviews, etc. from Georgetown U. The site includes more than two hundred episodes from three television series moderated by Dean Krogh between 1981 and 2005: American Interests, World Beat, and Great Decisions (the latter in collaboration with the Foreign Policy Association).

from LOC

digitized comics created by U.S. govt

Digitized papers of Hannah Arendt, from LOC

BGSU University Libraries: 20th century web resources for U.S. History

Cal State Libraries - lists of primary sources sites, etc.

ASU - open access primary sources for U.S. foreign relations

UC San Diego - Primary Resources guide for U.S. history