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The Historian’s Handbook defines
a primary source as one that "gives the words of the
witnesses or the first recorders of an event. Primary
sources include manuscripts, archives, letters, diaries, and
speeches." They
can also be photographs, audio or video recordings; original
records created at the time historical events occurred or
well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories.
These are frequently materials that document the
attitudes and popular thought of a historical time period.
Here are just a few of the Primary
Source resources that the Framingham Public Library has in
its collection and a sample of what is available online.
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| REF Y940.2 Renaissance |
Peggy Saari and Aaron Saari,
editors |
Renaissance and Reformation. Primary sources |
| REF Y973.9 American; 5 vols. 1910-1979 |
Cynthia Rose, editor |
American decades primary sources |
| Y970.004 Indigenous |
James D. Torr, editor |
Indigenous peoples of North America: primary sources |
| REF 909.07 2001. Middle |
Judson Knight |
Middle ages. Primary sources |
| REF Y940.3 Pendergast |
Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast |
World War I primary sources |
| REF Y940.53 World |
Barbara C. Bigelow |
World War II : primary sources |
| REF Y973.2 Colonial |
Peggy Sarri |
Colonial America : primary sources |
| REF Y306.362 Slavery |
Judson Knight |
Slavery throughout history. Primary sources |
| REF Y973.2 Copeland |
David A. Copeland. |
Debating the issues in colonial newspapers : primary documents on events of the period |
| REF 973 Annals vols. 1-18 |
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The Annals of America |
| REF 973 1994 100 |
Peter B Levy, editor |
100 Key documents in American Democracy |
| REF 973 Commager; vols. 1 & 2 |
Henry Steele Commager, editor |
Documents of American history |
| REF Y973 United |
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Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives |
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American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
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The Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Documents in Law, American History and Diplomacy
The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government
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Making of America
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://www.nypl.org/digital/
A searchable database presenting tens of thousands of digital images from The Library's collections including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and more.
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Repository 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
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Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
100 Milestone documents in American history – from the National Archives
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Digital Scriptorium - AdAccess
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/browse.html
A huge database of advertisements compiled by Duke University from the U.S. and Canada from 1911-1955
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American Journeys
http://www.americanjourneys.org
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later
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EuroDocs
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu
Primary historical documents from Western Europe
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Archiving Early America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
An array of primary source material from 18th Century America
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WW2 Resources
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/
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Museum of Tolerance - Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/
Holocaust related resources
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Websites change! Please email us if you
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