Sources for Digital Primary
Images
"The past is not dead. It's not
even past." --William Faulkner
* Remember....when
using primary documents or images, always cite your sources!
| Library of Congress
| National Archives | Georgia
Resources | State Digital Libraries |
| Other Digital Collections |
International Resources |
Click
here and
choose FLASH PRESENTATION
to sample the vast resources of the LOC.
Great sources for primary documents:
The LOC has uploaded more than 3,000 photos to its new
Flickr page!
Primary Source
Learning is a collaboration with the LOC and public schools of the Northern
Virginia Partnership to encourage classroom practices that use digital
resources.
The
National Archives is the U.S. Government’s collection of documents that
records important events in American history. View their online exhibits.
The Presidential Timeline of the 20th
Century provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of
digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of
the National Archives.
The FBI’s website for
Freedom of Information Privacy Act
includes an extensive data base of files on famous Americans. These public
documents are useful for students who are looking for information on a famous
person or historical event.
Georgia Resources:
Take a look at these collections:
Visit Georgia's
Virtual
Vault, a web-searchable database that contains electronic images related to
the history of Georgia, from the Georgia Archives, Office of Secretary of State.
The University of Georgia
Hargrett Rare Book
& Manuscript Library is beginning to digitize resources.
Browse the World War poster
collection. (requires DjVu plug-in)
The
Galleries in
The New Georgia Encyclopedia features a selection of images, video and audio
recordings from around our state.
Make use of
United VideoStreaming from Georgia Public Broadcasting.
(Ask your media specialist for the passcode for your school in order to
register.)
The
Donovan
Research Library in Fort Benning has begun to digitize personal narratives
of soldiers from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
State Digital Libraries:
The
New Deal Network is an
educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The New Deal Network is
sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for
Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.
More on the Pack Horse
Librarians can be found at Kentuckiana,
Kentucky's Digital Library. Type pack horse in the search box.
Explore
Calisphere from
the California Digital Library.
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New York |
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Wyoming
Other Digital Collections:
Visit the
Rare Book Room to see some of the
world's greatest books, including Poor Richard's Almanac, the works of
Shakespeare, and a Gutenberg Bible.
The University of Houston's
History Department has designed the
Digital History web site for K-12 American History students.
Documenting the American South is a
digital initiative of the University of North Carolina that provides access to
texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and
culture.
Visit
Smithsonian
Source to download free primary sources and lesson plans from The
Smithsonian Institution.
Find images, video, and
eyewitness accounts at EyeWitness
to History.
The
Gilder Lehman Institute of American
History presents History Now, a
quarterly online journal for history teachers and students, offering essays by
some of the most eminent scholars in the field. Accompanying the scholarly
essays are imaginative and accessible lesson plans and supporting materials,
including an interactive feature, that use primary sources. You can also
search their online
collection.
"I take up my pen": Letters from the Civil War is one of their newest
exhibits.
Access over 450,000 images
in the Digital
Gallery of the New York Public Library.
Browse the
Online Exhibits of the Detroit Public Library. Find the letter Grace
Bedell wrote Mr. Lincoln suggesting a beard!
Far & Wide: The
Golden Age of Travel Posters is but one collection from the
Los Angeles Public Library.
Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers contain all the words, photographs, and
advertisements from selected newspapers published during the pivotal years
before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War.
Wonderful images of
postcards prior to 1940 can be found at
Penny
Postcards.
Old Magazine Articles
contains great primary source covers, articles, and cartoons.
Archiving Early America
contains primary sources from 18th Century America. Take a look at the
short films on famous moments!
View hundreds of images from
American history associated with the PBS series
Freedom: A
History of Us.
History and Politics OUT LOUD is a
searchable archive of politically significant audio materials, such as speeches
by Martin Luther King.
Vintage car ads are a
great way to look back through the decades of the 20th Century.
AwesomeStories presents history as
stories with direct links to the primary sources that make it real. You
must subscribe, but they provide free academic memberships to educators,
including library media specialists and administrators. There is a newsletter
that will come to your email.
The Primary Source
Librarian (Mary J. Johnson) was a Library of Congress American Memory Fellow
in 2000. Her blog contains a wealth of information and many good links.
Don't forget to set up an RSS feed to get newly posted information!
I love the PICTURE OF THE
DAY from American Heritage!
NBC has opened its video news archives to
teachers using HotChalk. They date from the 1930's and include more than
5,000 clips created for K-12 classrooms. A free account is required.
International Resources:
Open the pages of these
great books in The
British Library. (Shockwave plug-in required)
Library of Congress:
Click here for tutorials to help you search!