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History, US: DBQ Project: Primary Sources

Project

Please send me a message on TEAMS if you need assistance! - Ms. Succi

TIPS: 

  • Search as much as you can for any primary sources for the topic you are interested in BEFORE you come up with your question. It is easier to look at what you can find rather than find a primary source that you need to fit in with your topic. 
  • Search articles about your topic then look up events, laws, speeches surrounding those topics. 
    • ex: What can I find on women in the 1920's? Find events, laws, speeches, important people associated with a movement. Look up THOSE topics to see what primary sources you can find. 
  • Consider expanding your time period: ex: the suffrage movement started in the 1800's. The amendment wasn't ratified until 1919. It didn't go into affect until 1920. 

 

 

Databases: Primary Sources - documents, images, maps, etc....

Gale EBOOKS (GVRL)

  • Search through the History section only: Books to search include:
    • American Decades
    • American Decades Primary Sources
    • The Twenties in America
  • With search results, click "Documents contains images"

College/University LibGuides

University of California - Berkeley: American History Libguide

Southern Connecticut State University: Primary Sources - All topics

Fordham University: American History Primary Sources LibGuide

 

Some resources are free or websites that you will be able to access. 

Topic Specific Resources

Library of Congress: Civil War images

  • Click on "Collection Items" (next to "About this collection"). Use "Refine your results" to narrow your search. 
  • Included here are maps of the whole United States, maps of major regions such as the Eastern or Southern States, maps showing all or parts of more than two states, and maps of the Mississippi River. State maps are also included, with maps of specific battles, cities and towns, and natural features listed alphabetically under each state.

National Archives: WWII / America on the Homefront

UMKC School of Law - Professor Douglas O. Linder: Famous Trials: Andrew Jackson

Freedmen and Southern Society Project: University of Maryland, History Department

"They are transcriptions (or, in some cases, images) of originals housed in the National Archives of the United States. They have been transcribed exactly as written, with no correction of spelling, punctuation, or syntax." They "...explain how black people traversed the bloody ground from slavery to freedom between the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction in 1867."

National Archives

Library of Congress

 

Library of Congress Posters: WPA Posters

Library of Congress: Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789

 

According to the Library of Congress:  "Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate".

Other - New

Hathi Trust Digital Library: 

The Puck Magazine has been completely digitized. 1880 - 1917  https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886840

 

Maps ETC (Educational Technology Clearninghouse): University of South Florida:  A collection of historic maps of territorial acquisitions and growth of the United States. Examples: 

  • Admission of States to the Union - 1899
  • Territories of the United States - 1900
  • The Expanding United States 1865 - 1898