Primary+Sources


 * Difference between primary and secondary sources.**


 * [|Using Primary Sources on the Web]**
 * "**Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories."


 * [|Primary Sources on the Web]** these sites are sorted into two categories: sites relating to **United States history** and sites relating to **world history**.


 * [|University of California Primary Sources on the Web]** an extensive collection of sites to find a wide variety of primary source material

"**[|Alaska's Digital Archives]** presents a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives throughout our state." **ALASKA**


 * [|Alaska's Gold]** primary source material on the gold rush **ALASKA**


 * [|American Civil War - Primary Source Documents]**
 * [|Civil War Women] diaries, documents, and pictures **AMERICAN CIVIL WAR**


 * [|American Memory]** page of the Library of Congress Website **U.S. HISTORY**


 * [|Avalon Project at the Yale Law School]** Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy


 * [|Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web]** This site currently resides on the Smithsonian Institution Libraries


 * [|Library of Congress]** Our Library of Congress has quite a few primary resources.


 * __[|National Archives and Records Administration]__** Digital Classroom ([|Local Office in Anchorage])

[|Noreen Reale Falcon Library Website with Recommend Online Primary Sources on the Medieval Period] **MEDIEVAL**


 * [|Presidential Libraries from Hoover to Clinton]**

[|UC San Diego Website with Links to Online Primary Sources on the Medieval Period] **MEDIEVAL**


 * [|Valley of the Shadow - Two Communities in the American Civil War]** Digital archive with thousands of original letters, diaries, newspaper articles, speeches, census and church records, left by the men and women of Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania **AMERICAN CIVIL WAR**