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Favorite OnLine Research Sites

Favorite OnLine Research locations:

JL Panagopoulos 

1.      The Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has a wealth of information available to the public online and in the library, mostly about American history and culture.  http://www.loc.gov/index.html

2.      New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts: Here you can search archives for full-text resources and more. If something isn’t available online, you can also connect with a librarian to find a similar match.   http://www.nypl.org/collections/nypl-collections/archival-materials

 3.      The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library: This library project features full electronic cataloging of the entire John Adams Library collection, as well as typed transcripts and manuscripts, and a gallery exhibition.   http://www.johnadamslibrary.org

4.      The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley: This unique library holds rare books, manuscripts and other primary sources, including 8 million photographs, 43,000 microforms and 23,000 maps.  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/

5.      The University of Chicago Special Collections: The school’s special collections library houses rare books, manuscripts, university archives and a special Chicago Jazz archive.

      http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/

6.      Special Collections at Florida State University: Find rare Bibles from the 15th century, as well as one of the largest collections of Napoleon and the French Revolution in the U.S., including unique letters and journals from Napoleon.  http://www.fsu.edu/~speccoll/

7.      Manuscript Reading Room: The Library of Congress’ Manuscript Reading Room features special collections, research tools, and information about preserving and collecting manuscripts.  http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/

8.      Gelman Special Collections Research Center at George Washington University: This collection of primary sources includes documents and more relating to African American history, labor history, media and journalism, and more.  http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC

9.      Harvard University Special Collections: Harvard’s Special Collections range from topics like theology, science, art and more.  http://lib.harvard.edu/archives/index.html

10.  Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve: Here you can access one of the most important collections of rare books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages. http://bsg-reliures.univ-paris1.fr/en/home/

11.  British Library: The British Library features a "help for researchers" page, which lets you narrow down your search by topic, time period and resource type. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/index.html

12.  Trinity College Library, Dublin: This library is home to the Book of Kells and many other artifacts and archives.  http://www.tcd.ie/Library/

13.  The National Library of Ireland: The National Library of Ireland boasts a special collection that features documents and manuscripts that go back almost 1,000 years.  http://www.nli.ie/en/about-our-collections-introduction.aspx

 Museums  

1.      The Smithsonian: Find everything from original art and design pieces to science, technology, American history and more. http://www.si.edu/

2.      The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Find original designs from the late 18th century to the modern era, including shoe buckles, lace capes, bonnets, shoes and more.

3.      American Museum of Natural History: Read about the research projects undertaken by curators at this famous museum and view permanent collections of iridescent gemstones, the Audubon Gallery and more.  http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_Art/the_costume_institute

4.      Natural Museum of American History: This museum’s online collections include information and resources pertaining to American invention, history and pop music.

5.      Lyrical Legacy: Here you’ll find poems and lyrics and music to songs like Yankee Doodle, Battle of Bunker Hill, Sonnet to Liberty and We Shall Overcome.  http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/about.cfm

6.      A Selection of Web-Accessible Collections at Harvard University: Find daguerreotypes, botanical images from Eastern Asia, Chinese rubbings, and a lot more from this Harvard collection.  http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/

7.      American Memory: Browse topics like government/law, cities/towns, African American history, maps, or literature to find digital files. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

8.      Smithsonian Folkways: The Smithsonian’s tribute to the sound of culture, this collection features archives American singers, history makers and more.  http://www.folkways.si.edu/

9.      York University Oral History and Audio-Visual Materials: This Canadian university library has recordings about slavery, American advertising, Canadian history and more.  http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/ResearchAndInstruction/primary-sources-audio-and-visual-materials.en

10.  Motion Picture Films and Sound and Video Recordings: The National Archive’s online collection of video and sound recordings can be found here.  http://www.archives.gov/research/start/by-format.html#film

U.S. History

1.      American Folklife Center: Find recordings, publications, special collections and more archives relating to American history. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/

2.      The National Security Archive: Find original, though declassified, national security documents and recordings at the George Washington University library here.  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

3.      Colonial Williamsburg: The official site for the Colonial Williamsburg museum and center features online exhibits too.  http://www.history.org/history/museums/online_exhibits.cfm

4.      Archiving Early America: Find primary sources related to Colonial America, George Washington and more. http://www.earlyamerica.com/

5.      Civil War Primary Documents: This teachers’ guide has a wide range of links to primary sources like The Militia Act, orders from Abraham Lincoln, and other letters, literature, diaries and more. http://www.teacheroz.com/Civil_War_Documents.htm

6.      Teaching with Documents: Lesson Plans from The National Archives: Find primary U.S. history documents and lesson plans for The Great Depression and World War II, the American Revolution, postwar United States, and Contemporary United States.  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

7.      Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Access The Bill of Rights, the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, Gettysburg Address and more.  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html

8.      DocSouth Collections: UNC Chapel Hill Library: Access digitized versions of exhibitions and collections like "The First Century of the First State University" and "The Church in the Southern Black Community." http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html

9.      Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Search voyage databases, and the African names database to learn more about the slave trade between Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean and North America.  http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

The Classics and Ancient History

1.           EuroDocs: Get transcriptions and translations of historical documents going back to ancient and prehistoric Greece, Cyprus and more. http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

2.           Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University: Find ancient texts and art, including those found in the new Arabic Collection.  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

3.           Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: From Israel to Mesopotamia to Rome, find ancient texts and documents here.  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.HTML

4.           Hanover Historical Texts Project: Find ancient European texts, texts from Africa, The Middle East and more.  http://history.hanover.edu/project.html

5.           The Latin Library: Read Persius, Ovid, Livy, Cicero, Augustus and others in their Latin text.  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/

6.           MAVORS: The website for the Institute for Ancient Military History offers samples of Ancient Roman army documents and equipment.  http://www.mavors.org/en/projects_4.htm

7.           The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt: View selected objects and take a virtual tour to see ancient artifacts from Egypt.  http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2002/egypt/index.htm

8.           Ancient-Greece.org: View maps and photographs of Ancient Greek temples, theaters and more.  http://www.ancient-greece.org/index.html

 Search Engines

1.      iResearch Reporter: Find the most valuable search results from this site, which is designed to save you time during large projects.  http://www.iresearch-reporter.com/

2.      Google Scholar: Find scholarly material to sort through to make your search more efficient. http://scholar.google.com/

3.      Google Patents: Find original patents here.  http://www.google.com/patents

4.      American Memory: This tool from the Library of Congress lets you browse by topic, too.  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/

Newspapers and Periodicals

1.           LC Newspapers: Browse current newspapers and archived papers on microfilm from the Library of Congress here.  http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/lcnewsp.html

2.           Newslink: Search by state, type, or topic.  http://newslink.org/

3.           NewspaperARCHIVE.com: This database has over 1 billion articles and goes back 240 years.  http://www.newspaperarchive.com/

4.           Google News Archive Search: This search displays your results by time period, making it easier to categorize your findings. http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Government and the Presidents                   

5.      livepage.apple.comThe American Presidency Project: Access public papers, sound recordings, election material and more for presidents like John Quincy Adams, FDR and George W. Bush. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php

6.      The National Archives: Gain access to the presidential libraries and obtain copies of historical documents. You’ll find photos from World War II, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, Louisiana Purchase, and even Elvis’ letter to President Nixon. http://www.archives.gov/

7.      FBI Freedom of Information Act: Check out the Reading Room Index to access FBI declassified documents.  http://www.fbi.gov/foia/

Miscellaneous 

1.      The Teaching With Primary Sources Program: College teachers can find information about finding and using primary sources here.  http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/

2.      Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Access historical texts regarding topics like science, Islamic, African, Byzantium and more.  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

3.      Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute: This Stanford Institute has many speeches and papers online. http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/

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