Online Resources for Primary Sources

The following online resources are primarily from the U.S. government. They provide extensive collections of primary source material with multiple media types.

U.S. Government Sources

• American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): http://www.archives.gov
• Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov
• US Patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/
• Smithsonian Images Collection: http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal
• NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/ and http://science.nasa.gov/
• U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/

Other Sources

• Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
• Footnote: http://www.footnote.com/
• Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
• Eyewitness to History: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
• Repositories of Primary Sources: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Educator Kathy Schrock has shared a collection of online resources for primary sources on her website. This collection accompanies her presentation entitled “A Three Hour Tour: Navigating Primary Source Material on the Internet.” View the slides as a PDF or as a Picasa Web Album.