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	Finding Digital Primary Resources Newspaper Archives: Investigate Google's News Archive Search. Use the "Timeline" feature www.google.com/archivesearch Film Archives: As an example of available film resources- check out the Rick Prelinger Archives. This site provides links to filmstock in the public domain, as well as links to resouces for other filmstock. www.prelinger.com Collection - A New Genre of Historical Resource A thematic research collection begins with the selection of a scholarly theme, which could be an author, a genre, a movement, a city, a historical period, or a canonical body of literature. Following the selection of the theme, all primary, secondary and reference resources relevant to the study of that theme are identified. The collection then accumulates the relevant resources in primary, secondary and reference literature, and then actively integrates them in a single, interlinked medium, unlike a traditional print collection. A few examples: "Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London," found at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london/ "The Mexican-American War and the Media: 1845-1848," found at http://www.history.vt.edu/MxAmWar/INDEX.HTM Find more examples at Berkeley's Sunsite: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/siteindex.html


	Historical Statistics of the United States - HA202 .H57 2006 The standard source for statistical data on U. S. History, with over 37,000 data sets on topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Includes essays placing the data in historical context. View: Online In Print


	Early Canadiana Online A digital library of primary sources in Canadian history from the first European contact to the early 20th century. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of literature, women's history, travel and exploration, native studies and the history of French Canada. View: Online


	UT-LANIC History (University of Texas - Latin American Network Information Center) Provides links to Web sites of historical information for specific countries as well as general Latin American subject matter. View: Online


	HarpWeek HarpWeek provides online access to Harper’s Weekly, the 19th century "Journal of Civilization." Harper's Weekly is primary source material including the editorials, news stories, illustrations, cartoons, and advertisements that formed American public opinion of the era. View: Online


	American Memory American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. It is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. View: Online


	Making of America, Cornell University A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. View: Online Annotation


	Making of America, U of M A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. View: Online Annotation


	Documenting the American South A digital publishing initiative that provides images, texts, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture, from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. View: Online


	WestWeb A topically organized Web site about the study of the American West created and maintained by Catherine Lavender, Prof. of History at CUNY. View: Online


	Early English Books Online (EEBO) Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles published prior to 1700. View: Online Annotation


	Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) is a full-text collection of thousands of books and pamphlets printed in America from 1639-1800. View: Online Annotation


	Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. View: Online Annotation


	Repositories of Primary Sources An international list for locating links to archival Web sites. Lists over 5000 archival sites with information on holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, and historical photographs. Organized geographically. Link to resource: Repositories of Primary Sources Fulltext available: Primary Sources (Historical)

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