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Primary Sources
Use this guide to help find primary sources online.
Artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. Created to teach that the everyday objects in society have historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era in which they were produced.
Publications of nineteenh century American geographer Henry Schoolcraft, many of which document his encounters with Native Americans in the United States.
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
This collection reviews the cause, conduct and consequences of the Civil War and is comprised of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880.
Texts, images, & audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Includes 10 thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews & songs.
Documents the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Includes narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books to 1920.
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