Primary Sources for the Liberal Arts

Primary Sources on the Internet

New Additions 7/27/2022

If you know of any collections of primary sources on the Internet, please share them by emailing bergfeltt@duq.edu

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Books Online (Smithsonian Libraries)
• British Library Digital Collections
• Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
• Chronicling American: Historic American Newspapers
• CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
• Colored Conventions Project
• Congressional Record (1873-Present)
• Digital Catholica (Catholic Research Resources Alliance)
• Digital Collections (Smithsonian Libraries)
• Digital Public Library of America
• Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
• Documenting the American South
• Founders Online
• Getty Publications Virtual Library
• Hathi Trust
• Historical Collections (National Library of Medicine)
• Internet Archive
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• The Magazine Rack (Internet Archive)
• National Archives Primary Sources
• National Archives Virtual Library
• National Institute for Newman Studies Digital Collection
• National Library of South Africa Digital Collections
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
• Online Exhibitions (Smithsonian Libraries)
• Pittsburgh & Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy
• Primary Sources from the Pennsylvania POWER LIBRARY
• Salem Witch Trials
• Teenie Harris Archive (Carnegie Museum of Art)
• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
• World Digital Library (Library of Congress)
• World War I Document Archive

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