Resources for Research

General Sources:

Utah's Online Library (Sign on at home: please see your Google Classroom for the at-home sign-on and password)

• https://onlinelibrary.uen.org/  

  • • • Once signed in, click on Gale Reference Collection - Grades 9 - 12

Utah History Day Student tool kit

https://nationalhistorydayutah.padlet.org/wratzet1/do-your-research-ays116yayhog9aan 

Library of Congress

• https://www.loc.gov/ 

National Archives

• https://www.archives.gov/ 

Chronicling America

• http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ 

Internet Archive

• https://archive.org/ 

Utah History Primary Sources

• https://history.utah.gov/inquire-2/k-12-resources/our-past-their-present/  

Fordham University (Especially for ancient, medieval and foreign topics)

• http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ 

Mountain West Digital Library (Especially for Western US History)

• http://mwdl.org/ 

Smithsonian Institution

• https://www.si.edu/ 

National Museum of American History

• http://americanhistory.si.edu/ 

HathiTrust Digital Library

• https://www.hathitrust.org

Historical Newspapers

• https://www.newspapers.com 

American Memory

• https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/updatedList.html  

House of Representatives NHD Archives

• https://history.house.gov/Education/NHD/NHD-Resources/  

Ken Burns Documentary Clips on Various Topics

• https://utah.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kenburnsclassroom/home/#.Wa6nGflVhuA 

Multimedia Public Broadcasting Archive

• http://americanarchive.org/  

Specific Topics: 

Immigration to Utah:

•  https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/i/IMMIGRATION.shtml 

Immigration in General: 

• https://immigrationhistory.org/ 

Famous Trials

• https://www.famous-trials.com/ 

• https://www.oyez.org/ 

Early American History Primary Source Documents (Colonial Williamsburg through the Internet Archive)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20131208204031/http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary.cfm 

Advertisement Database from 1911 to 1955

• https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess 

British Advertisement Database for 1900s

• http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/en/page/show_home_page.html 

Reasons for Westward Expansion  

• https://www.docsteach.org/activities/teacher/reasons-for-westward-expansion

The Settlement of the American West 

•  https://www.docsteach.org/activities/teacher/the-settlement-of-the-american-west

Evaluating Perspectives on Westward Expansion 

•  https://www.docsteach.org/activities/teacher/evaluating-perspectives-on-westward-expansion

The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Communities 

•  https://www.docsteach.org/activities/teacher/the-impact-of-westward-expansion-on-native-american-communities

What Else Was Happening During the Civil War Era? 

•  https://www.docsteach.org/activities/teacher/what-else-was-happening-during-the-civil-war-era

Interviews of Holocaust survivors - USC Shoah Foundation

• https://sfi.usc.edu/full-length-testimonies 

Transcontinental railroad:

• https://www.docsteach.org/documents?filter_searchterm=Transcontinental+Railroad&searchType=all&filterEras=&filterDocTypes=&sortby=relevance&filter_order=&filter_order_Dir=&rt=N35y5ESQKnQm&reset=1 

• https://umfa.utah.edu/race-to-promontory 

• https://www.uen.org/transcontinentalrailroad/ 

Japanese Internment during WWII

• https://densho.org/ 

National Women's History Museum

• http://www.womenshistory.org/

• https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library 

• See the PDF below: Herstory: Women in American History 

Civilian Conservation Corp Primary Source Documents

• https://collections.lib.utah.edu/search?facet_setname_s=dha_cccn  

Native Tribes

• https://www.aaanativearts.com/ustribes-a-z/ustribesa-b