LOCATING AND USING PRIMARY SOURCES
1.5 Use the US History in Context (Password: west) or the Ebsco Databases at ResearchItCT databases and perform a search for your topic. Then, use the “Primary Sources” limiter located in the MENU on the left side of the results screen. **The link is Sedgwick's link for the database and they have a different password from Bristow. Bristow's passwordi is: bristow**
2. Use Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov) --This webpage can be confusing and difficult to navigate, but there are many valuable sources if you can find them. One of the major perks is that most of the sources have a ‘quick cite’ option.
3. Try the Digital Public Library of America
4. Search online Newspapers 1789 - 1924 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
5. Try the National Archives www.archives.gov
6. Try DocsTeach https://www.docsteach.org/documents/documents
7. Primary Sources: Use TABS across the top! RUSA History
8. If all else fails, sometimes it is good to do a Google search of your topic + "primary sources"
Addional Sources for Primary Sources
Photos
PHOTOS, MAPS AND OTHER IMAGES
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945
Historic American Buildings Survey/Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
Library of Congress Manuscripts
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Panoramic Photographs Collection
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives
United States Holocaust Museum Research Collections Photographs
World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection, 1894-1896
MUSEUMS AND HISTORIC SITES
American Numismatic Association - Money Museum
Library of Congress Exhibitions
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of Naval Aviation
National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Women's History Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Patent and Trademark Museum
Historical sites
ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
National Archives and Records Administration
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Women's History Project
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Organization of American Historians
Society for American Baseball Research
Society for the History of Technology
White House Historical Association
NATIONAL LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES AND DIRECTORIES
Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
History, Genealogy, and Archives
National Anthropological Archives
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Maps
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection