Web Sites for National History Day

 

 

Primary sources are in the following online databases and web pages.

 

  1. National History Day site:

http://www.NationalHistoryDay.org or http://www.historynet.com/

 

  1. National Archives database:  When searching this database think of how the government might word things (ie. Instead of “trail of tears” use the term “Indian removal”).

http://www.archives.gov

 

  1. The American Memory Project (great site from Library of Congress)

http://memory.loc.gov/

 

  1. History ask a question (provides a list of historians, by specialty, who are willing to answer e-mail questions.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/askhist.htm

 

  1. Project Whistlestop (Harry S. Truman Library)

http://www.trumanlibrary.org

 

  1. National Endowment for the Humanities

http://www.neh.gov

 

  1. The Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/

 

  1. The White House (the one our president lives in)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

 

  1. Collections of Primary Sources

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

 

  1. Ready, Net, Go! Internet Resources for Archives

http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ArchivesResources.html

 

  1. Denver Public Library Western History

http://history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html

 

  1. World Wide Web Virtual Library-History

http://lib.ku.edu/

 

  1. The Smithsonian Institution

http://www.si.edu/

 

  1. The National Park Service

http://www.nps.gov/

 

  1. The University of Oklahoma Law Center: A Chronology of US Historical Documents

http://law.ou.edu/hist/

 

  1. The National Gallery of Art

http://www.nga.gov/

 

  1. The Kennedy Center’s Arts Edge

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html

 

  1. The National Endowment for the Arts

http://www.arts.endow.gov/

 

  1. American Studies Crossroads Project

http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/

 

  1. The Gallery of the Open Frontier (The American West 1861-1912)

http://gallery.unl.edu/

 

  1. New York State Archives

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/

 

  1. Maryland State Archives

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/

 

  1. Cornell University Rare Manuscript Collection

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/

 

  1. Colorado Historical Society

http://www.coloradohistory.org/

 

  1. Television News Archive (1968-present) Vanderbilt U.

http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu

 

  1. Film Publications and Resource Guides

http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/pubs.html

 

  1. Boulder local history

http://www.boulder.lib.co.us/carnegie/