Primary Sources

Like Google Books, but much better organized.

Magazines and more magazines, capturing daily life in images from the 19th and 20th centuries. Search LIFE magazine, for example.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free digitized resources: books, movies, software, music, and more.

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Search by keyword or browse this Zotero Group list of primary source collections that are freely accessible on the Web

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources.

The collection contains 70,292 digitized Information Item reports created by Radio Free Europe’s (RFE) News and Information Department in multiple languages from 1951-1957, covering political, economic, social and cultural issues behind the Iron Curtain. The Items concerned topics ranging from official Communist Party and state apparatus organization to micro-level practices of everyday life.

The oral history collections at the British Library cover a wide range of subject areas. The interviews made available here are only a small selection from the many thousands held in the British Library.

From Library of Congress.