LibGuides: National History Day: Selected Primary Sources

European History

Greco-Roman Sources
Illustrated History of the Roman Empire
World Digital Library: Europe
Outstanding source of images by historical period, place in the world, and topic. There are 5138 images associated with History & Geography. There are 2218 images for the period 1850-1899, and 2655 images for the period 1900-1949. Wonderful images with complete metadata for each! Added feature allows listening to the text. Also provides numerous links to websites about Victorian Britain.
British History Online
A digital library containing selected core primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of Great Britain.
Queen Victoria's Journals
Produced through a partnership of the Bodleian Libraries and the Royal Archives with ProQuest, Queen Victoria's Journals is intended to make available every page in the entire sequence of Queen Victoria's diaries.
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Includes household & family matters; affairs of state; meetings with statesmen; as well as comments on the literature of the day. Illustrations have been reproduced as photographs. Eventually all 141 volumes of Queen Victoria's diaries (43,765 pages) will be digitized and made available.
Florence Nightingale's Letters
A collaborative database consisting currently of more than 2,300 letters handwritten or narrated by Florence Nightingale.
German History in Documents
Nazi Propaganda: 1933-1945
A collection of English translations of National Socialist propaganda from 1933-1945 made available through Calvin College. Included are speeches and writings by NAZI leaders; racial and anti-semitic publications; visual material (posters, photographs, and art); war propaganda, 1939-1945; and much, much more. A very extensive site.
Nuremberg Laws

American History

Founders Online
The Papers of George Washington
Constitution of the United States
Bill of Rights
The National Archives
Primary Sources for US History
Digital Public Library of America
Library of Congress Primary Sources by State
U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints (SMU Library)
University of North Carolina: Documenting the American South
First Person Narratives
First Person Narratives of the American South
Woman Suffrage Memorabilia
Brown Digital Repository - Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
Primary Source: Civil Rights Movement
Primary sources compiled by the Library of Congress regarding Jim Crow Law and the NAACP.
Civil Rights Digital Library (Digital Library of Georgia)
Includes unedited film from WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albanyt, GA) television archives at the University of Georgia Libraries. Other primary source material is included as well as educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, etc.

General World History

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources and documents with much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies.

Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Includes: (1) "We were prepared for the possibility of death:" Freedom Riders in the South, 1961; (2) Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes; (3) JFK's Foreign Affairs & International Crises, 1961-1963; (4) Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Dept. Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan; (5) Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-day Life; (6) Overland Journeys to the West, 1800-1880; (7) Testament to the Holocaust: Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London; and (8) The War Department & Indian Affairs, 1800-1824.
Military Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Military Collection covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. It includes over 545 titles, with more than 400 available in full text. Researchers can access titles like:

Joint Force Quarterly: JFQ
Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin
RUSI Journal: Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies
Washington Monthly
Harvard International Review
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs