IMMIGRANT History DOCUMENTS on the Web
**These are just a few of the useful sites out there where you can locate full text primary sources. If you find one that is not listed here please use the URL Grabber on my website to 'grab' the site and send it to me so that we can add it to the list.
WARNING: Not everything at these links will be primary. AND remember that you must distinguish between the primary source itself and general description provided by the website editor. If you are not sure that you are taking notes on a primary source see me ASAP so that you do not end up needing to repeat the assignment. Also many of these links contain things other than primary sources too, so please be careful!
| http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ | One of the best things that you can do is go to this site. Then click on "www.history..." where they have an annotated list of sites. Then click on their full search feature that will bring up a list of possible topics to search under. |
| Electronic Version of Riis's famous study of immigrant slums. | |
| http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html | This site contains excerpts from 13 of the WPA project interviews. If you find one useful you should go the site listed above where the entire interview of that person and hundreds more can be found. |
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http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/#17
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Hundreds of primary source links in Early American history |
| http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html | |
| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/rb_index_hd.html | |
| http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/haltoc.html | An index of dozens of on-line primary sources several of which are connected to African-American History. |
| http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ | Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Can be searched by keyword and dates of sources can even be restricted during the search to the time period that you want. |
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| http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html | Index of links to primary sources in American History |
| http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ | Index of links to primary sources, contains section on slavery and reconstruction docs |
| electronictexts | Has section on 18th and 19th c. primary sources available as electronic texts |