Additional Collections

Many libraries have digitized primary resources (diaries, letters, photographs, and manuscripts). Researchers can now access these valuable materials without physically having to travel to the library.

The University of California - Berkeley Library has an excellent introduction to Library Research Using Primary Sources where they explain the difference between primary and secondary sources.

• Utah & The West
• Fine Arts & Literature
• Mega Sites
  • American Memory from Library of Congress
  • ExLibris
  • Photographs from California Digital Library
• Our Federal Heritage
  • National Archives & Records Administration (NARA):
    • The Exhibit Hall
    • Presidential Libraries
  • Smithsonian Institutional Libraries
    • Smithsonian Digital Collection
• Repositories of Primary Resources
• Women
• Specific Historical Eras
• Ancient History
• Victoriana
• 19th Century Americana
• World War II (see NARA Exhibit Hall)
• Japanese History
• more eras also included in several of the other
  listed collections such as American Memory
• American Indians
• Western European Historical Documents
• Social Sciences
  • Social Issues
  • subsection of American Memory from Library of Congress
  • History of Advertising