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General Primary Resources - Content Area Resources in Social Studies

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National Archives - The home to thousands of government documents.

Library of Congress - The home to thousands of primary sources in multiple formats. Also links to Congress.gov, the home for legislative information.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute - A private organization that holds thousands of primary sources.

Digital History - Hundreds of primary sources organized by era and topic.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library - Presidential library of Abraham Lincoln

Herbert Hoover Library and Museum - Presidential library of Herbert Hoover

Franklin Roosevelt Library and Museum - Presidential library of Franklin Roosevelt

Truman Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of Harry Truman

Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gerald Ford Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of Gerald Ford

Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library - Presidential library of Lyndon Johnson

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of John F. Kennedy

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of Richard Nixon

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute - Presidential library of Ronald Reagan

George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center - Presidential library of George H.W. Bush

Bill Clinton Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of Bill Clinton

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum - Presidential library of George W. Bush

The Avalon Project - A project of Yale Law School, the site has thousands of documents organized by historical era.

State Historical Museum of Iowa - Lots of Iowa history primary sources.

New York Library Archives and Manuscripts - Search archives for lots of full-text resources.

Smithsonian - The Smithsonian is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex.

The University of Chicago Special Collections - This library holds rare books, manuscripts, university archives and a special jazz archive.

L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University - This library has manuscripts, lectures, photographs, rare books and more pertaining to Mormonism, world history, literature, and more.

Manuscript Reading Room - LOC's Manuscript Reading Room includes special collections and research tools.

British Library - This library has books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music and more.

The Library of Trinity College Dublin - This library has the Book of Kells and other books.

The National Library of Ireland - This library has a special collection that features documents and manuscripts going back almost 1,000 years.

American Museum of Natural History - Find research projects and special collections.

A Selection of Web-Accessible Collections at Harvard University - This Harvard collection has daguerreotypes, botanical images from Eastern Asia, Chinese rubbings and more.

Smithsonian Folkways - This collection has archives on American singers, history makers and more.