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History: Yocum Library Useful Links

American History Resources

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AFRO American Newspapers Over 100 years of scanned issues
American Civil War Letters and Diaries Virginia Military Institute’s collection
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Photographs, documents, and articles
American Indian Oral History Typescripts of interviews
American Presidency Project Presidential documents on the internet hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara including 140,000+ documents and even Donald Trump’s Twitter feeds.
Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact 400,000+ pages, pamphlets, and serials, and photographs, diaries, and other writings of ordinary immigrants.
Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars Soldiers’ and families’ letters and audio correspondence from over 200 years of U.S. wars
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States 2,000 primary source documents related to Black history, from the movement to abolish slavery to the contemporary era
Berks History Center Located In Reading and offers a research library and museum highlighting Berks County history. Yocum Library has free passes to the museum to check out.
Chronicling America America's historic newspapers from 1789-1943
Densho Japanese American Internment Camps
Digital Public Library of America Materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country.
Discovering American Women's History Primary sources -photos, letters, diaries, artifacts
First Nations Collection Documents, books, and articles
Freedom on the Move A database of “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives from slavery or descriptions of people jailed as potential escaped slaves.
HarpWeek: Explore History Harper's Weekly political cartoons
Historical Society of Pennsylvania One of the nation’s largest archives of historical documents with over 21 million manuscripts, books, and graphic images encompassing centuries of US history and is a leading center for the documentation and study of ethnic communities and immigrant experiences in the 20th century
Labor Studies & Work Free online books from the Temple University Press in collaboration with Temple University Libraries.
Library of Congress Digital Collections Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music
Library of Congress: Immigration Links to resources for teachers and students
New York Public Library Digital Collections 700,000+ prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more
PA Photos and Documents Thousands of digitized documents and photographs from unique collections in libraries across Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State Archives Located in Harrisburg the Archives collects, preserves and makes available for study the permanently-valuable public records of the Commonwealth, with particular attention given to the records of state government.
Sequoyah Research Center Family Stories from the Trail of Tears
The American Folklife Center Millions of songs, stories, and other creative expressions from the 19th century to the present
United States National Archives The official website
Women Working, 1800-1930 700,000+ digitized pages and images

 

European and World History Resources

Links Description
Internet History Sourcebook Project Collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Exploring the French Revolution in images, documents, songs, maps, and timelines.
The Avalon Project Documents in law, history, and diplomacy from 4000BCE to the 21st century
Euro Docs Primary historical documents, video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery
Women in World History Websites, primary sources, and case studies.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The official website
Nuremberg Trials Project Digitized images or full-text versions of the Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg documents.
World Digital Library An incredible source of primary source materials from around the world.

 

Websites recommended by Ms. Jodi Greene, RACC Faculty.

 

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