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MMW Primary Sources pdf
Created by UCSD Soc Sci & Humanities Lib to help out with the challenging primary source! It's a 22 page clickable PDF.

American Memory Project
American Memory focuses on the American experience. It includes written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.

The Avalon Project at Yale: 20th Century Documents
Includes digital documents in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. Its coverage is from pre-18th century to the 21st century.

Cold War International History Project

Daily Life Through World History in Primary Documents

Empire Online
A collection of primary source documents related to Empire Studies from 1492 to the present. You'll also find thematic essays by leading scholars that relates directly to the primary source docs.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of historical documents. Documents range from medieval to contemporary.

Holocaust Living History Archive
An extensive collection of videos from Holocaust survivors around the world describing their experiences. You must be on-campus to view videos, and account registration required.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Collection of primary sources, often in English translation, of historic documents from the early modern period to the present for both Europe and the Americas.

London Times Historical
The Times is a daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785. This digital archive contains articles written from 1785-1985.

New York Times Historical
Daily newspaper published in New York City since 1851. This digital archive contains articles written from 1851-2004.

UC Press e-Books
Primary sources can sometimes be foundhyperlinked in the bibliographies or footnotes of these scholarly e-books.

United Nations Documents
U.N. documents dating back to 1946 through the present.

Women in World History
Browse more than 200 primary sources by region.

You can also try a Google Scholar search with your topic keywords and the word "primary source" in quotations. And, check out these ROGER search tips to find primary sources.