Originally developed for a History Methods course, this presentation highlights the wide variety of respectable primary sources available to students for use in their research but rarely appear in federated searches. I will conclude with how to find these types of sites and thoughts on the future of integrating these sites into Discovery tools.

1. Online Primary Sources
and Digital History Projects
for Undergraduate Research
Annette Parde
Nebraska Wesleyan University

2. Or… So many sources,
so little time
http://www.slideshare.net/NhdNebraska/online-primary-sources-
for-student-research

3. Local

4. Local
• NebraskaStudies.org (NSHS, NET, NDE)
• Designed for teachers
• Heavy use of primary sources
• UNL Archives and Special Collections
• http://libraries.unl.edu/spec
• http://cather.unl.edu
• Gallery of the Open Frontier
• http://gallery.unl.edu/index.html
• Missouri Digital Heritage
• http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/
• Truman Library Documents & Photos
• http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
• University of Missouri Digital Library Collections
• http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/digital.htm

5. National

6. National
• Connecting Presidential Collections
• http://presidentialcollections.org/
• American Memory from the Library of Congress
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Chronicling America Newspaper Collection
• http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
• National Archives
• http://www.archives.gov/index.html
• http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
• http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/
• http://docsteach.org/documents

7. National - American Indian/
Native American
• National Museum of the American Indian
• http://nmai.si.edu/explore/collections/
• http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx
• Search online collections by place and culture
• Native American Heritage Month
• http://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/index.html
• http://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/collections/index.html

8. International

9. International
• Hanover College Historical Texts Collection
• http://history.hanover.edu/project.php
• The National Archives (UK)
• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/
• Fordham University Sourcebooks
• http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook1.asp
• http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp

10. International
• World Digital Library
• http://www.wdl.org/en/
• Perseus Digital Library
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections
• “Fostering Cultural Studies through Indian Digital
Libraries”
• Presentation at Library 2.012 conference by Dr. Revathi
Viswanathan
• https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.E16415C27
CBCD1B41907975313E88E

11. Aggregators

12. National History Day Aggregators
• http://www.nhd.org/researchcentral.htm
• http://www.nhd.org/USHistoryPrimarySources.htm
• http://www.nhd.org/WorldHistoryPrimarySources.htm
• http://www.nhd.org/SongLyrics.htm
• http://www.nhd.org/OrganizationsandInstitutions.htm
• http://www.nhd.org/MuseumsandHistoricSites.htm
• http://www.nhd.org/NationalLibrariesandArchives.htm
• Missouri-specific
• http://mo.nhd.org/images/uploads/Lesson%20Plan%20Two,%20Datab
ases.pdf
• http://mo.nhd.org/curriculum.htm

13. Centers for Digital Projects
& Digital Libraries

14. Centers for Digital Projects
& Digital Libraries
• UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
• http://cdrh.unl.edu/
• Use primary sources to create digital humanities projects
• http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/p-reviews.php
• Reviews of other digital history projects
• Center for History and New Media (CHNM)
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/collecting-and-exhibiting/
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/teaching-and-learning/
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmfinding.php
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/sources.php
• Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections
• http://library.columbia.edu/digital/collections.html

15. Centers for Digital Projects
& Digital Libraries
• University of Michigan Library Digital Collections
• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/lib/colllist/
• Carolina Digital Library and Archives
• http://cdla.unc.edu/index.html?page=portfolio
• Iowa Digital Library
• http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/browse/browse.php
• http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cwd/
• http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/jmrbr/
• http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/leighhunt/

16. Centers for Digital Projects
& Digital Libraries
• University of Central Florida Center for Humanities &
Digital Research
• http://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/projects/
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• http://www.hathitrust.org/

17. How to Find More Sites
• Search for…
• Digital or Online
• Archives
• Libraries
• Collections
• Exhibits or Exhibitions
• Educator or Teacher Resources
• Try again
• 10 Ways to Google-It Better by Kristy Steigerwalt, Librarian at
UMKC; Presentation at 2012 Brick & Click Symposium
• http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/brickandclick/Presentations2012/Krist
ySteigerwalt.pptx
• Evaluate!

18. Future of Digital History &
Library Discovery
• Discovery tools → one search from library site, many
sources
• Copy cataloging and/or semantic web

19. Questions?
Annette Parde
aparde2@nebrwesleyan.edu