Primary Sources

The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

"Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company C

The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) of the Library of Congress provides access to about 1 million digital images in the collections of the Library of Congress. There is a caveat on the site that not all images in the catalog are in the public domain.

A database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Includes a diverse variety of maps: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps and other thematic maps.

Includes more than 250,000 maps, including historical maps.

Oral History got its start at the University of California, and this website, supported by the UC-Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, includes thousands of interviews on an array of topics.

This website offers oral histories relating to the civil rights movement, drawn from the University of Southern Mississippi Center for Oral History Collection. The site features interviews with civil rights leaders such as Charles Cobb, Charles Evers, and Aaron Henry.

This is a interviewing platform and radio show begun by NPR, National Public Radio. Take a look around at some of the interviews—you just might develop an interesting research question.

From the American Folklife Center, a collection of personal accounts of American war veterans. Includes audio and video-taped interviews, written memoirs, correspondence and visual materials. Searchable by a variety of facets including war, branch of service, gender, and type of manuscript.

It includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, original and raw footage.

Historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America. A collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH.

Streaming video collection. Includes video from the 1890s to the 1980s, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel. Also includes hundred of history documentaries.