eastlibrary.org: FINDING, EVALUATING, AND CITING SOURCES

Comprehensive list of links to world map collections (this is an AMAZING source)

75000+ maps and images online

"The goal of The National Map’s Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC), which started in 2011, is to provide a digital repository of USGS 1:250,000 scale and larger maps printed between 1884, the inception of the topographic mapping program, and 2006."

A large selection of maps across the world including statistical, topical, travel, and more.

Browse all Library of Congress collections with maps

"DPLA Images lets you search the Digital Public Library of America, a collection of millions of cultural heritage objects from libraries, archives, and museums across the country, for images."

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

Search 15,638 items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000 CE

Browse all Library of Congress prints and photographs

Digital photography collections at the National Archives

"A global archival offering of defining cultural moments, places and iconic personalities–– from the historical to the present-day."

Library of Congress digital archives. Browse by topic or search collections by keyword

100 milestone documents of American history, curated by National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps

"An independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives."

"Explore 15,518,742 items from libraries, archives, and museums"

"The Avalon Project is a digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy. The project is part of the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library."

"The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use." (Paul Halsall, editor)

75000+ maps and images online

Searchable database of executive orders, addresses, executive orders, proclamations, and more

Search 15,638 items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000 CE

53,000+ free ebooks in the public domain (both fiction and nonfiction)

"The Vietnam Center and Archive collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War, and supports and encourages research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam Experience."

Links to primary sources sorted by time period since the American Revolution (good curricular resource for teachers)

"The HTA is in its 26th year of publishing high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects."

"A complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full text Supreme Court opinions."

"Read and search the full texts of more than 8,500 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 6,500 more."

"Explore 15,518,742 items from libraries, archives, and museums"

Searchable primary sources in science, technology, and industry

Nature and the Environment- links to both primary and vetted outside sources

A large selection of maps across the world including scientific/data maps

Science and invention primary source sets

Search 15,638 items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000 CE

Open-access, peer-reviewed journal articles and data points from all areas of the sciences.

"NLM's online oral histories provide access to a wealth of digitized transcripts, and audio when available. These interviews may be searched below, left, either as a whole or according to the collections into which they are divided."

100 popular speeches; audio files and transcripts; rhetoric of 9/11; movie monologues

Audio clips, searchable by keyword or category

Search by name, date, or keyword

Audio files of some of the most popular speeches of the 20th century (public domain)

Audio files of some of the most popular speeches of the 20th century (public domain)

"NLM's online oral histories provide access to a wealth of digitized transcripts, and audio when available. These interviews may be searched below, left, either as a whole or according to the collections into which they are divided."

Outside links to exemplary oral history sites along with tips for evaluating sources

"The ALPL Oral History Program is dedicated to preserving the stories and memories of Illinois‘s citizens, not just the famous and prominent among us, but of people from all walks of life."

"A complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full text Supreme Court opinions."

"The Global History Sourcebook is dedicated to exploration of interaction between world cultures." (Paul Halsall, ed) Explore further by region and time period.

"The Avalon Project is a digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy. The project is part of the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library."

Transcriptions, translations; search by country or time period from the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU

Audio files of some of the most popular speeches of the 20th century (public domain)

Amazing, comprehensive list of links to world map collections (this is an AMAZING source)

Search 15,638 items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000 CE

"Explore 54,166,060 artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe"

"The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource."