United States History: Primary Sources by Type: Primary sources

Looking for diaries, interviews or personal narratives?  Theresa Mudrock, the History Librarian at UW Seattle, has created a guide for identifying primary sources on the web.

For books available within the libraries, see Using the UW Libraries Catalog to Find Published Primary Sources on the Books as Primary Sources page.

If you entered this guide from the main U.S. History Guide, you can click here to get back.

This guide contains links to most of the same sources as the U.S. History Primary Sources by Century guide, they're just arranged differently.

Use the tabs above to navigate the guide.

American Memory

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning."

Includes:

• African American Odyssey and Slave Narratives
• Chinese in California
• Civil War Images
• Conservation Movement
• Photographs of the American West
• Photographs from the Great Depression to WWII
• Women's Suffrage