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META-SITES || SEARCHES || GENERAL

• META-SITES
  • Repositories of Primary Sources: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
  • Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the US: http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ussites.html
  • Historical Information on the Web: http://www.refdesk.com/facthist.html
  • Electronic Texts and Images: http://history.hanover.edu/eti.html
    
• SPECIFIC SEARCH ENGINES
  • Concordances of Great Books: http://www.concordance.com/
  • Online Book Search Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/booksearch.html
    
• GENERAL
  • Electronic Text Center--University of Virginia: http://etext.virginia.edu/
  • Speech and Transcript Center: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm
  • Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.net
  • The History of Herodotus: http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.sum.html
  • American Memory: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
  • Literature and Electronic Texts: http://www.susx.ac.uk/library/pier/subjects.dir/arts.dir/lit.html#general
  • English Language Text Server: http://eserver.org/
  • Online Book Initiative: http://ftp.std.com/obi/
  • Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/
  • Bartleby.com--Great Books Online: http://www.bartleby.com/
  • Catholic Library: http://www.ewtn.com/new_library/fileindexes.htm
  • Research Guide to American Speeches and Speechmakers: http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/library/gd_am_speeches.html
  • Special Collections Digital Center: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/projects.html
  • Archives of American Public Address: http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/
  • Federal Government Documents: http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/
  • Gifts of Speech--Women's Speeches: http://gos.sbc.edu/
  • The American Colonists' Library: http://www.universitylake.org/primarysources.html
  • Historical Editions: http://adh.sc.edu/
  • The War Times Journal Archives: http://www.wtj.com/archives/
  • Ulysses S. Grant Memoirs: http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/grant.html
  • Letters of the Civil War: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/7914/index.html
  • British and American Online Texts: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-on.html
  • Gilded Age Texts, 1866-1901: http://www.wm.edu/~srnels/giltext.html
  • Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
  • Mario's Cyberspace Station (Intelligence/Spies): http://mprofaca.cro.net/
  • First Person Narratives of the American South: http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/fpn/texts.html
  • Making of America--Documents: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
  • Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics: http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
  • USA--Index to Source Material: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
  • Digital National History Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
  • National Archives and Records Administration: http://www.nara.gov
  • Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
  • US Military History Institute: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/
  • Benson Latin American Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/Benson/index.htm
  • Cold War Files: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~cherny/coldwar.html
  • Historic American Sheet Music Project: http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
  • Women's History in Archival Collections: http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/links.htm
  • African-American Women Archival Exhibit: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
  • Suffragists' Oral History Project: http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html
  • Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
  • National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
  • Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics: http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
  • EuroDocs: http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
  • Africa Research Central--Clearinghouse of Primary Sources: http://africa-research.csusb.edu/
  • Spy Letters of the American Revolution: http://www.clements.umich.edu/spies/index.html

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