History Texts (Electronic)

Avalon Project - from the Yale Law School - Access to documents ranging from the medieval times to the 21st centuries and including texts of treaties, declarations and conventions, and also many international relations texts.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Digital Archives - An on-line resource devoted to fulfilling Franklin Roosevelt’s dream of making the records of the past available “for the use of men and women in the future.” Through this site, scholars, teachers, students and members of the general public can now gain access to a portion of the rich collection of documents, photographs, sound and video recordings, finding aids, and other primary source materials found at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York.

Historical Text Archive - Provides access to texts by region or by topic (e.g. World Wars, Rock 'n' roll).

The History Channel - Speeches - Web site offering access to audio files of famous speeches from history. Sound-card required.

Houghton Mifflin World Civilizations Resource Centre - Primary sources - A collection of texts from the Epic of Gilgamesh, to a speech on the Gulf War by George Bush, and including texts on The Crusades, Buddhism, Islam, Columbus, the reformation, the Slave Trade, the Wealth of Nations, empire, Mexican war, the Nuremberg trials and the foundation of human rights.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project - The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use, maintained by Paul Halsall and Fordham University.

National Archives Documents Online - Online access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent federal agency that preserves the history of the USA by overseeing the management of all federal records. One useful seciton is the Digital classroom which, to encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.

National Security Archive - The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

World History Archives - Links to documents for the history of the world. These are grouped by region, and also by topics such as historiography, Western civilization, the Near East, working-class history, economic history, social history, cultural history, contemporary political history, and even world telecommunications.

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