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United States Historical Links

Library of Congress - Good tool for creating starting bibliographies. Also contains some primary resources.

National Archives - Gateway to US government records and repositories around the country.

US Civil War Center - Extensive links to documents, diaries, maps, etc. from the American Civil War period.

Center for Afro-American Studies - Large library and series of links related to African studies.

NUCMC - Searchable database of manuscript collections maintained by institutions around the country.

Library Resources On-Line - A guide to library resources on the Internet, US and abroad.

National Women's History Project -  Gateway to US women's history sites and documents.

American Hyper-text - On-line archive of documents important to US history.

Smithsonian - A center of historical research since 1849, an excellent source of American documents.

Thomas - US Congressional records on-line and searchable by keywords.

American Memory - Historical collections for National digital library, over 70 collections on many topics.

GPO Access - Official Federal clearinghouse for government documents and publications.

Supreme Court Decisions - Database and links for historic and current Supreme Court decisions

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World History Links

Perseus Project - On-line texts of ancient sources; complete with scholarly translations.

ORB - On-line reference for medieval studies, articles and documents.

Labyrinth Library - original texts in Latin, Old English, French, etc.

WWI Document Archive - Archive of primary documents from numerous countries pre-1914 to 1918.

Papyrus Archives - Provides electronic access to texts and images from ancient Egypt.

Early Church Documents - Guide to early European church documents.

Bodleian Library - Oxford's main research library, links to other libraries and primary documents of the empire.

Middle English Collections - Access to primary documents from Chaucer, Gower and many others.

Ancient World Wide Web - Gateway to numerous sites on a variety of topics and era.

Early Modern Resources - Gateway to many sites on Early Modern History.

Internet History Source books - Project by Fordham University of a huge amount of primary sources sorted by topics. These include an Modern History Source book, Medieval History, Ancient History, Women's History, Science History, and many more.

Primary Source Repositories - list of primary source repositories.

Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - a huge listing of maps, contemporary and ancient.

Ancient Texts - links to archives complete with scholarly translations.

Religious Texts - links to religious texts from many different cultures.

Eurdocs - Provides links to primary documents throughout Western Europe from medieval to modern ages.

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Top Research Libraries
These are great starting places to build both primary and secondary source bibliographies

Harvard University
Yale University
University of California, Berkeley
UCLA
Columbia University
University of Texas
Stanford University
Cornell University
University of Michigan
University of Washington 

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State Archives

Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
MIchigan
Minnesota
MIssissippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

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General History Links

Westweb - Western History - Links to various sites, such as NativeWeb, the American West.

University of Kansas History Resources - Provides links to every region of the globe, an excellent starting point.

H-Net - Humanities and social sciences on-line. Gateway to almost any topic using keywords.

Voice of the Shuttle - An inexhaustible number of sources and links for all genres of history.

18th Century Resources - A multi-disciplinary site on aspects of 18th century life.

ODIN - North Dakota library system.

Arctic Circle - Provides information and links to documents from around the circumpolar region.

International Relations and Security  - Searchable database of global links on international issues.

Newspapers - Huge collection of newspaper archives throughout the United States.

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