Primary Source Collections for U.S. History

We believe that you will find the following collections of primary source documents and first-hand accounts extremely helpful in researching your assigned topics.  However, you should not limit yourself to the resources listed here.  If you come across a quality collection of primary sources that is not yet listed here, you can submit it by clicking here.  Thanks for your help and good luck with you research.

Jump to: Great Depression World War II Early Cold War Civil Rights Movement Vietnam/Cultural Revolution Watergate (Nixon/Ford) Winning the Cold War General Links

 

Great Depression
We Made Do, Recalling the Great Depression	Documenting America: Collection of Depression Era Photos
WPA Life Histories from Massachusetts	The New Deal Network
Great Depression Museum in Michigan	Archival Resources on the Great Depression
Life Histories Collection at American Memory	Workers and the Great Depression
World War II
World War II Oral History Project at Rutgers	The Drop Zone
Skylighters - The story of a batallion in Europe	What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
Tank Books	Huge Collection of WWII Links
WWII and the Human Experience	Center for Story Preservation on WWII
The Cold War
American Foreign Policy Documents	Interview With Averill Harriman
Recollections from a Missile Silo	Interviews With Many Cold War Scientists
John Dulles Oral History Project
Civil Rights Movement
Accounts of Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement	Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography
Accounts from Central High School in Little Rock	Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Voices of the Civil Rights Era
The Vietnam War & Cultural Revolution
Personal Accounts of Vietnam	Vietnam - Stories Since the War
Vietnam War Related Documents	The Whole World Was Watching- Recollections of 1968
The Woman's Experience in Vietnam	Vietnam War Declassification Project
The Psychedelic Sixties	Woodstock
PBS' Vietnam Battlefield Site	Women's Liberation Documents
PBS' Rock & Roll Site
Watergate (Nixon & Ford)
Nixon's Resignation Speech	Great Background Page on Watergate
Ford's Cabinet Meeting Minutes	Watergate Documents at the National Archives
CNN's Watergate Site	Nixon's Public Papers
Winning the Cold War (Reagan & Bush)
Reagan Foreign Policy Documents	Public Papers of Ronald Reagan
Iran Contra Documents	Reagan and the Soviets
Reagan & Andropov as "Men of the Year"	A List of "Space Defense" Links
Bush's Inaugural & State of The Union Addresses	Bush's Public Papers at his Library
General Links (may be helpful for all topics)
Presidential Debate Transcripts	Great Speeches Archives
Huge Collection of Documents for all U.S. History