EYEWITNESS
Diaries, Interviews, Letters,  Oral History
See also Gateway Sites

17th Century New England
http://www.17thc.us
Special emphasis on Essex County Witch-Hunts of 1692.

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
From 1936 to 1938, former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, were interviewed. Their first-hand accounts include experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.

Conversations with History
http://conversations.berkeley.edu/
"Interview program, broadcast nationally...Conceived in 1982 by Harvey Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times.." Includes over 500 interviews, 1982 to present.

Discoverers Web: Primary sources
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/primary.html
Primary sources on voyages of discovery from all over the world, all time periods. There are texts that the travelers wrote on their voyages.

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Collections include First-Person Narratives of the American South, Southern Literature, Slave Narratives, Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, Church in the Southern Black Community.

EyeWitness - History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Searchable collections include Ancient World, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries, Civil War, Old West, Photo of the Week, SnapShots, voices, History in Motion.

Louisiana State Museum Photograph Collection
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/
Dating from mid 1800 to early 1900, this digital collection of 1,500 photographs of Louisiana cities, culture, people, landscape, and waterways preserves the past.

New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration
http://newdeal.feri.org/
Indepth resources about the 1930s and the New Deal: documents, photos, interviews, essays and poetry, slave narratives, TVA and much more.

Nineteenth Century Documents Project
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
From Furman Univeristy, includes primary texts from nineteenth century American history, exploring the causes of sectional conflict and the elements of regional identity. There is a particular concentration on documents from South Carolina

Presidential Recordings Program
http://whitehousetapes.net
"Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties—Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Nixon—secretly recorded on tape just under 5,000 hours of their meetings and telephone conversations. The Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program is a unique effort aimed at making these remarkable historical sources accessible."

Regional Oral History Office
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/subjectarea/index.html
Oral History topics include:
Arts & Literature; Business; Community History; Food & Wine; Law and Jurisprudence; Natural Resources and the Environment; Politics & Government; Science, Medicine, Technology; Social Movements; Univ. of California History.

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture: Women's Liberation Movement, African American Women, Civil War Women
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/guides/digital.html
Diaries, letters, photographs and prints relating to the lives of women.

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/index.cfm
"Over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music are available for your viewing. Each collection has its own web site that is unrestricted in the interests of knowledge and learning."

Treasury of Primary Documents: Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
http://www.constitution.org/primarysources/primarysources.html
Collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics, culture, and ideals. "...massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not available online anywhere."

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/
Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the American Civil War. It is an archive of newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.