Finding Primary Sources: Web sites: Worldwide

Primary source documents from Western European history

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts for use in history and humanities courses.

Great works throughout history that are in the public domain - essays by noted philosophers, scientists, etc. Inaugural addresses of all U.S. presidents.

From the History Channel, audio clips of famous speeches in modern history.

Primary and secondary sources - mostly pertaining to ancient Greece and Rome. Site also includes an English Renaissance library now as well.

Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. You can browse by date or search the site.

more than 10,400 documents including treaties, United Nations information, and regional sources related to human rights issues.

a collection of medieval and classical works, from Chaucer to Icelandic sagas.

sources for church councils, writings of the church fathers, late antiquity, Byzantium, Islam, historiography, literary texts, medieval thought, governments/admin/legal documents, renaissance & reformation texts

selected scanned pages from their collection of Latin Medieval manuscripts on parchments of Spanish, English, Italian, French, Flemish, and German/Austrian origin, which range in date from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries.

documents that were produced by or about the ANC, or about international efforts on behalf of the ANC

an online repository of works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799

full-text of British Literature in the 1500s and 1600s. Scanned versions of original texts by authors such as Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne.

digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

Bibles, commentaries, classics, creeds, catechisms, liturgies, fiction, history, hymns, mysticism, reference, and sermons

searchable collection of over 400 works of classical literature from 59 different authors. Primarily Greco-Roman (with some Chinese and Persian) all in English translation.

electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and

transcriptions of interviews with liberators and a few survivors

The Primary Source Document Collection holds several complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material relating to WWII. The Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding

in French, over 100 pamphlets and periodicals from 1848 to 1851 covering various political opinions

almost 2000 French writings (correspondence, diaries, history, literature, sciences, etc.) written during the 12th - 20th centuries.

transcripts, papers, petitions, letters, testimonies, etc. from over 40 famous trials, from Socrates to Moussaoui (9/11)

text of almost all cases (along with advisory opinions, pleadings, orders, judgments, etc.) brought before the United Nations' court since 1946. Basic Documents link provides the charter of the U.N. and other documents as well.