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European History Primary Sources

Created from Professor Grimmer-Solem's Research Paper Resources Guide

Websites

Using Primary Sources on the Web

American Library Association Primary Sources on the Web

 

Primary Sources

1901 Census (England, Whales & Scotland Census)

ARTFL Project -- North America's largest collection of digitized French resources

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (open-access literature and philosophy texts) 

Archives Nationales (French National Archives) 

Avalon Project-- Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy  4000bce-present

Bibliotheque Nationale de France (National Library of France)

British History Online

British Library Archives and Manuscripts, Digitized Manuscripts 

Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) 

Carrie Eurasia Collection, (a fulltext electronic library), European University Institute 

Current Value of Old Money

Deutsches Historisches Museum, Lemo  (German Historical Museum)

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) 

The European Library - easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.

Euro Docs  Online Sources for European History

The European Navigator, University of Luxembourg (European Union history) 

First World War. Com  a multimedia history of World War One

French Studies, Association of College and Research Libraries 

The Medical Front WW1 - publication of primary documents of the Medical aspects, Military and Civilian

Gallica   The Digital Library of France

Geheimes Staatsarchiv P. K. (Prussian Privy State Archives), Digital Archives 

German History in Documents and Images

German Propaganda Archive

German Studies, Association of College and Research Libraries 

Global Price and Income History Group

GNARP German-Language Newspaper Access in North America 

Government & Geographic Information Collection, Northwestern University 

History of Germany: Primary Documents, Brigham Young University 

Holocaust Primary Documents

Internet Archive 

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

IPUMS Worldwide Census and Survey Data

Italian Studies, Association of College and Research Libraries 

League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents

The Medici Archive Project

Measuring Worth

National Archives (British) 

National Archives (US), Military Records of World War I 

National Archives (US), Military Records of World War II 

National Historical Geographic Information System

Nuremberg Project (materials from the Nuremberg Trials), Harvard University 

Open Access Resources in German Studies, Brigham Young University 

Online Data Archive

Project Gutenberg

Social Explorer (census maps) 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Wars and Warfare, Mt Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections 

Wesleyan University Special Collections and Archives, Digital Collections ​

The World Wide Web Virtual Library

Yad-Vashem