LibGuides: GVMS Library: Primary Sources

Reading primary sources: An introduction for students

American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
The American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress provides access to images, audio files, videos, maps and sheet music that demonstrate the American experience.

Smithsonian Museums
The Smithsonian Museum, founded in 1846, consists of 19 museums and galleries, a zoo, and research facilities. The museum and gallery websites feature digital collections and information on physical collections covering art, science and history.
Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository
This digital repository features local and state history from schools, colleges and universities, libraries and museums.
Smithsonian Collections
Search over 7.4 million records with 568,100 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

Newspapers: Finding Current and Historical Newspapers
Databases and online sources for finding both current and historical newspapers - LibGuide from Bowling Green U - only have access to free websites
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
The Law Library of Congress

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
Historical Pennsylvania newspapers
Pennsylvania newspaper collections from Delaware County Libraries and Power Library