Free Primary Sources

Wide range of American speeches.

Primary sources documenting legal history related to African-Americans.

Provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs

Project of the British Library to digitize and preserve endangered archival materials. Rich sources on locations in Africa, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, and Asia.

Open-access European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced, or translated.

Speeches given by women. Speeches date from 1848-2010.

Combination of essays, primary sources, and lectures on various topics in American History, broken down by era.

Primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history. Designed for high schools and early college students.

Modernized interface for Library of Congress digitized materials. It allows you to "access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films."

SoJust collects materials on social justice. The site has speeches, songs, letters, and other material.

Project of the National Library of Australia. It has a wide variety of source materials, including everything from diaries to maps to archive websites.

Digitized, searchable proceedings of both the British House of Commons and the House of Lords back to 1803.

Collection of documents, broken out by region, of women's role in world history. Strengths include visual materials from the Spanish Civil War, documents on health in Latin America, and discussions of Imperialism in North Africa.