Oklahoma History Day Resources
Many university libraries and museum archives can offer assistance with finding valuable primary and secondary source materials. Below are some useful links.
Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center - find books, manuscript collections, photos, oral histories, newspapers, film & video archives and much more.
www.okhistory.org/research
The National Archives
www.archives.gov - Main site
docsteach.org/home/national-history-day - History Day Section
American Journeys - Eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement.
www.americanjourneys.org/texts.asp
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
www.archive.org
Oklahoma Department of Libraries - digital access to some of the ODL's valuable resources.
www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs collection
www.loc.gov/pictures
University of Virginia - access to documents and collections from America's early period.
rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/FGEA.html
Cornell University - a wide collection of primary source documents and newspapers. Also, a complete digital copy of the War of the Rebellion - the official records for the American Civil War.
dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/m/moa
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - wide variety of primary source material on southern history.
docsouth.unc.edu
University of Oklahoma - Offers a wide variety of primary source material including the Indian-Pioneer Papers
digital.libraries.ou.edu
Yale University - Large collection of documents relating to law, history, and diplomacy.
avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
