Everett Library: HST: Prohibition: General Primary Sources

Primary Source Material

Primary source material describes events as they were experienced by the writer, or if in oral history, the speaker. They are distinguished from accounts of events that are related, or reported to a second person who may interpret or condense the information for a news story or journal.

Links to Research Material

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of AmericaIt strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Searchable, and with access to the Wayback Machine, a virtual time machine of the internet
Hathi Trust
HathiTrust began in 2008 as a collaboration of the universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository to archive and share their digitized collections.
The New York Public Library
Founded in 1895, The New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation’s first established cultural institution and the largest library in the world, with millions of items including books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.