Primary Sources: The 1960s & Vietnam, 1960-1979

From the website: A collection of unique photographs which historically document the 1969-1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indians of All Tribes, Inc. These rare photographs were contributed by Ilka Hartmann, Michelle Vignes, and the National Park Service in order that students and researchers may have access to information that will provide insight into the occupation and those who were instrumental in the early activities of Indian protest and unified political activities by American Indian people.

This site provides visitors with access to an online collection of digital texts and images from the American Radicalism collection at Michigan State University. Among the many subject areas included are the Hollywood Ten, Black Panthers, Birth Control, I.W.W., Wounded Knee and Students for a Democratic Society.

This site offers a database of and index to more than 5000 speeches in text, audio and video formats. The site also contains links to the Top 100 speeches of the 20th century.

Historical collections for the National Digital Library, from the Library of Congress. Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

This collection, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, contains more than 85,000 documents pertaining to the presidency. The items span all eras of American history and range from the public papers of George Washington to the victory speech of Barack Obama.

The Clifford H. Baldowski Collection at the Richard B. Russell Library

From the website: "This online exhibition of letters and audio, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq.

From the website: "The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964.

Currently the Digital Library collection of the Carter presidential library includes papers from the Office of the Chief of Staff and the Office of Staff Secretary during the Carter Administration. The collection has been selected in whole or in part and digitized for web access.

The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living.

This collection, part of the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project presents the stories of gau service men and women who served their country " while balancing the need to keep their private lives private."

This collection from the Library of Congress includes man interviews that involve post-World War II diplomacy, from the late 1940s to the present day, but the collection also includes accounts of Americans involved in Iraq and Afghanistan after 2003

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum has an extenstive digital collection which inculdes the President's daily diary, the President's and First Lady's speeches, cabinet meeting minutes and documentation about the November, 1974 arms control summit.

This collection, from the Library of Congress, features the work of four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Herb Lock. Lock's work spans more than six decades, from the stock market crash in 1929 through the new millennium beginning in the year 2000.

This collection, from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, features images, texts and maps that illustrate the African-American migration experience.

This site provides access to a digitized version of the 7 volume "Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties". Those volumes cover the period between 1778 through 1971. This site, produced by Oklahoma State University, is searchable.

Through its collection of oral histories, photographs, letters and other memorabilia, this site helps documents the experience of Jewish American Women from the 1940s through the present.

Among the items you'll find in the digitized collections are select photos, LBJs daily diary and National Security Action memoranda.

The Library's holdings include the papers of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, as well as more than 400 other collections of personal papers and institutional records: those of other Kennedy family members; Kennedy administration officials, staff, and associates; and relevant individuals, authors, and institutions.
In addition, the Kennedy Library houses a large audiovisual collection, the Ernest Hemingway Collection, the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History collections, a print materials collection, and the Museum collection.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University provides links to the text of King's sermon's and speeches, biographical essays, encyclopedia entries and audio and audio and video clips of the Civil Rights leader.

The Life photo archive, hosted by Google's Image Search, features millions of photographs from the magazine's archives. You can search the database keyword or by category. Those categories include: time period, people, places, events, sports and culture.

The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952.

This special Collection at Kent State University contains documents, photographs and moving images related to the May 4, 1970 shooting of protesting Kent State students by Ohio National Guardsmen.

The Prelinger Archvies, housed at The Internet Archive, represents a collection of tens of thousands of advertising,educational, industrial and amateur films.

From the NARA website: "The National Archives was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt, but its major holdings date back to 1775. They capture the sweep of the past: slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation..."

This digital public law library, a project of The Native American Rights Fund, is devoted to Federal native American and tribal law.

Among the items in the library's digital collection are the President's daily diary, national security memoranda, the Public Papers of the President, the Pentagon Papers and Nixon's grand jury testimony.

This collection from the National Archives tells the story of the 20th century United States in pictures. Among the images you'll find here are pictures of an Easter Parade on New York's 5th Avenue in 1900 and one of President Bill Clinton playing a saxophone.

From the website: The Presidential Oral History Program is systematically and comprehensively debriefing the principal figures in the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Clinton, with plans to do the same for future presidents.

Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties—Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Nixon—secretly recorded on tape just under 5,000 hours of their meetings and telephone conversations. The Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program from University of Virginia's Miller Center is a unique effort aimed at making these remarkable historical sources accessible.

This collection is part of UC Irvine's Southeast Asian Archive. SEAAdoc contains more than 1500 images and 4000 pages of text that are related to post 1975 refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Established in 1982, the TV Archive preserves over 4000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries and other programs produced locally in the Bay Area and Northern California between 1939-2005. It is part of SF State Library's Department of Special Collections.

The National Archives and Records administration maintains a site devoted to Historical Election Results. Included on this page are the results of the electoral college votes dating back to 1789.

This site, from the U.S. Library of Congress, contains photographs, correspondence and personal narratives from participants in World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.