Links to other Resources
Area Repositories
- Guilford College's Friends Historical Collection
- Dedicated to "preserving the spiritual, intellectual and cultural heritage of Quakerism in the southeastern United States."
- North Carolina A&T's University Archives
- In addition to preserving the University's history, a special collections division collects materials documenting the history of the African American experience in the Triad area.
- Greensboro Historical Museum
- Preserving the history of the Piedmont Triad area.
- Duke University's Rare Books, Special Collections and Manuscripts Library
- Particular strengths include: the history of advertising, African American history, women's history, documentary arts and civil rights.
- UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library
- Home of the Southern Historical Collection, the Southern Folklife Collection, the North Carolina Collection, and Documenting the American South.
- North Carolina State University's Special Collections Research Center
- Collection focuses include engineering and technology; architecture and design; textiles, and the history of science.
Other Sites for Primary Sources
- Repositories of Primary Sources
- "A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."
- Archives USA
- A directory of over 160,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the US.
- NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Preserving all materials created by the US Federal government deemed to be of lasting legal or historical importance.
- American Memory project from the Library of Congress
- "American Memory 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."
- NCECHO (North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online)
- Online portal to North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions.
- North Carolina State Archives
- Housing historical and evidential materials relating to North Carolina.
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