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United States History, 1945 to the Present

Using Primary Sources

Finding Primary Sources on the Web
What are primary sources?

Where can you find them?

How do you evaluate them?
25 Questions to Ask Your Primary Source

Sample Postwar Sources & Museum Exhibitions

Library of Congress: 1945 - Present
LIFE (magazine) Photo Archive 1860-1970
Museum of the City of New York-
Activist New York
New-York Historical Society--Online Exhibitions
Hudson ecology; Vietnam War 1945-1975; Women's March; Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow; Chinese Americana Exclusion / Inclusion; First Jewish Americans.
Political Posters (Univ. of Michigan)
Primary Source Spotlight: U.S. Presidents
U.S. History by Time Periods
National Museum of American History