Archival Research Guide

Defines primary vs secondary sources. Provides information on how to locate primary sources.

Provides toolkits and suggestions for getting started on archival research.

Excellent series of guides on how to look at historical documents and artifacts including letters, diaries, photographs, maps, abolitionist speeches, and more.

Primarily focuses on U.S. collections and repositories. Information gathered from WorldCat and thousands of digitized finding aids from libraries, archives and museums.

The Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts (GLMNA) seeks to bring together individuals and organizations responsible for the creation, stewardship, and use of literary archives, with the understanding that these parties have common interests and concerns.
The Group is interdisciplinary, with members including, but not limited to, archivists, curators, printers, publishers, scholars, students, and writers.

A digitized collection of manuscripts of British authors dating from roughly 1120 to 1900. Contains poems, plays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence, and other papers from major library collections, reproduced in facsimile and searchable via detailed descriptive information.