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Creative Commons Sources

The Library of Congress Resource

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The Library of Congress has always been a great research tool. Terms of use for the site are as follows.

The Library’s mission is “to engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity.” The United States’ Library of Congress has a vast digital collection that includes various formats of media. These formats include audio and video recordings, books/printed materials, film, video, legislation, manuscripts, maps, notated music, newspapers, personal narratives, photos, drawings, software, web archives, and 3D objects. The site also includes plenty of educational resources that can be used to engage students. These materials include classroom materials like lesson plans that utilize primary sources.

Creative Commons Sources, Public Domain Sources

The Prelinger Archives Resource

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The Prelinger Archives is another great resource for those in pursuit of the Digital Humanities.  The Prelinger Archives are situated within the Internet Archive. Their terms of service are as follows.

The site itself is dedicated to archiving films. These films from being educational, industrial, amateur and commercial. The mission of the archive is to “collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven’t been collected elsewhere.” The archive has a vast collection of digitized and videotaped files. The collection includes public domain material based on the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain license. Items in the archive are free for download and reuse.