The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library containing photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and other items that document the history and culture of Louisiana. Items come from institutions across the state, including libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations.
You will need to choose primary sources that are relevant to people and events that are within the time frame and place of this course.
Search the library catalog and databases with the following phrases:
Abuse of Power : The New Nixon Tapes | Kutler, Stanley I. | E860 .A26 1998 | View Book in Catalog | |
All the gallant men : an American sailor's first hand account of Pearl Harbor | Stratton, Donald | D767.92 .S77 2016 | View Book in Catalog | |
American spy : my secret history in the CIA, Watergate, and beyond | Hunt, E. Howard | E840.8 .H86 A3 2007 | View Book in Catalog | |
Angela Davis--an autobiography. | Davis, Angela Y. | E185.97 .D23 A3 1988 | View Book in Catalog | |
Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt | Roosevelt, Eleanor | E807.1 .R36 1961 | View Book in Catalog | |
Autobiography of Harry S. Truman | Truman, Harry S | E814 .A32 2002 | View Book in Catalog | |
Autobiography of Malcolm X | X, Malcolm | E185.97 .L5 A3 2015 | View Book in Catalog | |
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. | King, Martin Luther, Jr., | E185.97 .K5 A52 1998 | View Book in Catalog | |
Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt | Roosevelt, Theodore | E757 .A3 2011 | View Book in Catalog | |
Big Sea : An Autobiography | Hughes, Langston | PS3515 .U274 Z5 1993 | View Book in Catalog | |
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: their words, their thoughts, their feelings | Loewenberg, Bert James | E185.96 .B54 1976 | View Book in Catalog | |
Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years | Fontenot, Viola | HD1478 .U6 F66 2018 | View Book in Catalog | |
Chickenhawk | Mason, Robert | DS559.5 .M37 2005 | View Book in Catalog | |
The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island: A Brief History with Documents | Judy Yung | E184 .C5 Y859 2019 | View Book in Catalog | |
Coretta: My life, My Love, My Legacy | King, Coretta Scott | E185.97 .K47 A3 2017 | View Book in Catalog | |
Crusade for justice : the autobiography of Ida B. Wells | Wells-Barnett, Ida B | E185.97 .B26 A3 1970 | View Book in Catalog | |
Crusade in Europe | Eisenhower, Dwight D. | D743 .E35 1952 | View Book in Catalog | |
Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind | James R. Hansen (editor) | TL789.85 .A75 A4 2020 | View Book in Catalog | |
Dispatches | Herr, Michae | DS559.5 .H47 1991 | View Book in Catalog | |
Every Man a King : the Autobiography of Huey P. Long | Long, Huey Pierce | E748 .L86 A3 1996 | View Book in Catalog | |
Eyes on the prize : civil rights reader : documents, speeches, and firsthand accounts from the Black freedom struggle, 1954-1990 | Carson, Clayborne | E185.615 .E95 1991 | View Book in Catalog | |
Frost among the Eskimos : memoirs of Helen Frost, missionary nurse on the Seward Peninsula, 1926-1961. | Frost, Helen | E99 .E7 F78 2001 | View Book in Catalog | |
Hard times: an oral history of the great depression | Terkel, Studs | E806 .T45 1970 | View Book in Catalog | |
Helmet for my pillow : from Parris Island to the Pacific | Leckie, Robert | D811 .L3547 A3 2010 | View Book in Catalog | |
Hunters and shooters : an oral history of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam | Fawcett, Bill | DS558 .H86 1995 | View Book in Catalog |
It seemed important at the time : a romance memoir | Vanderbilt, Gloria, | CT275 .V234 A3 2004 | View Book in Catalog | |
Let the Word go Forth: the speeches, statements, and writings of John F. Kennedy, 1947-1963 | Kennedy, John F. | E838.5 .K42 1991 | View Book in Catalog | |
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement | Janet Dewart Bell | E185.61 .B375 2018 | View Book in Catalog | |
Memphis diary of Ida B. Wells | Wells-Barnett, Ida B | E185.97 .W55 A3 1995 | View Book in Catalog | |
My life on the road | Steinem, Gloria | HQ1413 .S675 A3 2016 | View Book in Catalog | |
My Memoir | Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt | E767.3 .W55 1939 | View Book in Catalog | |
Nixon tapes : 1971-1972 | Brinkley, Douglas | E856 .N59 2015 | View Book in Catalog | |
Nixon tapes : 1973 | Brinkley, Douglas | E856 .N59 2016 | View Book in Catalog | |
Not in Vain: a Rifleman Remembers World War II | Standifer, Leon C., | D811 .S763 1992 | View Book in Catalog | |
Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman | Truman, Harry S | E742.5 .T6 1980 | View Book in Catalog | |
Only what we could carry : the Japanese American internment experience | Inada, Lawson Fusao. | D769.8 .A6 O55 2000 | View Book in Catalog | |
Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years | Hughes, Emmet John | E835 .H8 1963 | View Book in Catalog | |
Primary source accounts of the Vietnam War | O'Connell, Kim A. | DS557.4 .O25 2006 | View Book in Catalog | |
Ralph J. Bunche : selected speeches and writings | Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson) | E748 .B885 A25 1995 | View Book in Catalog | |
Reagan diaries | Reagan, Ronald. | E877 .A3 2007 | View Book in Catalog | |
RECONDO: LRRPs in the 101st | Chambers, Larry | DS559.8 .R43 C48 1992 | View Book in Catalog | |
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. | Nixon, Richard M. | E856 .A35 1978 | View Book in Catalog | |
Rumor of War | Caputo, Philip. | DS559.5 .C36 1977 | View Book in Catalog | |
Secrets : A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers | Ellsberg, Daniel | DS558 .E44 2002 | View Book in Catalog | |
Seize the time : the story of the Black Panther party and Huey P. Newton | Seale, Bobby, | E185.615 .S37 1991 | View Book in Catalog | |
Soul on Ice | Cleaver, Eldridge | E185.97 .C6 A6 1991 | View Book in Catalog | |
Thirteen Days : a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis | Kennedy, Robert F | E183.8 .R9 K42 1968 | View Book in Catalog |
Up from slavery | Washington, Booker T. | E185.97 .W4 A3 2008 | View Book in Catalog | |
Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s | Hampton, Henry | E185.61 .H224 1990 | View Book in Catalog | |
We were in the big one : experiences of the World War II generation | Parillo, Mark P. | D769 .A2 W4 2002 | View Book in Catalog | |
What it is Like to go to War | Marlantes, Karl | DS559.5 .M358 2011 | View Book in Catalog | |
Where the buck stops : the personal and private writings of Harry S. Truman | Truman, Harry S | E742.5 .T62 1989 | View Book in Catalog | |
Where White Men Fear to Tread : The Autobiography of Russell Means | Means, Russell | E99.O3 M386 1996 | View Book in Catalog | |
White House Diary | Carter, Jimmy | E873 .A31 2011 | View Book in Catalog | |
With No Apologies: The Personal and Political Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater. | Goldwater, Barry M | E748 .G64 A37 1979 | View Book in Catalog | |
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa | Sledge, E. B. | D767.99 .P4 S55 2010 | View Book in Catalog |