Primary Sources Databases

Database Description Coverage More Info
19th Century U.S. Newspapers

Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Each newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

1800-1899 more info
19th Century UK Periodicals

19th Century UK Periodicals covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world.

1800-1900 more info
African American Archives

African American Archives provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience.

1672-1941 more info
African American Communities

Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.

1840's-2010 more info
African American Historical Serials Collection

This collection was developed with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) as part of an effort to preserve serials related to African American religious life and culture.

1829-1922 more info
African American Newspapers

Primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary and social history; ethnic studies and more.

1827-1998 more info
African American Poetry 1750-1900

Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1750-1900 more info
African Newspapers (1800-1922)

Provides more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

1800-1922 more info
America's Historical Imprints

A comprehensive historical collection of primary source materials that covers American history, literature, culture and daily life.

1639-1900 more info
America's Historical Newspapers

Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.

1690-1922 more info
American Broadsides and Ephemera

Offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

1760-1900 more info
American Consumer Culture: Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965

American Consumer Culture provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting documents.

1935-1965 more info
American History, 1493-1945

Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this collection of documents brings to life American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II.

1493-1945 more info
American Indian Histories and Cultures

American Indian Histories and Cultures is a wide-ranging digital resource presenting a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact.

1493-2010 more info
American Periodicals Series Online

Covers over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1900.

1740-1900 more info
American Slave: A Composite Autobiography

Over 4,000 slave narratives by surname, location, age. Includes related sources, categorized by type. Also includes archives of Folk Culture Sound Recordings.

Narratives collected 1936-1938 more info
American State Papers

Republication of approximately 6,280 numbered publications, largely Congressional, but also containing Executive Department materials issued from 1832-1861.

1789-1838 more info
Archive of Americana

The Archive of Americana features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more.

1639-1980 more info
ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid connects you with primary source material held in archives, special collections, and manuscript collections around the world.

1800's-present more info
Archives Unbound

The three major types of documents in this database are monographs of books and pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers and periodicals.

1500-present more info
Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection Series 1

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection Series 1 presents a collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture.

1700s-1960 more info
Artemis Primary Sources

Artemis Primary searches 18th Century Collections Online (ECCO), 19th Century Collections Online (NCCO), the Making of the Modern World, and Sabin Americana

1500-1926 more info
ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1 consists of titles from the 13th century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions with the majority of titles from the 19th century.

1300s-1893 more info
ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2

ATLA Historical Monographs: Series 2 offers material on the significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans and the growing interest and experimentation with non-Western religions.

1894-1922 more info
British History Online

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.

11th Century - 19th Century more info
British Literary Manuscripts Online

British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works.

1150-1900 more info
British Newspapers, 1600-1950

Two collections, the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and British Library Newspapers (1780-1950), make up the British Newspapers 1600-1950 database.

1600-1950 more info
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Poole's Index.

19th Century more info
China: Trade, Politics & Culture, 1793-1980

This collection provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West.

1793-1980 more info
Colonial America

Colonial America will consist of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London.

1606-1822 more info
Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

12th Century-present more info
DigitalNC

DigitalNC is the online home for materials presented by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

1800s-present more info
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, Early American Imprints consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides.

1639-1800 more info
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819

Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early years of the 19th century.

1801-1819 more info
Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains  virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere.

1473-1700 more info
Economist Historical Archive

The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003.

1843-2003 more info
Eighteenth Century Collections Online

A variety of materials is included—from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera—with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors.

1700-1799 more info
Empire Online

Empire Online contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires.

1492-2007 more info
English Historical Documents (EHD)

English Historical Documents is a comprehensive, annotated collection of over 5,000 documents on British history.

500-1914 more info
Evans Bibliography

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, Early American Imprints consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides.

1639-1800 more info
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941-1996

FBIS Daily Reports include English-language, full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from around the world.

1941-1996 more info
Gale NewsVault

Gale NewsVault searches across a range of historical newspaper and periodical collections. It includes over ten million page images spanning four hundred years.

1604-2006 more info
Gale Primary Sources

Gale Primary Sources searches 18th Century Collections Online (ECCO)19th Century Collections Online (NCCO), the Making of the Modern World, and Sabin Ameri

1500-1926 more info
Global Commodities: Trade Exploration & Cultural Exchange

"This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.

10200 BCE-present more info
HarpWeek

Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper

1857-1877 more info
HeritageQuest

Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

1700's-present more info
Latin American Newspapers (1805-1922)

Latin American Newspapers provides access to more than 280 Latin American newspapers published between 1805 and 1922. Featuring titles from 20 countries in the region.

1805-1922 more info
Los Angeles Times Historical

Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue, with full-page and article images in PDF format.

1881-1986 more info
Making of the Modern World

The Making of the Modern World digital collection presents more than 65,000 titles from the period 1460-1914, and 466 pre-1906 serials.

1450-1914 more info
Mountain People: Life and Culture In Appalachia

This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers.

1700-1950 more info
New York Times Historical

Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue, with full-page and article images in PDF format.

1851-2004 more info
Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Nineteenth Century Collections Online focuses on primary source collections including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.

1796-1910 more info
Nineteenth Century Serials Edition

A free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers.

1806-1890 more info
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue: NSTC

C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Poole's Index.

19th Century more info
North American Women: Letters and Diaries

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD)  includes the immediate experiences of 1,017 women, as revealed in approximately 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, and manuscripts.

Colonial to 1950 more info
Oxford Text Archive

"The University of Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning."

1500's-present more info
Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700

Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isle during the 16th and 17th centuries.

1500-1700 more info
ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer)

1764-2005 more info
Readex AllSearch

Readex AllSearch a streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex's historical collections.

1690-1999 more info
Sabin Americana

This collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's.

1500-1926 more info
Shaw-Shoemaker Bibliography

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker Bibliography provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early 19th century.

1801-1819 more info
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a thematically organized, historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.

1490-1896 more info
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice

Online primary source materials including manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and other documents for the study of slavery, abolition and social justice.

1490 - 2007 more info
State Papers Online

Provides access to over 3 million pages of 16th- & 17th-century British government documents and over 200,000 searchable pages of Calendars and catalogues.

1509-1714 more info
The Times Digital Archive

The Times Digital Archive (London) provides access to the entire newspaper, with all news articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, editorial and commentary, and features.

1785-2006 more info
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

The TLS Historical Archive, 1902-2005 provides full-text access to every page of every issue of the TLS from 1902 to 2005, discovering a wealth of material in 300,000 book reviews

1902-2006 more info
U.S. Congressional Serial Set

The United States Congressional Serial Set contains House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports.

1817-1980 more info
Wall Street Journal Historical

Wall Street Journal; Eastern Edition

The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news.

1889-1994 more info
Washington Post Historical

The Washington Post has been known for its national political coverage, international reporting, and investigating reporting.

1877-1995 more info
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