Includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more.
If the riot, strike or conspiracy was debated in Congress, then it should be in the Congressional Record, the official record of congressional debates.
Large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities that show building footprints, building use, addresses, parks, cemeteries, industrial uses & more.
Explores the causes and nature of protest as well as the historical tension between protest and government, including underlying causes. Included are approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
Full-text archive of historical legal and governmental information, including Presidential, Congressional, and Supreme Courts documents and legal journals.
Annual publication featuring documents covering the most significant events of the year. Documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decision, scientific findings, cultural discussions, and other primary sources. 1972 - present.
Thousands of newspapers, available in full-page facsimile, with searchable full text. Most are U.S. titles, with some international coverage, and most are fairly small-circulation newspapers. 1759-present.
Over 300 annotated primary sources in black history, from letters to speeches to legal documents, from the 17th century to contemporary documents. Click on "browse" to see the documents by time period or topic.
Primary sources in the history of women in social movements in the U.S. Includes 105 document projects and archives and more 53,000 pages of additional full-text documents.
Contemporary Newspapers and Periodicals - Online Through MIT
Contains unique primary source material relating to nearly every aspect of United States history from over three centuries. Includes: * American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I (1760-1900) * America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) * Early American Imprints Series I: Evans (1639-1800) * Early American Imprints Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) * American State Papers (1789-1838) * U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980)
Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.
Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Between the early 1920s and early 1980s, the Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation engaged in widespread investigation of those deemed politically suspect. Prominent among the targets of this sometimes coordinated, sometimes independent surveillance were aliens, members of various protest groups, Socialists, Communists, pacifists, militant labor unionists, ethnic or racial nationalists and outspoken opponents of the policies of the incumbent presidents.
Fulltext, full image database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's previously classified files on prominent radicals and radical organizations from 1959 to 1971.
Newsletters issued by gay and lesbian political and social activist organizations throughout the country and periodicals devoted to gay and lesbian political and social activist agendas.
Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience from the collections of the Library of Congress and
Find full text PDFs of digitized books and other content from libraries around the world. You can search within the full text of all the items in the collection, but viewing some items is limited by copyright/licensing - check: full view only to search only for downloadable books.
Primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction, strongest in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. A collaboration with the University of Michigan.
Primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction, strongest in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books with 19th century imprints. A collaboration with Cornell University.
Back issues of the popular news magazine. (Hint: you can use the free online search to identify articles and then, to see the original article in context, take a look at the print or fiche by requesting it from storage or viewing it in Dewey or Hayden.)
Complete digital editions of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Search by full-text, subject heading, or Thesaurus-based index. Or browse by Table of Contents, theme, or date. NOTE: Access is only available in person at the BPL.
Harvard has a trove of online databases of primary source material, including historical newspapers, government documents, letters and diaries, and much more. With your Harvard Special Borrower card, you can visit Harvard libraries and use these databases on the premises (sorry, you can't use them remotely). Take a look at the list of history databases for anything promising for your primary source research!
A database of the newspapers on microfilm at Harvard's Widener Library, searchable by geography and date span. The newspaper microfilm are accessible with a Harvard Special Borrowers Card.