Primary Sources

• 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series 1: New Readerships 
• 1944-1946 Rosters of Japanese Americans interned at relocation camps during WW II
• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Papers, 1912-1990
• African American Historical Serials Collection, 1829-1922. Click here for detailed description and title list.
• African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 
• African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 
• African Newspapers, 1800-1922 
• Air and Space Magazine Archive, 1986-2011 
• Aluka: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes 
• Aluka: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa 
• American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection 
• American Decades Primary Sources
• American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism, 1969-1979
• American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1940 
• American Song
• ArchiveGrid
• Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 (Parts I and II)
• ARTstor
• Atlanta Constitution Historical Archive
• Atlanta Daily World (1931 - 2003) had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation.
• Baltimore Sun Historical Archive, 1837-1991
• Black Abolitionist Papers 
• Black Drama contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
• Boston Globe, 1980-present 
• Boston Globe Historical Archive 
• CESAR database
• Chicago Defender Historical Archive, 1910-1975
• Chicago Tribune Historical Archive 
• China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals, 1817-1949
• China and the Modern World. Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China, 1854-1949

• Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955

• Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
• Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)
• Chinese Students' Monthly
• Communist Historical Paper Collection 1919-2013
• Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution
• Database of Recorded American Music
• Detroit Free Press Historical Archive, 1831-1922
• Digital National Security Archive
• Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) 
• The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2020 (Gale)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 
• Ethnic Newswatch (United States Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989)
• Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952: British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. Covers British concerns over colonial-held territory in the Far East, as well as Japanese relations with China, Russia, Germany and the United States. Consists of diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, summaries of events and diverse other material.
• Hein Online 
• Historic Documents 
• Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) [Millennial Edition] 
• Illustrated London News 
• Independent Voices
• International Historical Statistics 
• Japanese American Experience during WW2: documents from the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library Collection
• Kikuzo II Visual 
• KKK Newspapers (Newspapers from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s)
• Japanese American Relocation Camp Newspapers
• The League of Nations/ United Nations Archive 
• Lexis Nexis Academic (over 1400 newspapers from around the world)
• LGBT Life Full-Text
• Los Angeles Times, 1985-present
• Los Angeles Times Historical Archive
• Meet the Press, 1947-2013
• The Nation Archive
• National Geographic Archive (1884-present)
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• New Republic Archive
• New York Times Historical Archive
• New Yorker Archive
• NewspaperArchive Pro
• People's Daily 
• People's Liberation Army Daily 
• Pittsburgh Courier (1911 - 2010) is one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers.
• Policing the Shanghai International Settlement
• Polling the Nations
• Proquest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional) 
• Proquest Historical Newspapers, Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1921-2003
• Readers Guide Retrospective
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
• San Francisco Chronicle Historical Archive, 1865-1922
• Siku Quanshu (CD-ROM) 
• Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight 
• Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature and the Merchandising Industry 
• Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Exhibitions
• Smithsonian Magazine Archive, 1970-2010
• Social Explorer
• Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
• The Times of India, 1838-2008
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online (Formerly Declassified Documents Reference System)
• Wall Street Journal Historical Archive
• Washington Post Historical Archive
• Women and Social Movements in the United States
• Women and Social Movements International 

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