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History: Primary Sources
A guide to library research tools for history.
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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.
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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
Baltimore Sun Historical Archive
, 1837-1991
Black Abolitionist Papers
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. Records of
the Maritime Customs Service of China, 1854-1949
Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)
Chinese Students' Monthly
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)
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)
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
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
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
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