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
• 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
• Women and Social Movements in the United States
• Women and Social Movements International 

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