Primary source collections organized by time period
All Time Period Primary Source Collections
Sabin Americana: 1500-1926 [via Gale]
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“Based on Joseph Sabin’s landmark bibliography, this collection 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. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.”
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) [via Alexander Street Press]
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Early Encounters in North America (EENA): Peoples, Cultures and the Environment [via Alexander Street Press]
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Tags: Ecology, Environmental Science, Exploration, History, North America, Science, United States Of America
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Online Collections
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American Periodicals Series Online [via ProQuest]
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Massachusetts Historical Society — online collections
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Black Studies Center [via ProQuest]
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Ancestry Library [via ProQuest]
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Frontier Life [via Adam Matthew]
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American History, 1493-1945 [via Adam Matthew]
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Colonial and Early Republic Primary Source Collections
Empire Online [via Adam Matthew]
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online [via Gale]
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) provides full-text searchable access to the digital images of 150,000 books and other materials published during the 18th Century. Based on the English Short Title Catalog bibliography, it includes English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
America’s Historical Imprints [via Newsbank]
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This is a full-text collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides and periodicals published between 1639-1819. It combines two collections: “Early American Imprints Series I (1639-1800). Evans” and “Early American Imprints Series II (1801-1819). Shaw-Shoemaker”.
Early Americas Digital Archives
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Revolutionary War and Early America [via ProQuest History Vault]
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19th- and 20th-Century Primary Source Collections
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries [via Alexander Street Press]
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A full text collection of letters and diaries by hundreds of participants and witnesses to the Civil War. Includes biographies, bibliographies and a day-by-day record of events, all accessible via a detailed search engine.
HarpWeek
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Provides full-image reproductions of Harper’s Weekly from 1857-1912, one of the most important weekly magazines read by Americans during the 19th Century.
March of Time [via Alexander Street Press]
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From 1935-1967, Time Inc. offered Americans views of significant historical events in their newsreel series The March of Time. Several hundred of these newsreels can be searched and viewed as streaming videos. Transcripts of these commercial, documentary, instructional and public service videos accompany the films. In support of research and teaching, the resource enables users to create, edit, and share playlists or film clips.
Bracero History Archive [via Center for History and New Media at Georgetown University]
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60 Minutes: 1997-2014
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Provides streaming video access to the 60 Minutes news show archive for the third and fourth decades of this long-running show, plus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning. Includes transcripts of the videos for ease of citation, and a citation export feature. Topics include international and national news, politics, women’s studies, society and culture, and many more