History Resources: Primary Sources

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Helmke Library has significantly expanded its access to ProQuest's Historical Newspapers collections. In addition to the Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times with Index, and Washington Post, members of the campus community now have access to the following newspapers: ProQuest Civil War Era newspapers, Atlanta Daily World, American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger, American Israelite‎, Arizona Republican‎, Atlanta Constitution, Austin American Statesman‎, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Christian Science Monitor, Communist Historical Newspaper Collection, Globe and Mail‎, Guardian and Observer, Hartford Courant, Irish Times and Weekly Irish Times, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Advocate, Jewish Exponent, Korea Times, Los Angeles Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Nashville Tennessean, Newsday, New York Amsterdam News, New York Tribune/Herald Tribune, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle, Scotsman, South China Morning Post, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times, Times of India, Toronto Star, and Wall Street Journal.

A collection of 500 U.S. newspapers from the 19th century. Full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

This collection features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.

Information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. This directory can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.

Features credible information from a wide variety of international, national, and local news sources in all subject areas including political science, English, sociology, humanities, business, international studies, current events, science, and more.

Cross-searches Gale’s historical newspaper and periodical collections owned by the library. Provides access to more than 2,000 titles and over 10 million digitized facsimile pages.

Meet the Press provides over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.

This resource consists of two major collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K.

With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Provides access to the entire run of this unique historical record.

Contains every issue of the pioneering British photojournalism newspaper Picture Post (1938-1957). Features photographs from many extraordinarily talented photographers, all digitized from originals in full colour.

Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times of London newspaper,

The complete online fully-searchable edition of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 onwards. This is the essential companion for studying and researching literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The collection captures full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. Key collections include: Universal Newsreels, Universal Studios, Les Actualites Francaises, Nippon News and The March of Time.

Cross-searches Gale’s historical newspaper and periodical collections owned by the library. Provides access to more than 2,000 titles and over 10 million digitized facsimile pages.

Provides full-text access to nearly 6,000 information resources including newspapers, news magazines, wire services, and transcripts of major radio and TV broadcasts.

This newspaper index provides a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Provides access to full-text articles in the Christian Science Monitor (1990 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), New York Times (Late ed. East Coast 1980 to present), New York Times Book Review (1997 to present), New York Times Magazine (1997 to present), Wall Street Journal (Eastern ed.) (1984 to present), and Washington Post (1996 to present).

Full-text access to the New York Times from 1980 to present. Browse the newspaper cover to cover and search for articles by topic, date, or article type. Articles are plain text only with no images. Supplements, including the New York Times Book Review (1997-present) and New York Times Magazine (1997-present) are also present.

Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selective full text for more than 300 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth for a record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

An archival collection of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive) including current events, international relations, and public policy. Date coverage varies and includes 1918-2015.

Consists of the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, WIN News, and Woman's Day.

Searchable archive of every page, advertisement, and cover of the Harper's Bazaar US and UK editions, from 1867 to the present. A chronicle of American, British, and international fashion, culture, and society, supporting researchers by offering unique insights into the events, attitudes, and interests of the modern era.

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, including every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out.

Includes contemporary coverage of alternative, radical, and left popular and scholarly periodicals, including African-American studies, anarchism, ecology, ethnic studies, feminism, gay-lesbian studies, labor studies, radical democracy and socialism.

Contemporary coverage of gender issues in both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

Provides full text access to articles in more than 2,300 general-interest periodicals, updated daily, covering business, health, and multicultural issues.

One of Gale's Archives Unbound collections, this collection contains more than 9,000 documents relating to diplomatic relations between the United States and Afghanistan from 1945-1963.

Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covers major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.

Includes over 36 collections with, with over 80,000 indexed documents. See Collections Guide within DNSA for more info. From ProQuest.

This collection from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) library contains more than 88,000 documents pertaining to the federal surveillance of African Americans from 1920-1984.

1975 to current. An annual publication that includes significant documents from each month of the year.

This resource provides a manuscript archive of original materials from 1509 to 1782 covering British and European history.

Contains more than 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs including 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials from more than 2,000 authors. The writings are from politicians, generals, slaves, farmers, seamen, wives, and spies and give views on every aspect of the war.

A collection of the diaries and correspondence of approximately 500 British and Irish women. Includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years, as well as biographies and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Provides a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada based upon personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Includes several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time.

Contains more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters detailing experiences of more than 1,300 women, dating from Colonial times to 1950. Includes many biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Gale Primary Sources combines Gale's digital archives in a single cross-search interface that provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. Users can explore a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.

The archive includes monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections on Native Americans in the United States and Canada.

This resource contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference.

British Foreign Office information files gathered from across German-occupied territories and neutral states, including first-hand reports (letters from diplomats, telegrams, news clippings and more) and the official discussions surrounding them.

Provides full-text searching of electronic facsimiles of over 180,000 titles published in Great Britain and North America in the eighteenth century.

This pamphlet collections relates specifically to Brazil concerning history, politics and literature from 1801 to 1983.

Contains primary documents relating to the Americas dating from 1500 to 1926.

A full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

Includes two collections: 1) 1450-1850, the Goldsmiths’-Kress Collection, with digitized materials from the University of London and Harvard University, and 2) 1851-1940, from University of London; Columbia University, Hiroshima University of Economics, and University of Kansas. Both collections include materials focused on the history of economics, industrialization, labor, trade, and colonization.

This collection is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century.

Primary sources related to aftermath of World War II in Europe. It covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after the war as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves.

A collection of primary source material that documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States, and the evolution and impact of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at the local, national, and federal levels.

Provides full-text access to more than 36,000 primary documents relating to the historical events and social movements of the 1960s.

An historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual, and global way.

Includes the World's Fairs and Expositions collection, with materials published from 1834 to 1940, and the Trade Literature and the Merchandising of Industry, with materials from 1820 through 1926.

This database includes primary and secondary source material on the history of women and social movements in the U.S. from 1600 through 2000.

This collection of primary materials includes the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made.

Primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

A collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.