Primary Sources are original sources: they were created by someone who participated in or observed an event. They include diaries, letters, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and other manuscripts.
These collections will include various types of primary sources (newspaper articles, images, government documents, letters, etc.).
Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century periodicals. Included in the collection is Godey's Lady's Book, The Civil War: A Soldier's Perspective, African American newspapers, American county histories and various other newspapers, gazettes and collections.
The database is in four parts:
Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition
Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Part III: The Institution of Slavery
Part IV: The Age of Emancipation.
The database contains the following subject collections:
Collections included:
The Shakespeare Collection
City and Business Directories: Alabama, 1837-1929; Mississippi, 1860-1929; North Carolina, 1886-1929; Tennessee, 1849-1929; Virginia, 1801-1929
American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries’ Letters, 1833-1893
Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation
Commercial and Trade Relations Between Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and the U.S., 1910-1963
Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama
Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910
Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents
Hollywood, Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968
Integration of Alabama Schools and the U.S. Military, 1963
James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
World War I and Revolution in Russia, 1914-1918
Based on Joseph Sabin's bibliography, contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Includes 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 more.
These collections will include various types of primary sources (newspaper articles, images, government documents, letters, etc.). These are all freely accessible websites