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.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment explores relationships between Native American, African, and European peoples from 1534-1850, using primary sources and personal accounts.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digitized library representing most of the significant English- and foreign-language texts published in Great Britain and the colonies during the eighteenth century. Subject access to this collection is provided by the British Library’s online English Short Title Catalogue.
This collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America in the 17th and 18th centuries includes items listed in Charles Evans’s American Bibliography and Roger Bristol’s supplement. The database is cross-searchable with Shaw-Shoemaker (Early American Imprints, Series II), American Pamphlets, Series I: 1820-1922, and American Broadsides & Ephemera.
Access requires on-campus authentication.
Digitized versions of early American Newspapers from The American Antiquarian Society, private collections and The Library of Congress, Brown, Harvard, et al. Based on the microfilm collection of the same name.
Access requires on-campus authentication.
This collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines, journals, and newspapers published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines.
Newspapers.com Library Edition offers full page newspaper images with searchable full-text of newspapers. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to both full runs and portions of runs of newspapers.
This collections features publications of all kinds, from political party newspapers to dailies and includes major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, labor groups and other groups and interests. Also included in the collection are illustrated papers from a variety of artists.
Provides news source coverage, viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the mainstream media.
These are all freely accessible websites. Many include a variety of types of primary sources (documents, images, video, etc.)