Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence about a topic or question under investigation.
They are typically created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented. Primary sources are often created at the time the events or conditions are occurring, but they can also include autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories recorded later.
Dozens of primary source collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences spanning the 15th through 21st centuries.
An archive of primarily 20th-Century news materials that provide original perspectives on historical events around the world. Includes news features dating from 1940 and internal AP publications dating from the turn of the century.
Provides access to 500,000+ pages of previously classified government documents. Covers major international events including the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Underpins studies in international relations and U S. foreign & domestic policy studies.
Archive of Forbes Magazine, covering 1917-2000.
Primary sources including presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, US government reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions arranged chronologically.
Newspapers, television and radio news transcripts.
The Listener (1929-1991) was the weekly newspaper published by the BBC. The complete archive of this landmark publication is an essential witness to the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century.
Entire run of Vogue magazine (US Edition) from 1892 to the present day.
Full-text of the newspaper's eastern edition, 1984 - present.
Primary source archive tracing the path of women’s issues from past to present.
Entire run of Women's Wear Daily from 1910 to the present day.
Dozens of primary source collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences spanning the 15th through 21st centuries.
Digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Primary source archive of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I.
Digitized newspapers from over 30 states covering political campaigns and issues from 1803-1876.
Digital version of the Chicago Tribune (1849-1989).
The Letters of Charles Dickens, (1820-1870) 2nd edition.
Digitized American newspapers from 23 states and District of Columbia covering the 18th and 19th centuries.
Collection of historical documents allows you to browse and search HarpWeek's collection of 19th century journals.
Full-text including scanned digital images of the New York Times, 1851-2020
These archives explore the ‘long’ nineteenth century’s diplomatic interactions, evolving education system, religious reform and social revolutions, and more, all while capturing the human experience through the unique intersections of gender, race, and socio-economic status.
Full-text database of primary source newspapers from the 19th century in the United States. Includes political party newspapers, dailies, special interest group newspapers, illustrated papers, and major newspapers.
Primary source documents pertaining to North, Central & South America, the Arctic, Antarctica, & West Indies. Includes original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery & abolition.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2014, is Gale's online historical archive, delivering every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London) to your library.
Dozens of primary source collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences spanning the 15th through 21st centuries.
Digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Primary source archive of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I.
Every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Primary source documents pertaining to North, Central & South America, the Arctic, Antarctica, & West Indies. Includes original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery & abolition.
Dozens of primary source collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences spanning the 15th through 21st centuries.
Digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera enable researchers to explore America's distant and not so distant past.
Digitized American newspapers from 23 states and District of Columbia covering the 18th and 19th centuries.
Consists of 25,000+ open access texts from Early English Books Online.
Primary source documents pertaining to North, Central & South America, the Arctic, Antarctica, & West Indies. Includes original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery & abolition.
| Primary Source | Secondary Source | |
| Humanities |
|
|
| Sciences |
|
|
| Primary Sources | Secondary Sources | |
| Humanities |
|
|
| Sciences |
|
|
| Primary Source | Secondary Source | |
| Literature | “Song of Myself” (Poem) | Journal article about the poem’s historical importance |
| Psychology | Results of clinical trial to treat ADD by modifying diet | Book about ways to treat childhood ADD without drugs |
| Government | U.S. Census Statistics | Book about suburban population changes in U.S. |
| History | Text of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech | Journal article about King's role in the Civil Rights Movement |
| Art | Ding Darling cartoons | Magazine article about political cartoonists of the 20th century |
| Sociology | Diary of Anne Frank | Book contrasting personal accounts of the German occupation |
