Primary Resources

Contains information about life in 17th and 18th century America, including agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and witchcraft. Content from the bibliography of Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement.

This database contains over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.

American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. The fifty thematic subsets include American magazines and journals that provide content detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century

Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 is drawn from Joseph Sabin's famed nineteenth century bibliography Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Book relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. This digital collection offers a perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. Covering more than 400 years and more than 65,000 volumes in North, Central, and South America and the West Indies, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions, and momentous events of the time through sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature, and more.

Subject-specific digital collections of historical documents covering many topics.

A universal research experience that combines Gale's digital archives in a single cross-search interface.

Primary source materials from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collection. Includes letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries. Features the Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990 Collection.

The collection consists of FBI reports dealing with every aspect of antiwar work carried out by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), and other organizations. It includes more than 20,000 reports, newsletters, and position papers from the FBI Library and created between 1967 and 1975.

A collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.

This collection provides transcripts of oral recollections from many of the political participants in the Cold War, and will assist scholars in understanding the motivations for conflict and conciliation. It includes more than 1200 images from the private collection of James Thebaut and the Chronicles Group. Materials cover the period from the 1950s through the 1990s.

Included in this collection on Ohio are 21 cities and regions covered in 305 titles. These titles comprise tables and lists of vital statistics, military service records, municipal and county officers, chronologies, portraits of individuals and views of urban and rural life.

An archive comprising more than 2 million pages from manuscripts, books, broadsheets, and periodicals. Covers a number of disciplines, from law, criminology, and history to studies of popular culture and fiction.

This collection consists mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board of Foreign Missions headquarters highlighting information on social conditions in Greater Syria (and Lebanon) and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Access provided to more than 20,000 images from the Presbyterian Historical Society.

This collection contains primary source documents covering attempts by Indian nationalists to foment revolution in and overthrow British rule during World War I. There are more than 2700 images from the US Justice Department Library and the US National Archives dating from 1908 through 1933.

This collection contains the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code Administration files (30,000+ images), documenting forty years of self-regulation and censorship in the motion picture industry. The principal source is the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

This collection presents the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) publications of all 47 states involved in the project, which ran from 1933 to 1943. Provides access to more than 37,000 images from the Library of Congress.

The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. The result is a comprehensive representation of historical events (from the 17th century to the present) as told by the individuals who lived through them.

The focus is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century. Coverage dates 1901-1991.

Contains the non-fiction works of more than 1000 American black leaders, including speeches, leaflets, essays, interviews and transcripts. The collection includes more 100,000 pages covering 250 years of history.

This collection comprises FBI surveillance and informant reports and correspondence from a variety of offices including, Charlotte, Birmingham, New York City, Baltimore, Atlanta, Louisville, and Knoxville; Justice Department memoranda, correspondence, and analyses; Domestic Intelligence Section reports; Transcriptions of wiretaps, typewriter tapes, and coded messages, and more.

A collection of reference works that focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes additional images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Access provided to more than 20,000 articles, 700 primary sources, 2500 images, and 200 maps.

This archive includes 4,285 pages sourced from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Included are surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more. These materials provide insight into the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration and the segregated South.

This collection of papers spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Scholars and students in twentieth-century American social history and politics will find this archive of special interest because of its focus on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court.

This collection consists of materials from the Records of the United Garment Workers of America, including: Time and Motion Studies; Office Files, 1899-1994 — Meeting Minutes of the General Executive Board subseries; and, Index Card Files for plants and/or locals. Access provided to more than 46,000 images from the Southern Labor Archives.

This collection is comprised of records of three women’s rights organizations: the National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. It also searches the Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895-1992, the papers of the NAACP, and the records of other major civil rights organizations.

Includes experiences of over 1,000 women through 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography. Entries date from the 17th - 2oth century.

This collection is comprised of records of three women’s rights organizations: the National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. It also searches the Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895-1992, the papers of the NAACP, and the records of other major civil rights organizations.

This collection is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors.