Primary Sources

FBI reports dealing with antiwar work carried out by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War plus surveillance on other antiwar groups and individuals, with an emphasis on student groups and Communist organizations. It includes more than 20,000 reports, newsletters, and position papers from the FBI Library and created between 1967 and 1975.

Collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. Contents include health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and more.

Transcripts of oral recollections from political participants in the Cold War and over 1200 images from the private collection of James Thebaut and the Chronicles Group. Materials cover the period from the 1950s through the 1990s.

Collection includes 21 Ohio cities and regions, and comprised of vital statistics, military service records, municipal and county officers, chronologies, and more. The atlases provide additional information on land use and settlement patterns and early town and city plans. Coverage runs from 1852-1920 .

Archive of more than 2 million pages, including manuscripts, books, broadsheets, and periodicals. The multi-language collection covers Europe, North America, India, and the Antipodes. The archive also unites a number of disciplines, from law, criminology, and history to studies of popular culture and fiction.

Primarily 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.

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.