Primary Resources

Contains information about life in 17th and 18th century American, including agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and witchcraft.

Contains pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers covering the literature, science, religion, arts, & history of the time from 1741 to 1900.

A collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912 covering advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.

Collection of primary sources from 1500-1926, including pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, correspondence, broadsides and more, which focus on American history and culture.

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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.

Contains large scale street plans of Ohio cities produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company from 1867 to 1970.

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. The atlases provide additional information on land use and settlement patterns and early town and city plans.

Contains about 1,300 sources with 1,100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.

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.

A full text database focusing on the history and culture of Latino Americans. Hundreds of primary documents, including treaties, legal decisions, letters, and speeches. Subscription ends 8/31/20.

Presents important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond with material drawn from hundreds of institutions and organizations, including both major international activist organizations and local, grassroots groups.

Primary source material on women's suffrage, labor conditions, women's organizations, women's rights, diversity, and other topics in women's history.

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.

Covers biographical information on North America indigenous people from 17th century to present. Includes biographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs.

Provides access to papers focusing 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.

Presents a broad history of crime in the 19th Century through trial transcripts, court proceedings, police and forensic reports, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera.

This collection contains the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code Administration files for 500 selected titles, documenting forty years of self-regulation and censorship in the motion picture industry.

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.

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.

This collection contains primary source documents covering attempts by Indian nationalists to foment revolution in and overthrow British rule during World War I.

The collection consists of FBI reports dealing with every aspect of antiwar work carried out by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), and also includes surveillance on a variety of other antiwar groups and individuals, with an emphasis on student groups and Communist organizations.

This collection presents the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) publications of all 47 states involved in the project, which ran from 1933 to 1943.

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.