American Literature: A Research & Reference Guide: Primary Sources

Primary source materials from the long nineteenth century revealing the rapid acceleration of scientific, technical, and medical knowledge and covering every aspect of science. More Info

Primary source documents focused on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth to the early twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective.
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Complete text of seven 19th century African-American newspapers. More Info

A vast collection of American historical periodicals, 17th-20th century. More Info

Primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. More Info

Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women. More Info

American Periodical Series 1741-1900. More Info

Slave narratives More Info

see U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection More Info

Repositories located in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. More Info

Primary source documents on important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century. More Info

Provides curated collections of art images and associated data. More Info

Digitized images of America's historical newspapers. More Info

Contains the full text of major articles. More Info

Definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. More Info

Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Americans. More Info

22 million digital page images of every work printed in the English language as well as works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies from 1473-1700 in any language. More Info

This collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. More Info

The entire contents of Harper's Weekly (1857-1865). More Info

A digital repository of online books and other scholarly materials. More Info

Individual collections of poetry, fiction, drama & much more. More Info

Digital library of primary sources in American social history. More Info

19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. More Info

Full-text access to articles from the newspaper known as the "New York Times" of the 18th century". More Info

Detailed account of U.S. culture and history through the lens of middle America. More Info

The world's biggest archive of music journalism and pop writing of the last 60 years. More Info

Primary source documents on all aspects of the phenomenon of slavery and its abolition in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions. More Info

An ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress. More Info

Collection of 19th century American fiction. More Info