EBSCOhost, and JSTOR are great places to find periodicals (scholarly journals).
Google Books, The Internet Archive, HathiTrust Digital Library are great places to find primary documents and historical resources!
Secondary sources, as well as older primary sources – books, journals and magazines. Many are in the original texts.
A fantastic collection of both recent and very old books, journals, newspapers, archives, and more — pulled together in one database. Search by author, title, or even phrase within texts.
A collection of many full-text books digitized from university libraries around the world. (Works in copyright are searchable but not viewable.)
Online resources to primary American history sources
National Digital Newspaper Program "provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages."
A collection of primary sources on the American eugenics movement.
Documents from American economic history.
A collection of old newspaper clippings hosted by Google. Key-word searchable.
George Mason University’s collection of documents from American history.
Provides access to the Library of Congress’s expansive collection of American historical materials that have been digitized.
A collection of primary sources on American social history from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction.
A collection of documents from American history.
More than 1,500 hours of audio and video going back as far as 1966. These recordings of meetings, debates, and panel discussions offer a wealth of literary and cultural discourse.
Collection of all official presidential papers in the National Archives.
Writings of the Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson (1892-1954).
Curates ads, pamphlets, placards, and other ephemera from social movements such as women's suffrage.
Texts related to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel.
A collection of primary sources by a lay historian – newspapers, magazines, and some books.
Debates and Proceedings, 1789-1824.
Debates and Proceedings, 1824-1837.
Debates and Proceedings, 1833-1873.
Debates and Proceedings, 1873-1875.
PDF file of published Congressional Record, 1877. This is a huge file, so please be patient when it loads.
Published Congressional Record, 1878.
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Find an issue of the Record, 1995 - Present.
"These are digital sources from ancient, medieval and modern history. You can use these sources to locate texts but be sure to at least try finding them in actual books when you cite them."
- Dr. Kevin Walker
A non-profit collection of original documents, books and other sources.
Yale Law School’s collection of ancient, medieval and modern primary sources on law and diplomacy.
Calvin College’s collection of Nazi-era propaganda.
A collection of ancient and modern historical texts.
MIT’s collection of ancient texts.
A collection of translated media from all over the Middle East.
Writings of the Church Fathers, Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, as well as the entire Catholic Encyclopedia.
Digitized primary sources on economic freedom.
Tufts University’s collection of ancient texts.
A collection of digitized primary texts.
Collection of international government documents.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s collection of primary documents.
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