Primary Sources

Provides access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.

Full-text compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the US during the 19th & 20th centuries; includes many newspapers published bilingually in Spanish & English. Trial ends 4/5/13.

Digitized records of the National Women's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance.

The first newspaper for women (ed. Amelia Bloomer 1849-1854, then Mary Birdsall 1855-1856). Initial coverage of temperance issues later expanded to include articles on child-bearing, education, and women’s rights, with many articles by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

19th century primary source collections, including books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, etc.  Contents:  Asia and the West - Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; European Literature 1790-1840 - The Corvey Collection; British Theatre, Music, and Literature - High and Popular Culture.

Letters, telegrams, reports, treaties, etc. generated by the British Foreign and Colonial offices. Topics include the 19th century Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha; the Middle East Conference of 1921; the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia; the Suez Crisis in 1956; the partition of Palestine; post-Suez Western foreign policy; the Arab-Israeli conflict; etc.

Based on Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time.  Full-text books, pamphlets, broadsides & documents, from sermons & tracts to legislation & literature. Covers all the Americas.

Manuscript & printed works, c1550-1850, highlighting the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature & philosophy.

Primary sources from British & European archives on conduct & politeness; domesticity & family; consumption & leisure; education & sensibility; the body.

Rare books, pamphlets & periodicals relating to US social & cultural history; strong on conduct & household management; contrasts urban & rural cultures.