Finding Primary Sources in History

Definitions
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Unpublished
Other Types
By Period

 

Nineteenth Century

Index Only 19th Century Master File Popular journals and magazines, 1786-1922
Times (London Index) Index to newspaper, (AI21 .T46, King Index, older on second floor), some indexed in 19Century Masterfile 1785 -
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog

British books printed between 1801-1919 publiched in Britain., its colonies and United States of America
African Studies 19c -
Index Islamicus 19c-
L'Annee Philologique 19c-, ancient cultures, scholarly
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals 1840-1907
Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints List of books published in Ohio 1796-1850
Index with Full Text HarpWeek Full text of Harpers Weekly, 1857-1912
African American Poetry 1760-1920
Annals of American History Highly selected, Primary text, images, audio and video files, 1493-2002
Artful French language texts in Literature, Philosophy, and Arts and Sciences.., 13C-20C
Full Text Searching American Periodicals Online Primary source full text magazines and journals from 18c-19c., those not in this database on micro.
Godeys Ladies Book Accessible Archives, 1830-1880
Civil War Newspaper Collection Accessible Archives (Charleston Mercury, NY Herald, Richmond Enquirer), 1860-1865
African American Newspapers Accessible Archives
American County Histories Accessible Archives, to 1900
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record Accessible Archives, 1819 -1870

JSTOR

Full text of scholarly journals, many 19c
Hein Online Full text of law journals, many 19c.
U.S. Serial Set Most important government documents, part of Lexis Nexis Congressional-- 1700's present
Scottish Women of the Romantic Period includes criticism
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries has day by day search
CIS History Universe: African American Studies Selected collection, 1700's to present

Early American Fiction

novels and short stories of 80 American writers, 1774-1850
Women and Social Movements Selected, some images, 1600-2000
North American Immigrant Letters and Diaries 1800-1950
North American Women's Drama 235 plays by 67 playwrights
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Selected, 1675-1950
Visual ArtStor http://www.artstor.org/
AP Multimedia Archive Associated Press' Photo Archive, primarily 20th century, some 19th
American Memory Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Ohio Memory http://www.ohiomemory.org/
Greater Cincinnati Memory Project http://memory.gclc-lib.org/
David Rumsey Maps http://davidrumsey.com/ excellent maps
Sanborn Insurance Maps Block by block maps detailing use of buildings in US cities, 1867-1970
Historical and Archival Images Ohio