Miami University Sources for Primary Source Tutorials

Possible primary collections for our use

• Alexander Street Press Collections
  Latino Literature http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/LALILive/index.html
  North American Women's Drama http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/WODRLive/index.html
  • Black thought and culture : African Americans to 1975 http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/bltclive/
  • American film scripts online http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/afsolive/
  • North American immigrant letters, diaries, and oral histories http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/imldlive/
  • Asian American drama http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/aadrlive/
  • North American women's letters and diaries http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/nwldlive/
  • Black drama : 1850 to present http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/BLDRLive/
  • Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000 http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/index.html
• Newspapers Online (Full Text)
  • New York Times Historical (1851- 3 yrs present) http://proquest.umi.com/login/ipauto?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTFBQ0Q@
  • Pennsylvania Gazette (Accessible Archives) http://www.accessible.com/
  Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective ( The Charleston Mercury * The New York Herald * Richmond Enquirer) (Accessible Archives) http://www.accessible.com/
  • African American Newspapers: (19th Century -- Freedoms Journal, Colored American, North Star, National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, Christian Recorder) ( Accessible Archives) http://www.accessible.com/
• Magazines Online (Full Text)
  • HarpWeek (1857-1912) http://app.harpweek.com/Agreement/License.asp
  • American Periodicals Series Online http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTE0NEQ@
  • Godeys Ladies Book (Accessible Archives) http://www.accessible.com/
• Indexes to Magazines/Journals Online
  • Reader's Guide Retrospective http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=RGR
  19th Century Masterfile (Pooles) http://poolesplus.odyssi.com
• Image/Maps Collections
  • AP PhotoArchives http://accuweather.ap.org/cgi-bin/aplaunch.pl
  • ArtStorehttp://www.artstor.org/
  • David Rumsey Maps http://www.davidrumsey.com/
  • Pierre Casteneda Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html
• Speeches
  • History and Politics Outloud http://www.hpol.org/
  • Talking History.org (radio programs) http://www.talkinghistory.org/
  • Historical Voices (speeches) http://www.historicalvoices.org/
  • Great Speeches (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/
• Movies (many of these are fee-based)
  Television News Archive (Vanderbilt)-- just an index and not yet active
  American Memory Motion Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
• Miscelleaneous
  • Miami's list of digital collections http://www.lib.muohio.edu/digital/
  • American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/
  • Ohio Memory http://www.ohiomemory.org/
  • Cincinnati Memory http://memory.gclc-lib.org/

Useful Websites

• Using Primary Sources on the Web http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
• History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
• Center for History and The New Media http://chnm.gmu.edu/index1.html
• Dohistory http://www.dohistory.org/
• History Detectives (PBS series) http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/
• American Memory Learning Page http://memory.loc.gov/learn/

Other Tutorials

• E-learn (MU) http://elearn.lib.muohio.edu/home.html and E-learn with flash introduction http://elearn.lib.muohio.edu/new.swf
• BMZ (MU) http://e-learn.lib.muohio.edu/science/bmz/
• Kent State (Understanding the Depression Era) http://infowizard.lms.kent.edu/iw_module.asp?config=5,
• Eng 111 (MU) http://www.users.muohio.edu/wortmawa/LE/home04.html
• TILT: University of Texas http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
• Learn Information Literacy http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au
• University of Washington http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/
• CORE (Purdue) -- I think this is just too complicated -- but by way of example http://core.lib.purdue.edu/