Primary sources are original, uninterpreted information, such as firsthand accounts of events in letters, diaries, interviews, or historical news reportage; original works of fiction, art, or music; research reports or data; testimony, speeches, etc.

Visit Special Collections to use original texts in print or manuscript.

Librarians for Primary Sources

Laura Reiner - History
Research & Instruction, x2108

 

Jacqueline Fitzpatrick - Literature
Research & Instruction, x3497

Ruth Rogers
Special Collections, x3592

Mariana Oller
Special Collections, x2129

Related resources

Special Collections

 

Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham

 

Statistics & Data

Library catalog

Interlibrary loan

Writing help (PLTC)

Citing sources

 

• Early American Imprints: Evans 1639-1800
• Literature Online (LION)
• American Culture series 1493-1875  (microfilm)
• American Memory – Library of Congress
• The American Revolution – H-Net
• Women & Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
• Women Writers Online 1400-1850
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Settlement… - Wisconsin
• Periodicals Archive Online

• Early American Imprints – 1801-1819
• The Nation Digital Archive 1865-present
• American Culture series 1493-1875  (microfilm)
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories - 1840-present
• American Memory – Library of Congress
• Making of America: Michigan & Cornell
• Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
• Women Writers Online 1400-1850
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
• Literature Online (LION)
• Periodicals Archive Online
• Congressional Record – debates & proceedings in the U.S. Congress 1789-present
  

• Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
• Valley of the Shadow - VA Center for Digital History
• African-American Women Archival Collections – Duke University
• American Memory – Library of Congress
• North American Slave Narratives – UNC Library
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 – full collection in Slave Narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States (microform)
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories - 1840-present
• eHistory - Ohio State University

• National Security Archive
• American Memory – Library of Congress
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories - 1840-present
• FBIS Index – 1975-1996 foreign news broadcasts
• BBC Monitoring – foreign news broadcasts in translation (in LexisNexis)
• World War I Document Archive
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 1900-1910 - & find information about American newspapers 1690-present.

• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• British History Online
• EuroDocs
  
• ARTFL: A French textual database
• Perseus Digital Library – Tufts
• Literature Online (LION)
• Women Writers Project
• Periodicals Archive Online
• World War I Document Archive

• America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922
• Boston Globe - 1872-1924
• Chicago Tribune - 1849-1986
• Chicago Defender - 1905-1975
• New York Times Historical 1851-2003 | 1980-present
• Washington Post 1877-1971
• Ethnic NewsWatch 1960 -present
• The Times of London 1785-1985

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