LibGuides: American Government POL 111: Where to find primary sources

Primary Source Databases

AAASS Newsnet Archive & CDPSP Archive This link opens in a new window
Primary source documents of the Russian and Soviet press and the Current Digest of the Russian Press from 1949 to present. Site also includes historical Mexican, Chinese, and Middle Eastern/North African newspapers.
Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window
A collection of primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture, including Civil War materials and early African American newspapers.
Aluka World Heritage Sites - Africa This link opens in a new window
A versatile collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography This link opens in a new window
Collection of autobiographies of former slaves in the United States.
ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window
Provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide,
including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, Northeast Historic Film, and many more.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Primary source collection of historical documents that include: Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984; Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama and more.
Mountain People: Life and culture in Appalachia; America in Protest: Record of Anti-Vietnam War organizations, We Were Prepared for the possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961, American Relocation Camp Newspapers, Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons, 1936-1945, Jewish Underground Resistance, Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress, Holocaust and Record of Concentration Camp Trials, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis, Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis and more...
ARTFL This link opens in a new window
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
More than 2.5 million images related to art, art history, architecture, painting, photography, and visual and material culture.
Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Digital images of books printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Financial Times Historical Archives This link opens in a new window
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010 delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue through 2010. Includes advertising and marketing list.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Includes Primary Source books and documents
Hein Online Law Library This link opens in a new window
Law review journals including the United Nations Law Collection and United States Code.
HeritageQuest This link opens in a new window
Research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes city directories, 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules, U.S. Indian Census Rolls, Agricultural and Industrial Rolls and more
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts covers modern world history (excluding the United States and Canada which are covered in America: History and Life) from 1450 to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Coverage includes history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. Some current issues are available now.
Making of Modern Law This link opens in a new window
Legal Treatises 1800-1926, digital images on 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published.
Media History Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
CQ Press Historic Documents This link opens in a new window
Primary sources covering the most significant political events of the year. 1972-2009.
Digital Sanborn Maps (1869 -1970) for North Carolina This link opens in a new window
Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) for North Carolina delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in 158 North Carolina towns and cities across a century of change.
U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa.
U.S. Serial Set This link opens in a new window
A collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. Includes Congressional Hearings. Coverage 1789-present.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 This link opens in a new window
Records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, primary source for the study American history and the U.S. judicial system.