The words you type into the search box affect your search results. Not all authors use the same language to describe similar topics, so you will need to try a variety of searches. Note: As you are searching for historical documents, you may notice that some terms you find or use in your search are perjorative (disrespectful, derogatory) today.
1740 - 1940. Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Access is available to the American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries collection.
A collection of approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world.
Access to primary source documents related to central people and events in African American history. Via ProQuest.
Access to unique and historically important digital collections: over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.
An aggregated search across digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums in the United States as well as curated exhibitions and primary source sets developed for classroom use.
A resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History. Comprises thousands of fully searchable images of monographs, pamphlets, & periodicals addressing 19th and early 20th century issues.
1960 - 1974. This searchable database includes diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
Sample Searches: To start exploring these collection, try these searches/links below.
The free web is often extremely valuable.
The library often has subscription resources with historical content.
Look in larger collections for clues, hints etc. of where content might be located or for language.
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