The University Library continues to grow its access to online collections of primary source documents. Below are links to a small sampling of these databases. For a complete listing of these electronic databases click on the link below.
Includes periodicals ranging from 1740 to the early 1900s. Periodicals include special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
The non-fiction writings of over 1100 prominent Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, entertainers and other leaders provide insight into issues as diverse as colonialism, socialism, segregation, poverty, black nationalism, religion, the urban ghetto, and the South.
Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes for the period 1817-1980.
Full-text to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first 19 years of the 19th century that chronicle the people, ideas and events behind the political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the U.S.