HIS 452 - Senior Thesis: Primary Sources

A collection of the 19th century periodical Harper's Weekly, covering the years from 1857-1912. It includes full-page images of each issue, including cartoons, editorials, news, illustrations, and advertisements.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers is an online archive of primary source content. It includes full-text digital facsimiles of approximately 500 urban and regional newspapers, special-interest publications, and illustrated papers that were published throughout the United States during the 19th century.

Includes every issue from 1849-1990. For current issues, use Chicago Tribune, which provides access to articles from 1985-present.

Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 70,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.

A collection of over 4600 archival films and newsreels spanning the history of moving images.

A collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.

Classical Music Library is an extensive collection of nearly 100,000 recordings of classical music, focusing on contemporary classical music and women composers. Pieces come from over 30 music labels. Free registration enables users to create their own playlists.

A digital repository of 30,000 images, which also includes references to 19 major art history texts. Currently images are only available on campus.

Browse or search this comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. More than 515,000 albums, over 6 million audio tracks, over 24,000 books, documents and music scores, and over 1700 hours of video are included.

EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.

The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

A definitive source of quantitative data about American history. Includes hundreds of manipulable tables and also contains essays about historical trends.

An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.

Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. Each issue visually and powerfully depicted national and international events and topical stories, providing intimate views of real people and their real life situations. Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified, ensuring researchers and readers can quickly and accurately locate the information they seek. Life Magazine Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-Century current events, politics and culture, as well as those interested in the history of business, advertising, and popular culture.

Our subscription to the Digital Sanborn Maps includes most towns and cities in Illinois from 1867-1970. The maps contain information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house numbers. Currently images are only available from on campus.

Includes more than 5 million pages about the history of slavery, collected from books, pamphlets, newspapers, legal documents, court records, manuscripts, periodicals, monographs and maps. Also provides research guides, subject outlines and scholarly essays on slavery to help researchers learn more about archival collections in these areas. There are four main areas of this collection: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; The Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, The Institution of Slavery; and The Age of Emancipation.

This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery into the 20th century. It also includes pamphlets and books written about slavery—defending it, attacking it or simply analyzing it --- and legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, which includes many essays and articles in obscure, hard-to-find journals in the United States and elsewhere. Additionally, word searchable access is available to all Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880.

One of the best-known newspapers in the world, the Times (London) is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. The Times Digital Archive includes more than 11.8 million articles covering global topics, reflecting public opinion over 225 years, 1785-2011.