Archives and Special Collections Research Services
Primary Source Collections
- Artemis Primary SourcesThe Artemis Primary Sources program combines major archives of eighteenth and nineteenth century monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and early photographs.
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- Early American Imprints This link opens in a new window
Resource for researching every aspect of 17th and 18th-century America. Digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.
- Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new window
Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
- ECCO / Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Works published in the UK during the 18th century. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more on all subjects.
- EEBO / Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
- Gerritsen Collection This link opens in a new window
Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the women's rights movement. Coverage ranges from 1543-1945. Publications are from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals and books in all subject areas, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources. It now includes the contents of ArtStor.
- Making of the Modern World Parts I and II This link opens in a new window
Books, journals, pamphlets, essays and more that track the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
19th century primary source collections. Collections included materials on Asia and the West; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music and Literature; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture; European Literature; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; Photography; Religion, Reform, and Society; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; Women: Transnational Networks.
- Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
Full text of the complete set of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Parliamentary Papers collection including Hansard Parliamentary Debates. A major source of primary source materials on all aspects of British society and the British Empire.
- PROME/Parliament Rolls of Medieval England This link opens in a new window
The official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509).
- U.S. Congressional Hearings (1824-1979) This link opens in a new window
Contains complete full text PDFs of all published and unpublished U.S. Congressional hearings.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window
Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1980.
- US Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window
Full text of US Congress publications including the complete set of the Congressional Record from 1789.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements provides access to primary resources around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
Primary Newspaper and Magazine Articles
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Part of the America’s Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the world.
- African Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Nineteenth and early twentieth century African newspapers.
- American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collections, 1691-1877 This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.
- Atlanta Constitution Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper from June 17,1868-Dec. 31, 1984.
- The Baltimore Afro-American This link opens in a new window
Full-text of The Baltimore Afro-American from 1893 to 1988.
- Boston Globe Historical This link opens in a new window
Full Text of the back issues of the Boston Globe from 1872 to 2007.
- British Library NewspapersBritish Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society.
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- Chicago Defender Historical This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of the African American newspaper, Chicago Defender, from 1910 to 1975.
- Chicago Tribune Historical This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of the Chicago Tribune from 1849 to 2015.
- The Economist Historical ArchiveArchive of The Economist, 1843-2015
- Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection This link opens in a new window
Spanning the Early Republic’s Open Door Era to the Era of Liberalization in the mid-1960s, Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection covers two centuries of immigrant life in the United States
- Hispanic American Historical Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window
The single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century
- Illustrated London NewsIncludes a full run of the illustrated newspaper, 1842-2003, including specials and presentation pieces.
- Los Angeles Times Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of the Los Angeles TImes from 1881 to 2015.
- New York Amsterdam News Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of African American newspaper the New York Amsterdam News from 1922 to 1993.
- New York Times Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of the New York Times from 1851 to 2020.
- Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Full text of major nineteenth century British magazine and periodicals.
- Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2002 This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of the African American newspaper, Pittsburgh Courier, from 1911 to 2002.
- 17th and 18th Century Burney CollectionThe newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
NOTE: Access is provided through the Boston Public Library with a Boston Public Library card. Get a Boston Public Library eCard
- Eight Centuries This link opens in a new window
A collection of periodical indexes created in the nineteenth century. Includes: Index to the New York Times (1863-1905); Index to Harper's Magazine (1880-1905); Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906); Stead's Index to Periodical Literature (the "British Poole's") (1890-1902); Index to the New York Daily Tribune 1875-1906; Descriptive catalog of the government publications of the U. S. (1774-1881).
- Punch This link opens in a new window
Full-text of all issues from the satirical magazine, PUNCH, from 1841-2002
- San Francisco Chronicle, 1865-1922 This link opens in a new window
Full Text of the back issues of the San Francisco Chronicle (and variant titles) from 1865 through 1922
- Springfield Republican Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Back issues of the Springfield Republican from 1844 to 1946.
- Sunday Times (London) This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of the Sunday Times (London) from 1822 to 2006.
- Times London (The Times London) This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of The Times (London) from 1785 to 2019.
- Times of India (Historical Archive) This link opens in a new window
Full text of back issues of The Times of India from 1838-2011.
- Washington Post Historical This link opens in a new window
Full text of the back issues of The Washington Post from 1877 to 2008.
- AP Newsroom This link opens in a new window
AP Newsroom contains breaking news, feature stories, photographs, graphics and audio clips produced by the AP’s network of award-winning journalists, who operate in more than 250 locations worldwide. Includes 170 years of news stories, 12 million historical and contemporary images and an extensive collection of audio clips.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing to older popular magazines published in the United States and Canada.
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