HIST 444: Seminar in Historiography: Primary Sources

Provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Provides the most current access to the New York Times, but does not include graphics, ads, and some commentary.

It is the mission of Archives, Records and Special Collections to ensure that information documenting the University’s activities is preserved and organized in support of business, regulatory, archival and historic needs.

The primary focus of the library collection is state and federal documents, government research, and Oregon history.

Includes: current and historical state government publications, maps,publications of other Oregon entities, including city, county, and tribal governments, and more

The Archives Division, established in 1947, houses and provides access to the permanently valuable records of Oregon government. Oldest documents at the archives include records of the provisional and territorial governments and the Oregon Constitution.

The home page for the American Memory Historical Collections from the Library of Congress. American Memory provides free access to historical images, maps, ...

Archives West provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the western United States, including correspondence, diaries or photographs. Digital reproductions of the materials are available in some cases.

The Research Library's collections encompass library and archival materials, including books, serials, newspapers, oral histories, manuscripts, government documents, genealogical and biographical material, photographs, film, and maps.

Here you will find an unmatched and irreplaceable record of Northwest history and culture.

This archive collects in five main areas: the History of OSU, the History of Science, Natural Resources, Multiculturalism in Oregon and Rare Books.

Growing collection of Washington State newspapers, emphasis before 1923

The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside.

Covers English language Hawaiian newspapers from 1836-1922 and links to a collection of historic Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948.

Since 2010, the Alaska State Library has been participating in a national program to digitize historical newspapers for a Library of Congress database called Chronicling America. This effort is ongoing, but it has already added more than 150,000 pages from forty Alaska newspapers ranging in date from 1898 to 1963.

A database that provides videos with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more.

The Video Library includes over 160,000 hours of coverage of C-SPAN programs since 1987. Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text.

Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, television series, and more. The collection of films support a wide variety of subject areas including the Arts, Media Studies, Politics, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, LBGTQAI+, Psychology, Business, Sciences, Health, Education, and History.

Provides full text to over 700 historical newspapers. Hatfield Library has series 1, which covers newspapers that began publishing in the colonial period, with some titles providing coverage into the later 1800s. Coverage: 1690-1876

Provides indexing and full text to over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900. Included are special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and other historically-significant periodicals.
Coverage: 1740-1900

Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC). Eventually, it is hoped that it will contain newspapers from all U.S. states and territories.
Coverage: 1836-1922

Reports, documents and other materials derived from the US Congressional Serial Set concerning civil rights, covering the years 1817-1994.

Provides indexing, citations and full text of Early English publications from 1475 to 1800. Included are titles listed in the Short Title Catalogue of Early English Books, 1475-1640 (Pollard and Redgrave), Short Title Catalogue of Early English Books, 1641-1700 (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts, 1640-1660. Included are texts covering English literature, languages, music, religion, science, travel and exploration and politics.
Coverage: 1475 - 1700

The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Upon completion, the Evans Digital Edition will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Coverage: 1639 - 1800

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

The fourth edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. The Millennial Edition is published by Cambridge University Press, with the permission of the Census Bureau.

A compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements. This archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and radical left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera.

Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Coverage: 1817-1994

The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) is an initiative to digitize historic Oregon newspaper content and make it freely available to the public through a keyword-searchable online database. The initial phase of the program will concentrate on newspapers published between 1860 and 1922.

A comprehensive and authoritative compendium of information about Oregon's history and culture, created through a partnership between Portland State University, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, and the Oregon Historical Society.

Selectively indexes articles on local and regional topics from the following Oregon newspapers: The Oregonian, Salem Statesman Journal, Eugene Register Guard, Coos Bay World, Corvallis Gazette Times, Klamath Falls Herald & News, The LaGrande Observer, and Willamette Week.

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Great source for translated primary documents.

Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.

A guide from Christopher Newport University with links to several sources.