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Highlight on Primary Sources! The databases below contain various primary sources. A primary source is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 - 5
The AAS Historical Periodicals Collections: Series 1-5 (1691-1877) feature over 7500 titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century. The subject matter is broad in scope and covers all aspects of American society during this time period.
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1
The majority of the resources are provided in Spanish. “...draws its content from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the largest national project ever to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form, from colonial times to 1960.”
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2
The majority of the resources are provided in Spanish. "Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection is an archive of publications focused exclusively on U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Series 2 focuses on Hispanic American civil rights, religion and women’s rights from the 18th through the 20th century.”
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources
In this website, ProQuest presents primary source documents from several of the time periods in American History when the river of the Black Freedom Struggle ran more powerfully, while not losing sight of the fierce, often violent opposition that Black people have faced on the road to freedom. This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom.
Credo Reference
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
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Fold3 Library Edition
Distributed by ProQuest, Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to a growing collection of US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.
Gale In Context: U.S. History
Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources.
Gale Literature: LitFinder
Gale Literature: LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Hathi Trust
Search over 5 million digitized titles.
Heritage Quest Online
This genealogy database provides access to US Federal Census records from 1870-1930 and to over 25,000 family and local histories. (Full-text)
Houston Chronicle
Local, national, and international news, with searchable archives for at least 10 years. (Full-text)
JSTOR
Includes articles from hundreds of scholarly research journals covering a wide range of academic fields. Coverage is always from volume 1, issue 1, but usually does not include the most recent three years. (Full-text)
MasterFILE Complete & MasterFILE Premier Reference eBook Collection
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference ebooks and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC)
Over 10,000 articles from leading reference works by experts in the field of African American Studies, plus over 1,750 images, more than 300 primary sources with specially written commentaries, nearly 150 maps, and 150 charts and tables. (Full-text)
Portal to Texas History
The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.
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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Newspapers.com Texas Edition
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The Newspapers.com Texas Edition newspapers span almost 150 years (from 1865 to 2014) and cover dozens of Texas cities, making this an invaluable resource for anyone researching their Texas ancestors or wanting to learn more about events and trends in the state’s remarkable history. The oldest issues of included Texas papers come from
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Galveston Daily News
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Houston Post
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The Houston Chronicle
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From Abilene to Wichita Falls, use Newspapers.com to explore the papers that documented the progress of the state of Texas and its residents. (Full-text)
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