LibGuides: Primary Sources: Library Databases

Historical New York Times

Historical New York Times This link opens in a new window
search the New York Times online full text from 1851-2018.

ARTstor Digital Archive Collection This link opens in a new window
Digital images and information about works of visual art, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design from many times and cultures. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.

HarpWeek This link opens in a new window
Browse or search the full-text, full-image electronic version of Harper's Weekly for the years 1857-1865, covering the Civil War.

Making of America (U. Michigan)
Making of America - MoA contains primary sources in American social history (broadly defined) from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Currently 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles have been digitized. One may search a specific text or across texts and view material as text, pdf, or image. Pages can only be printed individually. Reprints can be ordered from the University of Michigan. MoA is a collaborative effort of Cornell University and the University of Michigan.
Making of America (Cornell U.)
Making of America contains primary sources in American social history.

Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
Many resources, including books, primary documents, images, scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, and more, documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.