Primary Sources

*Trial available until Oct. 7, 2023* Accessible Archives provides full text searchable databases of primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications. Collections include African American Newspapers, American County Histories, and Women's Magazines & Newspapers.

A great resource for current news, Proquest Newstand includes over 1,800 U.S. and international newspapers and other news sources, many in full text. Coverage from 1980-present. Major newspapers include New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and many others.

Search and browse hundreds of U.S. newspapers published from 1690 through the 20th Century, including titles from all 50 states. Features the complete content of each issue, including news stories, illustrations, advertisements, cartoons and much more. NOTE: America's Historical Newspapers currently . . .

Primary source collection that includes full text access to 280 newspapers published by or for African Americans. Content spans from 1827 to 1998.

Primary source collection of over 170 periodicals by or about African Americans. It includes full text access to popular magazines, academic and political journals, and more. Content spans from 1825 to 1995.

Primary source collection that includes full text access to hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers. Content spans from 1808-1980 and includes both English and Spanish language material.

This collection from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) contains full text periodicals (e.g., magazines and journals) published between 1691 to 1912. This five series collection covers several aspects of American life from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Topics include . . .

Primary source collection that includes full text access to over 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1740-1943. This collection chronicles the development of America across 150 years over three broad periods: America's transition from colonial times to independence, the Civil War . . .

An historical collection of more than 2,400 newspapers, listed from A-Z in a searchable and browseable archive.

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providin . . .

The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. An unprecedented collection developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, it offers never before available research opportunitie . . .

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.

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 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of . . .

A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphl . . .

Focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century, NCCO comprises a variety of material types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location. Collections in this database include: British Politics and Socie . . .

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across Gale Primary Source Collections and to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Content includes Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth . . .

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand nam . . .

Provides access to over 2.4 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Registration is required to download images, save and organize customized image groups, and use any of the instructor-le . . .

Contains over 8,000 films, documentaries, interviews, newsreels, and more. More than half of the videos are contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s. Semantic indexing allows users to search videos by subject, language, person, and publisher. Video content producers include PBS, California . . .

American Music (also includes African American Music Reference) is a cross-searchable database of historical and current American music. Content includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pio . . .

Includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Re . . .

Contains performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection contains performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with mast . . .

Contains recordings as well as text from major reference works, personal narratives, manuscripts, songsheets, lyrics, and more. Genres included are blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Currently included are over 269,000 albums with over 3,000,000 tracks, from over 18,000 performers and ensembles. Content includes music from six continents and 37 genres. The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bo . . .

Over 66,000 albums (over 912,000 tracks) from over 10,900 performers and ensembles. Content includes new releases of swing, avant-garde jazz, bebop, New Orleans jazz, vocal jazz, big band, and west coast jazz from performers such as Art Pepper, Frank Sinatra, Jabbo Smith, Respect Sextet, Red Norvo C . . .

Search across multiple video, audio, and reference collections including the African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music in Video, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, Garland Encyclopedia . . .

Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.

Streaming video collection containing videos from multiple subject areas including business, criminal justice, history, and education. The Films on Demand Master Academic Collection contains 10,000+ videos and the Nursing Video Collection contains 800+ videos.

Smithsonian Global Sound includes more than 35,000 tracks in the categories of American folk, blues, bluegrass, old time country, American Indian, world, jazz, spoken word & sounds and children’s music. It includes the published recordings owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the archival au . . .

Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Among the labels whose catalogs are included in the service are leading independent classical . . .

Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.

A vast digital archive of documents and other primary sources from all major world's fairs held between 1851 and 2015. Selected from archives all around the world, this resource covers all aspects of dozens of world's fairs including nine specialized case studies, scholar's essays, biographies of ke . . .

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set contains House & Senate Reports; House and Senate Documents; Senate treaty documents and Senate executive reports. These include annual reports of agencies; presidential messages, including vetoes; president’s state of the union address. This is a database of primar . . .

The American State Papers contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. Documents in this collection cover topics such as commerce, public lands, finance, military and foreign affairs. The collection includes documents that cover the critical historical . . .

Theses and dissertations produced by Fresno State students from 1950 to present. Note that most theses from 1971 to 2013 are not available on line. These can be found in OneSearch by searching "Books & Media" then choosing resource type "Theses and Dissertations."

The single most important series of American government publications, the U.S. Congressional Serial Set is an incomparably rich, largely untapped collection of primary source material on the people, issues and events of American history and politics. Readex's digital edition of this national treasur . . .