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Honors 292T: America at the Turn of the Century  Tags: comcol commonwealth_college honors 292t history election primary_sources  

Guide to library research for Honors 292T, America at the Turn of the Century.
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Primary Sources

  • American Memory  
      
    Large collection of reproductions of primary source material from U.S. Library of Congress: pictures, pamphlets and recordings. Earliest dates from 1400s.
  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries  
      
    Primary source material for life as it was lived by 1,000 women in North America, 1675-1950.
  • UMass Amherst Special Collections & University Archives  
      
    Catalog of SCUA, which includes many digitized primary materials related to the history of social change, the people and cultures of New England, and the University of Massachusetts.
  • Women & Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000  
      
    Primary and secondary sources on women's involvement in historical events. Includes books, pamphlets, papers, and articles.
  • American Decades Primary Sources  
      
    Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume in the set includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements...
 
 

Newspapers

Find contemporary accounts of aspects of American life through history by searching historical newspapers. The Libraries maintain a list of newspaper databases. Good places to start include:

  • Historical New York Times  
      
    The entire New York Times, searchable, in image files, from 1851 to three years ago.
  • LexisNexis Academic  
      
    Massive database of US and international newspapers; also includes transcripts of TV and radio news programs, university newspapers, and much more.
  • African American Newspapers  
      
    Seven nineteenth-century African American newspapers in full text, including advertising, 1827-1902.
  • Black Studies Center  
      
    Combines important tools for Afro-American studies (Schomburg, IIBP, etc) to provide access to scholarly journals, dissertations, historical newspapers, and articles.
  • Historical Chicago Defender  
      
    Influential black weekly newspaper, searchable, in image files, 1905-1975.
 

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