Early American Imprints - Series I: Evans 1638 - 1800 1639 - 1800
Major Primary Source Collections
Full-text digitized images of primary sources from 17th and 18th-century America. Includes advertisements, almanacs, broadsides, catalogs, charters, laws, maps, narratives, pamphlets, plays, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, and more. Search by keyword or browse by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place of publication, or language. This collection is based on the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans.
Early American Imprints - Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801 - 1819 1801 - 1819
Major Primary Source Collections
Full-text digitized images of primary sources published in the early part of the 19th century. Includes broadsides, diaries, letters, memoirs, primers, sermons, slave narratives, treaties, and wills. Search by keyword or browse by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place or publication, or language. The collection is based on the bibliography by Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) 1473 - 1700
Major Primary Source Collections
This collection contains digital reproductions, dating from 1473-1700, of the original printing of more than 100,000 works, from the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare. Subject areas represented include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
HeritageQuest Online
Major Primary Source Collections
A collection of research sources for tracing family history. These include family and local history books, U.S. Federal Census records, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) - an index to genealogy and local history journals, and Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application files.
Documenting the American South
Major Primary Source Collections
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this website provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. The collection includes oral history interviews, slave narratives, letters, memoirs, literary works, and artifacts.
American Memory
Major Primary Source Collections
American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials which include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections.
American State Papers 1789 - 1838
Documents, Reports, Census, Maps
American State Papers are "Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817." Topics include the Cherokee Indians, Armed Forces, Food & Agriculture, Science, and Social Issues.
Sanborn Maps North Carolina 1884 - 1958
Documents, Reports, Census, Maps
Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817 - 1980
Documents, Reports, Census, and Maps
The US Congressional Serial Set is a series of volumes that contain reports and documents of the House and Senate. In addition to congressional publications are reports submitted to the Congress by government agencies and commissions. Browse topics including the Cherokee Indians, Economics, Armed Forces, Environment, Publishing, and Communication, and Safety. Users can browse the serial set by names of acts, author, or congress.
United Nations Official Document System 1993 - present
Documents, Reports, Census, Maps
Provides the full text of all types of official United Nations documentation beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are added to the system daily. ODS provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, and other councils from 1946 onwards. ODS is available for free on the Internet and has been selected by Hunter Librarians as appropriate for authority and content in the subject area of biography.
America's Historical Newspapers 1690 - 1922
Newspapers & Magazines
Search or browse the full text of over 1,000 early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922. This database includes titles from all fifty states and there are nine titles for North Carolina alone. Also included are several early newspapers in languages such as French and German.
American Periodical Series Online 1740 - 1900
Newspapers & Magazines
American Periodical Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Some of the items in this database would not be considered primary. Check with your professor if you are not sure.
New York Times Historical 1851 - 2006
Newspapers & Magazines
Provides full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Diaries & Personal Histories
A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Diaries & Personal Histories
Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Contains materials from Colonial times to 1950.
African American Song
Music & Images
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains approximately 16,000 tracks from a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Additional tracks and labels are added to the database regularly.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Music & Images
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels, as well as music collected by recordists internationally.