Native American Archives
Major Primary Source Collections
Archive of 1.8 million pages of primary source documents pertaining to Native American history and life from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Records include Indian Census Rolls and Records of the Cherokee Indian Agency of Tennessee.
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.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Major Primary Source Collections
A gold mine of primary source information for the eighteenth century. Contains every significant English and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom and many notable works from the Americas. Includes over 26 million pages of text from over 136,000 works from the British Library, Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge and the Library of Congress. All full text.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Major Primary Source Collections
Digitized collection of 19th century primary sources: books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, diaries and personal letters. Includes collections of European literature, diplomatic exchanges between Asia and the West, and British theatre, music, and literature cultural page materials. All full text.
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.
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1272-1509
Documents, Reports, Census, and Maps
Full text of the surviving "official records of the meetings of the English parliament" from 1272-1509. Includes transcriptions of the original text as recorded (in Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English), along with an English translation. View over 100 color digital images of key documents. Additional scholarly materials, including an introduction for every parliament entry, provide historical context. Browse by king, then date of parliament, or search the full text.
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.
African-American Newspapers 1827-1998
Newspapers & Magazines
A collection of U.S. newspaper articles published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience, including: life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment and more. All full text.
New York Times Historical 1851 - 2009
Newspapers & Magazines
Provides full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
African-American Periodicals 1825-1995
Newspapers & Magazines
170 periodicals by and about African Americans include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, poetry and fiction, annual reports and other genres. Chronicles the African American experience, from 1825 to 1998, including the Antebellum Era, the U.S. Civil War, reconstruction, segregation, and the Civil Rights movement. Some of the items in this database would not be considered primary.
Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985
Newspapers & Magazines
Includes every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London). The Times, often referred to as the "world's newspaper of record," covers international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Users may search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, obituaries, and advertising. Content, including both pictures and text, may be search or browsed by category, author, date, title and more.
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.
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.