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THIST 410 Early American Politics and Law: The Civil War Era, 1819-1896: Primary Sources: News & Magazines
Useful links and starting points for locating primary and secondary resources.
What is a primary source?
Primary sources include documents or artifacts created by a witness to or participant in an event. They can be firsthand testimony or evidence created during the time period that you are studying.
Primary sources may include diaries, letters, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music. The collection and analysis of primary sources is central to historical research.
Magazines
- American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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American magazines of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, - British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Includes full-images and searchable full-text for nearly 500 British magazines.
Newspapers Online
- African American Newspapers of the 19th century This link opens in a new window
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Full-text (not full-image) African American newspapers. Many of the papers in this collection pre-date the Civil War, but there are several that cover at least some of the years of your assignment.
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1758-1900Full-image newspapers available online.
- Chronicling AmericaNewspaper images from the Library of Congress, 1836-1922.
- Historic Washington NewspapersPapers from Washington Territory -- a few titles cover the time frame for this assignment.
- New York Times, 1851-2011Full-image newspapers available online.
- Pennsylvania Civil War NewspapersYears of coverage may vary
- The Richmond Daily Dispatch (Virginia), 1860-1865Available online.
- The Times (London), 1785-1985Full-image newspapers available online.
- Guardian, 1821-2003 & The Observer, 1791-2003British newspapers: The Guardian and its Sunday partner The Observer