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History 302: Practicing History (Smart 2022)

Primary Sources

AM Explorer
AM Explorer contains hundreds of thousands of primary source documents from 88 unique collections. Themes include area studies, cultural studies, empire and globalism, ethnic studies, gender and sexuality, history, politics, literature, theatre, war and conflict. Content ranges from medieval times to the present.

AP Archive
Historical news footage from the Associated Press.

Eight Centuries
Eight Centuries is a comprehensive database aggregating vast scholarly indexes to journals, newspapers, books, documents, artwork, and images. This growing database contains 27,408,426 discrete links to primary source historical documents.

Freedom on the Move
A searchable database of "runaway ads" posted by jailers and enslavers in attempts to locate those who escaped slavery.

Gale Primary Sources
Discover primary sources from 7 digital archive collections including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, the Times Digital Archive and 19th Century British Newspapers. Special tools for analysis include term frequency and term cluster.

Library of Congress Primary Sources
The LoC's digital collections include photographs, prints, A/V, newspapers, and more.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Includes approximately 150,000 pages of women's letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. The material is drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings