Primary sources are documents or artifacts created at the time under study. Secondary sources might analyze or summarize historical events, but primary sources record history as it happens. There is no single, systematic way to locate primary sources, and you might have to get creative to find what you need. Depending on the period of time you are studying, a good primary source might be a newspaper or magazine article about a historical event, a diary or letter written by a historical figure, or a piece of media such as a painting or cartoon.
This resource digitally reproduces every issue of the New York Times (1851-2020) from cover-to-cover. It provides full page-image and full-text searching of the newspaper.
Current and historical news articles from local, regional, national, and international newspapers, including the Omaha World-Herald.
Complementary access to the New York Times dating back to 1851, with videos and special features.
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A database of more than 300,000 primary sources regarding various topics, such as U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, global affairs, colonial studies, and modern history.
Newspapers and magazines make periodic records of historical events, and usually make some effort to distinguish fact from opinion, making them invaluable primary sources. Most newspapers do not make their archives available on the open web, however, the following collections of newspapers and magazines are available online:
A searchable, full-text, online database of more than 200 years of The Times (London, England), with every page of every issue from 1785 through 2012. Covers local events in Britain and international events in India, China, South Africa, and the Americas.
There are many government and university projects that digitize and preserve books, manuscripts, and other archival documents. These repositories are all very large, containing millions of documents, and their contents are not always text-searchable.
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