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Recommended Resources
Using the Library Catalog:
When searching in the Library Catalog do an advanced search and add the word “sources” to your search. Example: Other keywords to try: sources Example searches: NOTE: You can also use these techniques in WorldCat |
Using Library Databases
Other Primary Source Databases
Database Name | Focus | Content | Time Period |
America | Includes African-American Newspaper Collection, American and WW I, American County histories, the Civil War Newspapers, Godey's Lady's Book, The Liberator, the PA Gazette (America's first "paper of record"), and other American primary source documents | 1700s - early 1900s | |
International | Access the entire Adam Matthew Digital Portfolio of published content through 2018. Discover unique primary source content from leading archives and libraries around the world. Includes hundreds of thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of video and oral histories, and thousands of images. Total of 78 collections. View title list | 1600s - early 2000s | |
AP Images | International | Image database, includes complete archive of AP photos. Over 3 million images | 1840 - current |
Digital National Security Archives | America | Declassified US gov't documents relating to US foreign policy. Major collections include Afghanistan, Cuban Missile crisis, El Salvador, Irangate, Phillipines | 1945 - current |
Digital Sanborn Maps | America | Sanborn fire insurance maps are valuable historical tools for anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of Pennsylvania cities, towns, and neighborhoods. | 1867-1970 |
Films on Demand | America | Includes archival news footage and films from American history. Examples: Nixon's address on Vietnam, WPA films, old TV commercials, WW II footage. | 1919 - present |
Gale Virtual Reference Library | Mostly American | Speeches, letters, legislation, treaties, journal entries | 19th and 20th centuries |
HarpWeek | America | Popular 19th century news and social magazine | Late 19th and early 20th century |
HeinOnline | America | Legal research database. Also has a number of primary source collections including American Indians, Civil Rights, Social Justice, Pandemics, Executive Privilege, Gun Regulation, Impeachment Library, JFK Assassination, Legal Classics, Slavery, Supreme Court, Presidential Libraries. | Late 19th to current |
Historical Statistics of the United States | United States | Historical Statistics of the United States is a compendium of statistics about United States. | 1790s - 2000s |
Life Magazine Archive (EBSCO) | America | Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. | |
ProQuest Historical Newspapers | America |
Search the full text of the following historical newspapers: Pittsburgh Post Gazette |
1786 - 2016 |
Readex Digital Archives | America | Includes historical newspaper collection, Early American imprints, and broadsides/ephemera collections | 1600s - current |
Women and Social Movements | America | Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women.s activism in public life. |
1600 - 2000 |