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OLD HIS 4990 Senior Seminar in History
Try It! Illinois - Limited Time Free Primary Sources
OLD HIS 4990 Senior Seminar in History
This guide will assist you with HIS 4990 Research Paper. Updated Fall 2020
Getting Started
Primary vs. Secondary Sources
Citing Your Sources
Interviewing Tips
Primary Sources Available in Phillips Library
University Archives and Collections
Digital Archives and Collections
Historical Newspaper Collections (Digital and Print)
Regional Archives and Collections
Try It! Illinois - Limited Time Free Primary Sources
Free (Limited Time Only!) Databases with Primary Sources
Free (Limited Time Only!) Databases with Primary Sources
Databases:
The databases listed below provide primary content, search Try It! by the database name provided.
Archival Collections
Archives Unbound
vast resource of digital archival content in a variety of subjects.
History Research Center
Latino American Experience
Topical/Regional Archival Collections (may contain non-archival sources also)
African-American History Online
American Indian History Online
American Mosaic: The African American Experience
American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience
American West (Sage Publications/Adam Matthew)
Everett D.Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library
Ancestry Library Edition
Census data, vital records (birth, death, marriage), family histories, limited newspaper content.
Ancient & Medieval History Online
Annotated primary sources (translated from original language)
ATLA Historical Monographs Collection
Religious thought and practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Eighteenth Century Collection Online
contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800
Electronic Enlightenment Online
edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century
Jewish Life in America 1654-1954
Newspaper Collections
19th Century British Library Newspapers
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Historical Chicago Defender (1909-1975)
Chicago Defender was the leading African American daily newspaper.
Historical Chicago Tribune 1849 - 1989
Phillips Library only subscribes to content back to 1985.
Historical New York Times 1851 - 2010
Newspaper Archive
Regional historical newspapers.
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