All Guides: HIST 350/WGSS 394 Race, Gender, and Medicine: Primary Sources Overview

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AM Explorer This link opens in a new window A single access point for Adam Matthew collections. Search unique primary source content covering the 15th - 21st centuries. Includes themes like; Borders and Migrations, Gender and Sexuality, Global History, and War and Conflict.

Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window Materials from American libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions.
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HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window A digital preservation repository that provides access to millions of digitized materials from libraries around the world.
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Europeana This site allows you to search across the digital archives and holdings of many significant European galleries, archives, libraries, and museums, including Judaica Europeana, Bodleian Libraries, EuroPhoto, the Natural Europe Project, and Museo Galileo.
World Digital Library Contains primary source materials (books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films) from around the world presented in a highly searchable manner.

ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window Search through collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Recent Newspapers

US Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Current and archived news from over 700 United States and international news sources, including the Star Tribune, New York Times, The Times of London, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Offers a large selection of newspapers, periodicals, and wire services from around the world.
Access World News: Research Collection This link opens in a new window International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips.

Historical Newspapers - International

Center for Research Libraries' Newspaper Collections CRL's collection of rare, historical newspapers from across the globe, available on microfilm or digitized. Inquire with librarians for more information.

Historical US Newspapers and Periodicals

Newspapers.com Library Edition This link opens in a new window Full-text of local newspapers from the United States, including Minnesota, dating from the 1700s to the 2000s. Limited additional coverage of local newspapers from other countries.

Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub The Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub is a searchable website from the Minnesota Historical Society that makes millions of pages of Minnesota newspapers available online. The Hub contains geographically and culturally diverse newspapers published between 1849 and today. Due to potential copyright restrictions most issues published less than 95 years ago can only be accessed from the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota History Center. --Website

New York Times Archive This link opens in a new window Searchable full text of the New York Times from the first issue in 1851 to 4 years ago. Includes full page and article images. Most recent years of the Times can be searched in US Newsstream or New York Times - Digital Microfilm.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window Early American Newspapers from 1690-1922 and African American Newspapers from 1827-1998.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections This link opens in a new window Digitized images from American magazines and journals held by the American Antiquarian Society, documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Includes over 6,500 titles featuring more than 10 million pages of content. Also titles in more than two dozen languages including French, German, Norwegian, Spanish.
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Independent Voices This link opens in a new window Independent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Chronicling America A free, searchable database of historic United States newspapers pages from 1836-1922.

Historical British Newspapers and Periodicals

The Times Historical Archive, 1785–2014 (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window Full-text and full-image archive to the Times of London for the years 1785-2014.
British Library Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society. Coverage: 1800-1900.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window Access to resources covering the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world.

Online Newspaper Collections

Wikipedia has a list of newspapers that are available online, sorted by country. Keep in mind that this list could be out of date and/or incomplete.

American Collections

Broad Historical Collections

Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window Selected newspapers, magazines, books from US colonial era through the 19th century, including eight African-American 19th century newspapers and county histories from New England and Mid-Atlantic states.
AM Explorer This link opens in a new window A single access point for Adam Matthew collections. Search unique primary source content covering the 15th - 21st centuries. Includes themes like; Borders and Migrations, Gender and Sexuality, Global History, and War and Conflict.
Center for Research Libraries This link opens in a new window Collections built by specialists and experts at the major U.S. and Canadian research universities working to preserve unique and uncommon documentation and evidence.

David Rumsey Map Collection Extensive digitized gallery of maps, globes, atlases, charts and other material in cartographic formats.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window Access to American books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints from 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819 This link opens in a new window Access to American books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints from 1801-1819.

Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) Digital LLMC Digital is a searchable, full text, open access collection of material from U.S. federal legislative, judicial and executive branches. LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally

Making of America (Cornell University) This link opens in a new window Primary materials covering American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. See also the Making of America (University of Michigan).
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Making of America (University of Michigan) This link opens in a new window Primary materials covering American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. See also the Making of America (Cornell University).
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National Archives (United States) The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the official keeper of the historical record of the United States of American government.

African American History and the History of the Slave Trade

Also refer to the Black History Collections page

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window Access to the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets and letters.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938 This link opens in a new window Contains first-person accounts of slavery and photographs of former slaves. Includes audio interviews and transcriptions.
Frederick Douglass Papers This link opens in a new window Presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The collection spans the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865.
From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 This link opens in a new window Presents pamphlets published from 1822 through 1909 by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. Materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches.

Slave Biographies An open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves.

Slavery and Anti-slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window Digital archive devoted to study and understanding of the history of slavery. Access to primary source documents shedding light on the abolitionist movement and the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonization.

Transatlantic Slave Trade Database The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database comprises more than 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866.

European Collections

AM Explorer This link opens in a new window A single access point for Adam Matthew collections. Search unique primary source content covering the 15th - 21st centuries. Includes themes like; Borders and Migrations, Gender and Sexuality, Global History, and War and Conflict.
British Library Images Online This link opens in a new window Holds the King's Library, manuscripts, rare books, musical texts, maps, illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs spanning almost 3000 years.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window Digital images of books published between 1701 and 1800 in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. Includes significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century and works from the Americas.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842–2003 (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window Full-text searchable digital edition of the Illustrated London News.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window Focuses on primary source collections of the nineteenth century including monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration This link opens in a new window Presents documents related to the work of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR), which was established after the Evian Conference of July 1938 to develop resettlement opportunities for refugees fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe.
Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944 This link opens in a new window An official statistical source providing rare, detailed data on the German economic situation during the Third Reich up to and throughout World War II.
Testaments to the Holocaust This link opens in a new window Primary source collection offering searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda materials, small publications and rare serials reflecting Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to after the war.
Listener Historical Archive This link opens in a new window The Listener was a weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programmes in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts.
Post War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 This link opens in a new window Access to primary sources on the challenges facing European peoples in the aftermath of World War II, including the politics, administration, and daily struggles of the resulting refugee crisis.

David Rumsey Map Collection
Extensive digitized gallery of maps, globes, atlases, charts and other material in cartographic formats.
The National Archives (UK) Cabinet Papers
OSA Archive The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU) is a complex archival institution. OSA is both a repository of important collections, primarily related to the history of the Cold War and grave international human rights violations, and a laboratory of archival experiments on new ways of assessing, contextualizing, presenting, and making use of archival documents.

Specialized Collections - Women and Gender Studies

Digital Transgender Archive DTA is an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world relevant to the study of transgender history.

Women and Social Movements This link opens in a new window A resource for scholars of U.S. Women's history. The collection currently includes 123 document projects and archives with 5,100 documents and more than 170,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,700 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

Women: Transnational Networks Women: Transnational Networks focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early-twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective. The collection contains deep information on European and North American movements, but also expands its scope to include collections from other regions.

Other Specialized Collections

Digital Library of the Caribbean This link opens in a new window dLOC is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean region that provides access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. Types of materials include; newspapers, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral histories, travel accounts, literature, poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.
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Images

Artstor This link opens in a new window Note: All Artstor content is migrating to JSTOR, and the Artstor platform will be retired on August 1, 2024. You can check out the new search interface now at Artstor on JSTOR. More information can be found at Welcome to JSTOR from Artstor. Library of high quality digital images of artistic photographs and artwork from museums and collections worldwide.

Atlases and Maps

The Decolonial Atlas
"The Decolonial Atlas is a growing collection of maps which, in some way, help us to challenge our relationships with the land, people, and state. It’s based on the premise that cartography is not as objective as we’re made to believe. The orientation of a map, its projection, the presence of political borders, which features are included or excluded, and the language used to label a map are all subject to the map-maker’s bias – whether deliberate or not. Because decolonization is a process of unlearning and rediscovering, we’re especially committed to indigenous language revitalization through toponymy – the use of place names." -- Decolonial Atlas: About
Maps and Atlases in Macalester's Collections
A custom search for su: History Maps in Worldcat, limited to Macalester College holdings

Audio/Video

Kanopy This link opens in a new window Video streaming service offering films from independent and specialty producers, with a focus on documentary films. Videos and clips can be embedded into Moodle.
American History in Video This link opens in a new window Collection of newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage and documentaries.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Streaming video platform offering thousands of multidisciplinary videos.
Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new window Songs covering all eras of American history from the Revolutionary War to twentieth-century anti-war protests; extensive liner notes included