Primary Sources for United States History

Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.

Focuses on U.S. Hispanic history, literature, and culture from colonial times until 1960. This resource is indexed and searchable in Spanish and English.

Manuscripts, books, and newspapers on Hispanic-American civil rights, religion, and women’s rights from the 18th - 20th centuries.

This collection focuses on American Indians in the first half of the 20th century, a period that has not been studied in as much detail as the calamitous 19th century. The two major collections on the 20th century in this module are Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. In addition to these 20th century records, American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 features a number of excellent collections on American Indians in the 19th century, with a focus on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. federal government, and Indian tribes.

The Constitution of the U.S. authorizes the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties. Of all the treaties signed, most involved Native American lands, Indian removal or resettlement, or clarification of boundaries between white settlements and Indian lands. The resource covers the history of Indian claims from 1789-present.

Brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files for the first time.

Presents the investigations made during the massive immigration wave at the turn of the 20th century. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930; and European immigration. There are also extensive files on the INS’s regulation of prostitution and white slavery and on suppression of radical aliens.

This collection brings together 105,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

This collection includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.

Comprised of records of three important women’s rights organizations: the National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. Originally a committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the National Woman’s Party (NWP) was founded in 1913 when Alice Paul and her colleagues broke away from NAWSA in dissent over strategy and tactics. The Women’s Action Alliance, established in 1971 as a grass-roots organization, concerned it self with issues such as employment and employment discrimination, childcare, health care, and education. The League of Women Voters collection documents almost every facet of women’s involvement in U.S. politics from 1920 to 1974.

A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

An archive of leading women’s interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st. Collection contains 18 magazines including: Better Homes & Gardens, Chatelaine, Company, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Prima, Redbook, Seventeen, She, Town and Country, Woman's Day, and Women's International Network News.