Primary sources (historical)
| American Memory Collections (LOC) |
Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program. Access: All |
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| Black Thought and Culture |
Contains the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, and includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other ephemeral material. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Burney Newspaper Collection--17th and 18th Centuries |
A comprehensive collection of early English newspapers from London, the British Isles, and colonies, including many American titles. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Census of Population and Housing 2010 |
Gateway to the 2010 Census from the U. S. Census Bureau. Access: All |
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| Crime, Punishment and Popular Culture,1790-1920 |
Archive containing manuscripts, books, broadsheets and periodicals from 1790 - 1920. Collection covers Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes. Includes raw data about crime, its solutions, and the popular response. Access: John Jay |
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| Criminal Trial Transcripts Collection, Lloyd Sealy Library |
An index to the Lloyd Sealy Library's Trial Transcripts of the County of New York 1883-1927. Several transcripts have been digitized and are available online. Access: All |
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| Early English Books Online |
EEBO contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Access: John Jay |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online |
A digital archive of 150,000 books published in the eighteenth century, covering a broad spectrum of topics like law, history, science, and art. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Gale Primary Sources |
Cross-search dozens of historical archives covering hundreds of years of history through this single platform. Resources include monographs, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs. Individual databases collections include :
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| Hein Online |
Several historical American and international law collections incuding law reviews and journals from their first volume of publication, the Federal Register, Presidential Documents, Attorney Generals Opinions, World Constitutions, legal classics, and the newest collection, Slavery in America and the World; History, Culture and Law. Access: John Jay |
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| History of Capital Punishment Database |
Collection of materials from the National Death Penalty Archives on the nature, history, operation, effects, psychology, desirability, and compatibility with religious and moral precepts, of the death penalty. Includes periodicals, trials, hearings, bibliographies and other related works. Access: John Jay |
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| Issues & Controversies in American History |
Background articles, timelines, photographs and maps relating to events in American history. Includes select primary documents and points of view on major issues and controversies. Access: John Jay |
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| Making of the Modern World |
Provides the full text of 61,000 works of literature in business, politics, and economics published from 1450 to 1850. Includes the full Goldsmiths Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| New York Times Historical File |
Full text of articles and page images of The New York Times from 1851 to 2013. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Nineteenth Century Collections Online |
An eclectic collection of digital collections of primary source materials mostly from British and American libraries. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Slavery and Anti-Slavery |
Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law |
Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Much of the non-legal material in this collection is based on the holdings of the Buffalo Public Library. Its rare book collection contains hundreds of nineteenth century pamphlets and books on slavery. Access: John Jay |
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| Social Explorer |
Displays interactive maps of U.S. Census data going back to 1790. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Umbra Search |
A searchable collection of over 500,000 primary source documents relating to African American history and culture digitized by over 1,000 libraries libraries and archives across the country. Access: All |
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| Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 |
Brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, audio recordings, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. Access: CUNY |
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| World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean Archive |
Brings together primary source documents relating to Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news-feeds; reference materials; maps; statistics; audio and video. Covers politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science and technology. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
