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- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowOffers full-text access to over 500 highly-regarded titles from 70 publishers. Covers every major subject in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences from the world's best publishers of reference.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
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- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowScholarly journal articles, magazine articles, books, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the contemporary period. Excludes North American history (which is covered in the companion database America: History & Life). Provides some full text. Covers materials published 1955-present.
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowScholarly journal articles, magazine articles, books, and dissertations on US and Canadian history and culture from prehistory to the contemporary period. Provides some full text. Covers materials published 1964-present.
- International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new windowThe International Medieval Bibliography is the leading bibliography of articles concerning the European Middle Ages (c. 450-1500), drawn from the regular coverage of over 4,500 periodicals and miscellany volumes.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowOnline resources in medieval and Renaissance studies, 400-1700. Collections include both primary and secondary sources.
Find Primary Sources - Library Databases
We subscribe to over 300 databases, many of which contain full-text, digitized primary sources. Check out our A-Z list of databases, filtered here to show you History databases that contain primary sources:
- A-Z List of DatabasesSubject: History
Type: Digital Archive
Find Primary Sources - American History
- American West This link opens in a new windowDigitized manuscripts, rare printed works, maps, and ephemera (including photographs, wanted posters, and news-sheets) illuminating the history of the western United States. Provides full-text access to eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century primary sources.
- America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new windowA collated version of three resources: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; and American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I. May be searched separately as well -- see individual titles in this list.
- History Vault: Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990 This link opens in a new windowIncludes papers from the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and Women's Action Alliance.
- History Vault: Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights This link opens in a new windowThe papers of key national women's rights leaders like Julia Ward Howe, Anna Howard Shaw, and Matilda Gage.
- History Vault: World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees This link opens in a new windowIncludes records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Records of the War Department Operations Division, U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Map Room Files, Records of the Office of War Information, Papers of the War Refugee Board, and several other collections documenting U.S. planning and participation in World War II.
- Native American Archives This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials on Native American history, including photos, census documents, and treaties.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowFull-text diaries and letters written by North American women, 1675-1950. Users can browse by year, historical event, location, or life experience in addition to searching. Also includes brief biographies of the authors.
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new windowDigitized primary sources on the Americas, 1500-1926. The collection includes materials produced in the Americas as well as materials about the Americas but produced around the world, offering a global perspective on this period. Sources include books, pamphlets, broadsides, and documents across genres.
Find Primary Sources - Websites
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Search over 15,798,968 items from libraries, archives, and museums across the country.
A-Z List of Databases
- A-Z List of St. Olaf Libraries DatabasesFilter by Subject to find databases relevant to your topic.
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