Library: Primary Sources: General

Selected General Sources: History

Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window
Primary source material in American history.
Archival Resources of Wisconsin This link opens in a new window
Finding aids describing collections held at 24 repositories throughout Wisconsin. These finding aids describe unpublished primary resources. Archival holdings can include a variety of materials such as correspondence, diaries, maps, government records, and media.
Artemis Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Search across all of their Gale primary source collections.
DPLA: Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
All-digital library that aggregates metadata — or information describing an item — and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment This link opens in a new window
Books and primary sources documenting relationships between people in North America from 1534-1850.
Gilded Age This link opens in a new window
Includes primary documents and scholarly commentary covering the period between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt

HathiTrust Digital Library
A digital preservation repository that provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.

Black Drama This link opens in a new window
Plays by Black writers from the mid-1800s to the present. Includes criticism images.
Celebration of Women Writers (Univ of PA) This link opens in a new window
Primary sources and related links for women writers from ancient times to the present.
Dictionary of Old English—Web Corpus This link opens in a new window
Contains at least one copy of every surviving Old English text.
Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Books and primary sources from 1475–1700 in English.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Books and primary sources from the 1700s in English.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new window
Primary-sources of the 1800s mainly from Western perspectives.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
E-books to download or read online. Focuses on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This link opens in a new window
Works of rare lyric poetry from 50+ Scottish women poets.