U.S. History: Primary Source Research

Access to newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, court files, memorandums, telegrams, minutes, and legal case records from the archive of the ACLU papers from 1912-1990.

Includes articles, manuscripts, images, and correspondence on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities globally; sex and sexuality; and related issues.  Library has access to four collections: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 part I-II, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century, and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

Thousands of archival primary source documents from the 20th century.

Includes articles, pamphlets, and ebooks covering U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. Content is in both English and Spanish.

Includes articles, pamphlets, and ebooks covering U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from the late 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers. Content is in both English and Spanish.

Includes significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.

Includes articles, audiovisual content, and other primary source materials covering major human rights violations and genocides worldwide from 1900 to 2010.

Covers Asian immigration and exclusion 1898-1941, Mexican immigration 1906-1930, INS records from Ellis Island, and investigations into prostitution and white slavery.

Digital archive of constitutional conventions and compilations, state and territorial codes, city charters, law dictionaries, and the published records of the American colonies from 1620 to 1979.

Includes personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts.

Includes working case files of the NAACP legal department documenting the NAACP's campaign to bring about desegregation throughout the United States.

Full opinions from U.S. Supreme Court-argued cases from 1975-2016 that includes per curiam decisions, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices, amici briefs, and landmark decisions.

Includes manuscripts, ephemera, documents, newspapers, periodicals, journals, history collections, women’s literature covering historical, social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Includes books, images, essays, book and website reviews, and other primary sources covering various women's and social movements between 1600-2000.