Primary Sources (Gale)

Digital historical documents including books, manuscripts, letters, newspapers, photographs, maps and more ranging across topics of national and global relevance.

Explore primary sources across these collections:

• Associated Press Collections Online
  
  Archive of AP coverage of events, people and trends from the mid-19th through 20th centuries
• Indigenous Peoples of North America
  
  Cultural, political and social history of American and Canadian Indigenous Peoples from the 17th-20th centuries
• The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991
  
  Archive of the weekly newspaper published by the BBC covering news, arts and more
• The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers
  
  Records from 1912-1990 on free speech, citizenship, race, discrimination and more, plus mid-20th century content from the Southern Regional Office
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources
  
  Historical legal codes, statutes, regulations and commentaries on codes from various European countries
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926
  
  Foreign and international legal literature including treatises and monographs
• Political Extremism and Radicalism
  
  Campaign materials, periodicals and propaganda from U.S. and global fringe political movements during the 19th through early 21st century
• Religions of America
  
  Materials documenting religious movements that originated in the U.S. and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
  
  Content and research guides related to the history of slavery including legal issues, Atlantic slave trade, race and the American Civil War, modes of resistance and emancipation
• Women's Studies Archive
  
  Documents presenting the roles, experiences and achievements of women in 19th and 20th century society
• Women: Transnational Networks (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)
  
  North American, European and other regional suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health and other gender and class issues