This guide showcases the myriad databases and resources Goucher College offers for archival and primary source research with some tips and trips to support students, faculty, and staff through the process.
Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Gale Primary Sources takes users beyond a simple search and retrieve workflow, allowing them to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets.
Early American newspapers and other primary sources in history, including Godey's Lady's Book, the Pennsylvania Gazette, the Civil War collection, the Lily, Women's Suffrage, and more.
This archive of more than 3,600 books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera contains varied perspectives on a;; aspects of slavery such as economics and trade, government and politics, health and labor, law and crime, literature and philosophy, religion and theology, science and technology, slavery and race relations, and society, manners, and customs.
Digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Content from over 1,500 print and manuscript directories, member lists, travel guides and other sources, chronicling the people and organizations of New York City from the late 18th through the early 20th century.
Full-text, current issues and archives of renowned news and opinion magazines including the New Yorker, the Progressive, Harper's, Washington Monthly, Dissent, and more.
Unique collections of documentary materials on U.S. foreign policy issues collected and indexed by journalists and scholars at George Washington University to check rising government secrecy.
A freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). The primary holdings of the portal are 20th century serial publications by CTAs.
Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.
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.
A collection of essential 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.
A significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. Dating back to the sixteenth century, the material covers changes in sexual norms, health and hygiene, sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and much more.
Provides descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide, helping for researchers find primary source materials held by these institutions.
Asian Life in America is the most comprehensive digital collection of primary source
documents from and about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage—
including Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, Vietnamese and
many others.
