Historical Secondary Sources
- America: history and life This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts scholarly historical literature covering the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
- Historical abstracts This link opens in a new windowInclude citations to historical articles and books covering everything but the United States and Canada from 1450 to the present.
Middle Eastern Secondary Sources
- Index to Jewish periodicals This link opens in a new windowProvides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.
- Middle Eastern & Central Asian studies This link opens in a new windowBibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
Political Science Databases
- Political science complete This link opens in a new windowCaptures the breadth of the subject with both a national and international perspective, drawing from scholarly, professional and peer-reviewed sources, and offering considerable full-text content.
- Worldwide political science abstracts This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and indexes journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy, including the merged backfile of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI. Some full-text linking. Coverage 1975 - .
Helpful Guides
Digital Primary Sources
- Alternative press Index This link opens in a new windowIndexes the last twenty years of North America's alternative press, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications.
- Alternative press index archive This link opens in a new windowIndexes the alternative press in North America, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications from 1969-1990, covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
- Associated Press This link opens in a new windowContains the photograph archives of the Associated Press. New content is added constantly and spans over 180 years.
- Arab-Israeli relations, 1917-1970 This link opens in a new windowThis database contains archival material from the National Archives, UK and were authored by the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender (Parts I and IV) This link opens in a new windowContains primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. There is a significant amount of materials related to the AIDS Crisis.
- Associated Press collections online This link opens in a new windowSearch the internal documents of the Associated Press. Four collections included are: News Features & Internal Communications, U.S. City Bureaus Collection, Washington, D.C. Bureaus Collection; European Bureaus Collection.
- Historical statistics of the United States This link opens in a new windowHistorical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition contains over 37,000 different time-series statistics providing a quantitative view into American history.
- Independent Voices This link opens in a new windowThis collection chronicles the decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of independent alternative presses.
- International Historical Statistics This link opens in a new windowHistorical statistics from around the world.
- Roper iPoll This link opens in a new windowIPoll contains half a million survey questions and answers asked in the United States since the 1930s by more than 150 survey organizations.
- Iraq, 1914-1974 This link opens in a new windowThis is a digital collection from the British government's Foreign Office. The materials covers from the Anglo-Indian land in 1914 through the rise of Saddam Hussein.
- Reader's guide retrospective This link opens in a new windowIndexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States during the Twentieth Century.
US Government Documents
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports This link opens in a new windowTranscripts of foreign broadcasts and news that have been translated into English by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a U.S. government agency. The dates of coverage are 1941 to 1996.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowThis rather complicated to use database contains government information from all three branches of U.S. government. Ask if you need help.
- U.S. Congressional serial set (Readex) This link opens in a new windowAccess all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
- CIA Electronic Reading Room SearchDeclassified documents provided by the CIA.
- The National Security ArchiveDeclassified documents from the US government.
Free Online Primary Sources
- Bin Ladin's BookshelfDocuments recovered during the raid on the compound used to hide Usama bin Ladin. The release contains two sections: a list of non-classified, English-language material found in and around the compound; and a selection of now-declassified documents.
- Israel's Foreign Policy - Historical DocumentsPublished by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these are documents (official statements, press conferences, interview, letters, etc.) relating to Israel's foreign relations from 1947-2004.
- Middle East, 1916-2001: a documentary recordRepresenting nations from around the globe, this site contains documents, transcripts of speeches, and UN resolutions. Arranged by year.
Subject Guide
Sara Morris
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Select Newspapers
- Irish times (1859-2015) This link opens in a new windowThe historical Irish Times provides comprehensive news reporting as well as sports, business, arts, lifestyle coverage, and more.
- New York Times with index This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full page and article images with searchable full-text from 1851 to 4 years ago.
- Times digital archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new windowFull-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2006.
- Washington post This link opens in a new windowIncludes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1877 up to 16 years ago.
Relevant Print Indexes
These indexes are excellent tools to find primary sources from 20th century periodicals. The links provided are to just one of the many entries for the title. If the link doesn't include the years you need use the "Continues" and "Continued by" to find the location of the volume you need.
- British Humanities IndexKU has most dates from 1917 to 2006.
- Canadian Periodical IndexThis index, which has many name variations, covers the literature from Canada. More recent years also index films.
- Index to Periodical Articles by and About BlacksAs the title suggest this index covers literature related to African Americans. KU has volumes from 1950 to 1998.
- International Index to PeriodicalsThis index, which has three different titles, indexes materials from 1913 to 1960. As the title implies the periodicals, many of which are in English, are from around the world.
- Readers’ Guide to Periodical LiteratureThis American Index covers popular periodical literature. 1900 to 1994 is available in Watson.
- Subject Index to PeriodicalsPublished in London, this index mostly includes British titles. KUs holdings range from 1915 to 2006.