German 336/American Studies 344: The German-American Experience: Primary Sources

This collection of educational streaming videos includes content from a wide selection of producers and covers a wide variety of subject matter. This link also includes the “World Cinema Video Collection” which includes films from around the globe.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to a diverse collection of newspapers across the United States, including some from Kansas

This database provides access to two collections of newspapers: Kansas titles from African American newspapers, 1827-1998 and another collection of thirteen of the state’s papers published from 1851 to 1909. Among those included in the later collection are: Emporia Gazette, Leavenworth Bulletin, Topeka Weekly Capital, and Sedan Lance.

A collection of American Civil War letters, diaries, memoirs and biographies written between 1855 and 1875, including material that is previously unpublished.

American Periodicals Series Online includes digitized and images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from 1741 through 1940.

American West provides electronic access to the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Material in the collection ranges from 1722 to 1939, with the majority covering 1830 to 1839.

The Evans collection covers virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.

Shaw-Shoemaker contains a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published between 1801-1819

Early Encounters documents the relationships between people in North America from 1534 to 1850. It includes published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters that document the first impressions of North America by Europeans and of Europeans by native people.

Provides full-text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America from 1959 to 1989.

HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly, the illustrated 19th and early 20th century "national newspaper," an important resource for examining America on a cumulative week-to-week basis from 1857-1912.

Find statistics on a wide variety of aspects of America's past, including: population, immigration, employment, and economics.

IPoll contains half a million survey questions and answers asked in the United States dating back to the 1930s.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories includes approximately 100,000 pages of primary sources, such as letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, political cartoons, and oral histories.

As the most important newspaper of the period, the Pennsylvania Gazette provides accounts of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic.

Contains hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps from the collections of the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection of the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas

Brings together a variety of sources about women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.