Primary Sources
For a complete list of primary source databases, see our general Primary Sources research guide.
Primary Sources in Books
- Ignacio: Library CatalogThe library catalog lets you search across the holdings of Gleeson Library and Zief Law Library, including books, videos, and other materials.
Subject terms to locate primary sources:
- Archives
- Biography
- Autobiography
- Correspondence
- Court records
- Description and travel
- Diaries
- Imprints
- Interviews
- Manuscripts
- Maps
- Oratory
- Personal narratives
- Pictorial works
- Public opinion
- Sources
- Speeches
- Transcripts
Letters and Diaries
- North American Women's Letters and DiariesNorth American Women's Letters and Diaries is the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, brings the personal experiences of some 1,325 women to researchers, students, and general readers.
Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times 1851-recentThe historic New York Times provides researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. It provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
Government Documents
- ProQuest CongressionalProQuest Congressional is especially useful for performing legislative histories and locating Congressional documents. It is also very useful for tracking legislation and major public policy issues, locating recent Congressional documents and related material in full text, and learning more about Congress and the legislative process.
Images
- Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and TextThe online collection is growing to include 5,000 individual volumes, with 650,000 pages and more than a million images. Each book tells a small piece of American history. But when researched together with Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing, the collection becomes a massive and powerful primary-source research tool, a tapestry of the places and people that have made America.