19th Century Primary Sources

Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports on global missions and cultural encounters.

Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.

Archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States from the 19th century through the 20th century.

Contains an array of digitized materials on transgender history and culture. The collection functions as an extensive hub of resources, drawing content from archives across the U.S. and Canada.

Gain insight into the cultural, political, and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Digital facsimiles of manuscript letters and diaries written by American women from New England families.

Research, study, and discover endless teaching possibilities on understanding slavery from a multinational perspective.

Content focuses on slavery from Africa across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, from the origins of transoceanic slavery through the emancipation generation. In conjunction with The "Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation" a digital academic journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed datasets about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants drawn from documents produced from the fifteenth to the early twentieth-centuries.

This unique resource documents the history of African American life and religious organizations from 1829 and 1922.

Search Nineteenth Century newspapers across the following collections:
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, The Liberator, and Godey's Lady's Book.

Database of newspapers including African American Newspapers (1827-1998), Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876), Early American Newspapers (1690-1922), Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).

Includes many newspapers published bilingually in Spanish and English, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.

Historical collections that contain books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over centuries.

History Vault provides access to digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials.

Discover primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. Sourced from almost one hundred major world libraries.

A rich collection of primary sources related to U.S. history and culture; materials are drawn from the Library of Congress and other research libraries.

Contains materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the United States.