HIST 174Q - Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice (Miller, Winter 2025): Recommended Primary Source Databases for this Class

Collections are arranged into 8 subject modules:

• Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle
• Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War
• Women's Studies
• Workers, Labor Unions, and Radical Politics
• American Indians and the American West
• American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate
• International Relations and Military Conflicts
• Revolutionary War and Early America
• Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration
• American Federation of Labor: Samuel Gompers Era Records,1877-1937
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 3 

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Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints: 

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 -- Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans, including publications unavailable earlier.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 -- Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, including thousands of publications unavailable earlier.

Newspapers: 

Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 -- More than a million pages of hundreds of historic newspapers listed in the authoritative bibliographies of Clarence Brigham and others.
Early American Newspapers, Series 2 complements Series 1 by offering more than 200 significant 18th and 19th-century newspapers. The bulk of Series 2 focuses on the period between 1820 and 1860, when the number of American newspapers rose dramatically. Based primarily on the newspaper collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Series 2 also includes titles from the holdings of the Library of Congress, the Wisconsin Historical Society and other organizations.

Government publications:

American State Papers, 1789-1838 -- U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838 but not published until the second and third quarters of the 19th century.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 -- Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes.