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Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience.
Some examples of a primary resource are:
Full-text and full-image articles beginning with the newspaper's first issue in 1851 through 2020.
You may review this listing of databases to find more recent issues.
Life Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1936 of the American variety magazine,
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1909 - 2010
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1922 - 2010
The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets of topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America