Primary Sources - History 2P15 - Research Assignment - Research Guides at Brock University

Primary Source Collections

These collections offer a wide range of digitized published and archival primary sources.

America's Historical Imprints (Early American Imprints)
Find historical books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America mainly between 1639 and 1800.
America's Historical Newspapers (Early American Newspapers)
Fully searchable digital collection of thousands of historical American newspapers, covering the period 1690-1876.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
Comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
- This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920
- Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
- Permitted Uses
Indigenous Peoples: North America
- A collection of primary sources that explores the impact of invasion and colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge.
- Coverage: 1665-1988
- Permitted Uses
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Find letters and diaries of 1325 American women from colonial times, from 1500-1950

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