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) This link opens in a new window
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) This link opens in a new window
Fully searchable digital collection of thousands of historical American newspapers, covering the period 1690-1876.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters This link opens in a new window
- 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 of North America This link opens in a new window
- 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 This link opens in a new window
Find letters and diaries of 1325 American women from colonial times, from 1500-1950

Primary sources in books

Many primary sources have been gathered and published in books.

To find these, search in OMNI for your topic and one or more of the following search terms:

personal narratives
sources
diaries
letters
correspondence
interviews

See the results of this search and try it with your own search terms.