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HIS 300: The Underground Railroad (Gifford)

Primary Sources

Newspapers

Milner Library subscribes to various newspapers both online and on microfilm. 

   The microfilm for most newspapers is located on Floor 2 in the northeast corner or in Basement Storage. 

 Microfilm of newspapers may also be borrowed from other libraries through InterLibrary Loan.  

1.    Historical New York Times (Online) 1851-2013.

 2.  Historical Chicago Tribune (online).  1849-1993.
 

3.     Bloomington Pantagraph (online) 1848 - 1985 through Newspapers.com Illinois Collection.

5.     HarpWeek.
        Full text of Harper's Weekly for the years 1857-1912.

6Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers.
             Full text online database of 19th century papers from many states in the U.S.

7.  Chronicling America:  Historic American Newspapers.
             Full text for some 700+ newspapers from 1836-1922.

8.   Civil War Newspapers  -  microfilm collection  -  E 461 .C54  Storage Basement.
             Reel Guide:  Reference Microform Indexes  E 461 .C55 Guide  Floor 2

 
Additional Primary Sources

American Periodical Series Online, 1741-1900+.
Full text of American popular and professional periodicals including over 1,000 titles in all, covering a wide range of subjects.

 Black Thought and Culture
Full text database of books, speeches, essays, articles, and interviews of major African American  leaders
from colonial times to the present. 

 Women and Social Movements in the U. S.  1600-2000.
 Full text database of primary and secondary sources on the role of women in a range of  social movements
throughout American history.

American Memory Project.
Library of Congress site containing primary documents from various eras of  U.S. history
including Civil War photos, diaries, maps. etc.

 

1.  The Black Abolitionist Papers.  5 vols.  (E 449 .B624 1985  Floor 3)

2.  The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison  6 vols.  (E 449 .G245  Floor 3)

3.  The Frederick Douglass Papers.  Series 1:  Speeches, debates and interviews.  5 vols. 
        (E 449 .D733  Floor 3)

4.  The Liberator  v. 1-35, 1831-1865. 
          In  American Periodical Series Online.

5.  American Anti-Slavery Society.  Annual Reports.  (E 449 .A517  Floor 3)

6.  Documentary History of Slavery in North America.  (E 441 .D64  -  Floor 3)

7.  The American Slave:  a composite autobiography.  (E 444 .A45  Floor 3)

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