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.
3. Bloomington Pantagraph (online) 1848 - 1985 through Newspapers.com Illinois Collection.
5. HarpWeek.
Full text of Harper's Weekly for the years 1857-1912.
6. Nineteenth 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
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)