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HIST 121: America History to 1877 (Spring 2023)

Primary Source Databases

For this Assignment you will be using primary sources from the very excellent SCRC collection, and as such won't need to use our extensive collections of digitized primary sources. 

All the same, I want to let you know they exist for your future classes and assignments.  We have about 150 databases of primary sources materials, not including another ~150 digitized newspaper databases with historic content.

Examples of Pre-1877 US History Databases

Wide range of material (correspondence, journals, notes, etc)

PRINTED MATTER (BOOKS, BROADSIDES, ETC)

Magazines and Popular Periodicals

Government Records

HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS

Plantation Records

Letters, Diaries, Papers