We have over 500 primary source databases, giving us one of the best digital collections of history database in the country (UVA & Duke each have about ~400). Use the primary source database guide to find the best databases for your project.
Our main catalog indexes about 70 percent of all the materials in all our databases, including primary sources.
You can limit the publication date function to find primary sources on your topic.
Example: a search for war AND "noise" limited to the war limited to anything 1914-1918