Selected Primary Sources
- Gale Primary SourcesThese collections include newspaper clippings, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, etc. One collection even includes the FBI files of various activists.
Sample collections:
- Political Extremism and Radicalism
- Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories
- Women's Studies Archive
and more.
- Proquest Historical NewspapersYou can find newspaper accounts of events your person was involved in and sometimes interviews or profiles.
To find interviews or profiles, try this search:
(person's name) NEAR/15 (interview OR profile).This looks for the person's name within 15 words of the terms "interview" or "profile."
- The Times digital archive, 1785-2006Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2006.
- Black Studies CenterSecondary and primary sources. Focus is African Americans. Includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, the HistoryMakers, and the Chicago Defender.