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2022 Fall Elective: American Cultural History: Primary Source Databases

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Spence School Library Databases:

New York Public Library Primary Source Databases

New York Public Library Databases:

  • Artemis Primary Sources A full-text database that cross-searches Gale's primary source collections, including Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth-Century Collections Online (NCCO), and Sabin Americana. 
  • Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity Contains 18 digitized archival collections exploring LGBTQ history and culture since 1940.
  • Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress This archive, from the NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, documents the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) which was established in 1946 to, among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against…labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities." Dates of inclusion range from 1946-1955.
  • Harper's Bazaar Archive The entire run of Harper's Bazaar, in full text and full color, from 1867-present.  *Keep in the mind that because this title is newly released, only select content, mostly from 1970-2008, has been loaded thus far. 
  • Independent Voices Independent Voices is a growing digital collection of the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative and small press archives of participating libraries.
  • Indigenous Peoples: North America Over 50 archival collections documenting the Native American experience.
  • Liberty Magazine  The Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950 offers researchers and students of twentieth century studies digital access to one of the most popular American illustrated weekly magazines of the 1920s-1950s.  
  • New Yorker Digital Archive The entire run of the New Yorker, in full text and full color, from 1925-present.
  • ProQuest Historical African American Newspapers: African American historical newspapers throughout the United States. 
  • Women's Magazine Archive The Women's Magazine Archive provides digital access to decades of women's-interest magazines in high-resolution color and in full-text from cover to cover. This collection covers magazines from the 19th and 20th centuries.