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Use the Types drop-down menu to find primary source databases including archival collections, newspaper articles, images, videos and data.
See our Primary Source Timeline to browse databases organized by coverage dates and locations.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Access World News Research Collection includes full-text information and perspectives from local, regional, national, and international sources. Covers a range of disciplines and date coverage varies with individual newspaper. Includes The Carlisle Sentinel and The Patriot News. Coverage: varies, full text.
Links to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data, compiled by American University Library.
A coordinated effort among a group of data organizations whose goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk. Efforts include: data gathering, data curation and cleaning, data cataloging, and providing sustained access and distribution of data assets.
The Rand Daily Mail provides important reporting on South Africa from the Boer Wars to the Apartheid Era. Published daily in Johannesburg, it was the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid. Coverage: 1902 - 1985, full text.
The Sowetan was launched as a response to apartheid conditions in Soweto and other segregated communities. It chronicles life in South Africa during and after apartheid through editorials, political columns, and firsthand reporting. It became the country’s most widely circulated black paper at the time. Coverage: 1981 - current, full text.
