Subject specific digital collections
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Gale Primary Sources(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across newspapers and digitized collections of primary sources from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, including ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, The Times of London, The Illustrated London News, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist, and many more. Covers 1604 - present (varying by source). Contains "The North Star" (Frederick Douglass' newspaper) -
NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineMillions of pages of full-text primary sources. You may want to look in particular at the sub-collections "Women: Transnational Networks", "Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925", or "Photography: The World through the Lens".
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Minnesota Historical Society: Digital CollectionsSearch MHS's digitized oral history interviews, images of objects, photographs, government documents, and other documents.
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Social Welfare History Archives (UMN)The Social Welfare History Archives collects the records of private-sector social service and social reform organizations and the personal papers of individual leaders in the field.
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Blog post: Portraits of Nineteenth Century African American Women Activists Newly Available Online [Library of Congress]March 29, 2017. Aggregated information on newly digitized images.
Collections about race
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Slavery, Abolition, and Social JusticePrimary source documents dating from 1490 to the near present from across the Atlantic world relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition, and social justice.
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ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles from 10 African-American newspapers spanning the 20th century from their first issue until about 2010. Earliest papers go back to 1893. -
Readex AllSearch(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Includes historical newspapers, government documents, books, ephemera, and the like.
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The Colored American Magazine byPublication Date: 1900-1909
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Oxford African American Studies CenterBrowse primary sources; narrow to Era = Age of Segregation and the Progressive Era. Use other facets on the left to help narrow your scope.
Collections about gender
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Women's Studies ArchiveNineteenth and twentieth-century histories of social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives in documents such as diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals.
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American Periodicals(Searches through citations and the full text)
A digitized collection of American magazines and journals, 1740-1920. -
Women's Magazine Archive(Searches through citations and the full text)
A fully digitized archive of the backfiles of several major North American women's magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, WIN News, and Woman's Day. Coverage varies by publication and ranges from 1886 through 2005. -
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000(Searches through citations and the full text)
An archive of digitized primary documents and teaching tools on Women and Social Movements in the U.S. Covers 1600 - 2000. -
Harper's Weekly 1857-1912(Searches through citations and the full text)
A complete copy of every issue of Harpers Weekly from 1857 to 1912, including advertisements and cartoons. More issues available in Carleton Special Collections.
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Women Working, 1800-1930Part of the Open Collections initiative, this digital library contains thousands of pages of print and image sources from the collections and museums of Harvard University.
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Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911Digitized by the Library of Congress: "Between 1897 and 1911 Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, filled seven large scrapbooks with ephemera and memorabilia related to their work with women's suffrage."
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Archives of Sexuality and GenderPrimary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender from the 16th through the 20th centuries.
Newspapers & Magazines
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles for six major United States newspapers plus Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1851. -
Readex AllSearchIncludes multiple newspaper collections: African American Periodicals, America's Historical Newspapers, African American Newspapers, Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, and Hispanic Newspapers.
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Newspapers.comNewspapers dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s. Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional, and state titles as well as small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across fully digitized newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and illustrations.
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Farm, Field, and Fireside: Agricultural Newspaper CollectionU.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries available for viewing, printing, and downloading.
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Carletonian Online(Searches through citation information)
Full text access to the Carletonian, going back to the very beginning! Covers 1887 - May 2015. For recent issues, visit The Carletonian Online.
Magazines
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American Periodicals(Searches through citations and the full text)
A digitized collection of American magazines and journals, 1740-1920. -
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive(Searches through citations and the full text)
An archival collection of magazines related to the history of the film and entertainment industries, 1880 - 2000. -
National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994(Searches through citations and the full text)
A complete searchable copy of every issue of National Geographic Magazine from 1888 through 1994. -
Religious Magazine Archive (1845-2015)18 historical magazines devoted to religious topics: Advent, America, BR, Catholic World, Islamic Horizons, Islamica, National Catholic Reporter, Plain Truth, The Pope Speaks, Presbyterian Outlook, Protestant Truth, Quest, Sikh Courier International, Sikh Messenger, Sojourners Magazine, Spiritual Life, U.S. Catholic, and UU World.
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Vogue Magazine ArchiveContains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day.
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Women's Magazine Archive(Searches through citations and the full text)
A fully digitized archive of the backfiles of several major North American women's magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, WIN News, and Woman's Day. Coverage varies by publication and ranges from 1886 through 2005.
Center for Research Libries
Carleton College has access to the many collections of the Center for Research Libraries. Below are a few collection highlights:
- Records of the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor, 1918-1965
- The Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969
- Books of the Fairs
- Papers of Margaret Sanger
Request materials early to ensure that you get them in time to be useful for you.
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CRL: Center For Research Libraries(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
This collection includes microfilm for foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations. You may borrow microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan.
Large Primary Source Collections
Most -- but not all! -- content in these databases is primary sources.
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DPLA: Digital Public Library of America(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and transcripts)
Aggregates millions of digital items from major libraries and collections across the country, including Carleton College. -
HathiTrust Digital Library(Searches through citations and the full text)
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and digitally accessible. A major source of digitized books and other documents. Some of the collection if available for free to all, and additional content is available to Carleton faculty, staff, and students.
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Internet archiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access to current and historical web content.
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Europeana(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
A large collections with artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. -
Library of Congress Digital Collections(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Contains texts, sound recordings, still and moving images, maps, and sheet music from the Library of Congress that document American History.
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Carleton College Archives Database(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Search all known records of archival photographs, documents, and artifacts at Carleton College, many of which are available in digitized form. -
Carleton College Oral Histories(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Includes recorded interviews with Carleton faculty, alumni, staff and others covering their individual experiences at Carleton. 1971-2014
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American Archive of Public BroadcastingHistoric programs of publicly funded radio and television across America. Includes video of Watergate hearings, raw interview footage form Ken Burns documentaries, and many other political speeches and interviews.
