LibGuides: HIST 277 (Mehler): Finding Primary Sources

HIST 277 - Mehler

Finding Primary Sources

The textbook, Major Problems in American Business History, contains many primary sources. Also, use FLITE's subscription databases to find primary sources. Access the databases from off-campus by logging in with your MyFSU username and password.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
News coverage at the local, state, regional, national, and international level from over 12,400 print and online newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos.
Chicago Tribune: 1849-1998 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Digitized pages of every issue of the Chicago Tribune from 1849 through 1998 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.
Detroit Free Press: 1831-1999 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Digitized pages of every issue of the Detroit Free Press from 1831 through 1999 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.
Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs This link opens in a new window
Digitized pages of over 4,000 publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand from 1543-1945 on suffrage, feminism, and daily life in the English-speaking world.
Global Commodities This link opens in a new window
Manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organizations around the world depicting the history of fifteen major commodities and examining the ways that they have changed the world. Commodities include chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
GPO: Government Printing Office (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
Citations for millions of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, records, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments from 1976 to present.
New York Times: 1851-2020 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Digitized pages of every issue of the New York Times from 1851 through 2020 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.
American Periodicals (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Digitized pages of over 1,240 American special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children’s and women’s magazines published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Washington Post: 1877-2008 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Digitized pages of every issue of the Washington Post from 1877 through 2008 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.

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