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Navigating Primary Source Databases (BMC)

This guide provides a more detailed look at the subcollections within primary source databases.

Accessible Archives

Collections within Accessible Archives include:

  • African American Newspapers

    • The Liberator

    • National Anti-Slavery Standard

  • African-American Newspapers of the South

  • American County Histories

  • America in World War I: Military Camp Newspapers

  • American Inventor

  • The Civil War Collection

  • Colonial Newspapers

    • South Carolina Newspapers

    • The Pennsylvania Gazette

    • The Virginia Gazette

  • Frank Leslie’s Weekly

  • Women's Magazines & Newspapers

    • Godey’s Lady’s Book

    • History of Woman Suffrage

    • The Woman’s Tribune

  • Anatomy of Protest in America

  • Native Americans in History

  • Quarantine and Disease Control in America

Freely Available Collections

  • Twelve Years A Slave

  • The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue

  • Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets

  • Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman