Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century.
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents, covering a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
Gale Primary Sources allows unified searching of Gale primary source collections for a comprehensive research experience.
Provides users with a source to research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.
Explore pamphlets that give insight into 19th Century Britain from the following collections: Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, LSE Selected Pamphlets, Selections from University of Manchester British Political Pamphlets Collection, and the Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection.
A collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress includes Congressional reports & documents, executive agency & departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress, the American State Papers, as well as maps, illustrations, photos, and lithographs
American Indian Newspapers provides digital access to North American Indigenous journalism from a range of communities, historic presses, and contemporary periodicals spanning two centuries from 1828-2016.
This collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers that best represent nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.
Users can study the progression of events over time by searching or browsing full-text, full-image issues of the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1867-2001 with access to news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Cover-to-cover digitization of the entire newspaper for 1851-2015. Searchable via the ProQuest platform.
Historical newspaper archive that covers all major international historical events from 1785 and onward.
Historical newspaper archive that covers all major international historical events from 1785 and onward.
Includes digitized images of pages from American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Provides a searchable index to full articles, editorials, news briefs, cartoons, illustrations, poetry, and advertisements from Harper's Weekly during the Civil War era from 1857-1865.
A searchable archive of leading women's interest magazines that serves multiple research areas from gender studies, social history, the arts, education, politics, and marketing/media history.
Digitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 1 presents titles dating from 1693 through 1820.
Digitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 2 presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837.
Digitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 3 presents over 1,700 titles dating from 1838 through 1852.
Digitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 4 presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865.
Digitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 5 presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877.
This is a short list of primary source collections available on Minnesota in the 1860s in the MSU Library. Since many of the class are not local, only items that can be sent to another library have been included.
Many of these collections are microfilm. If you are interested in any of the resources that say (Index to collection can be found on top of the microfilm cabinets) and would like to know more without visiting Mankato please contact the University Archives (archives@mnsu.edu or 507-389-1029).
