LibGuides: HIST 497A Food Will Win the War: Primary Source Resources

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Selected CSUN Primary Source Databases

American Periodicals Series Online (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Collection contains searchable, digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century, chronicling the development of America across 150 years.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
A searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase.
Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources recording every quantifiable aspect of the history of the United States, including such areas as population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window
The United States Congressional Serial Set contains reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994). Provides access to full text primary source material on U.S. political, social, cultural, military and ethnic history, as well as international relations, explorations, genealogy, commerce, and industrial development.

Google Books & More

Google Book Search This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. In Google Book Search, the user may view pages from the book, find out \more about this book
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. This digital library is made up primarily of public domain works.

Google N Gram Viewer

The Google Ngram Viewer or Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts the frequencies of any set of search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed between 1500 and 2019 in Google's text corpora in English, Chinese (simplified), French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, or Spanish.

Historical Newspaper Databases (CSUN subscription)

New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times from 1851-2012.
Times Digital Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Complete digital edition of The Times (London, England).
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Full-page and article images from the Los Angeles Daily Times (1881-1886) and the Los Angeles Times (1886-2012).

What is a Primary Source?

correspondence
diaries
early works to 1800
interviews
pamphlets
periodicals
personal narratives
sources
oral histories
wills
probate records
sermons
church records and registers