Research Guides: Finding Primary Source Materials: Databases

Periodical Databases

The databases below can limit to Primary Source Documents in the Publication Type menu on the Advanced Search page:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles.
History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text books, magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals covering all time periods of U.S. and World History.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Full-text national and international newspapers.

More News Sources

The following news database can limit to speeches, correspondence, cartoons, pamphlets, and interviews on the Advanced Search page under Document Type:

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full-text national newspapers including New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, and USA Today. Local and regional newspapers.

Image and Video Databases

Artstor This link opens in a new window
A digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.

For more information about finding images and art sources, please see our Art Research and Finding Images research guide.