Music Research Guide

Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books, treaties, speeches, and diaries dating from the earliest contact with European settlers to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Sourced from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection. Tutorial.

Contains over 1,100 historical American periodicals published between 1740 and 1940. Tutorial.

Primary material of historical importance including legislative and executive documents, speeches of U.S. presidents and coverage of historical events from 1789-1838. Tutorial.

Books, journals, diaries and pioneer accounts, maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, and artwork of the American West from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Tutorial.

Primary documents of African American history from the following time periods: 1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); 2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); 3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); 4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); 5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); 6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000). Tutorial.

Rare texts, visual images, personal and business correspondence, newspapers, and maps which document the trading and cultural relationships between China, America, and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Tutorial.

Archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States covering a wide range of topics for research in American history, political science, social justice and related fields. Tutorial.

British Foreign and Colonial Office documents covering the whole of South and Central America, including the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Tutorial.

Contains digital page images of almost every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America between 1400-1700. Tutorial.

Late medieval manuscript illuminations and maps documenting journeys to Central Asia and the Far East (including Mongolia, Persia, India, China, and South-East Asia), and the Holy Land. Tutorial.

The Race Relations Institute was a pioneering social science organisation, and its archive includes speeches, statistics, reports and much more, from 1943-1970. Discover a wealth of primary source material on the Civil Rights Movement, segregation, discrimination and racial theory in America during 3 pivotal decades of the 20th century. Tutorial.

Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice. Tutorial.

Womens world travel writing from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Collection includes manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, drawings, guidebooks, and photographs. Tutorial.

Contains over 370,000 publications of the United States Congress from 1817-1994. Covers cover subjects such as slavery and civil rights, the Civil War and Reconstruction, westward expansion and the displacement of Native Americans, women’s suffrage and minority rights, international relations and conflicts, worldwide discovery, space exploration and more. Tutorial.

Contains images and indexing for maps published in reports and documents of the 37th Congress, 1st Session through the 103rd Congress, 2nd session. Tutorial.

Contains resources on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes videos, articles, primary sources, and archives. Tutorial.