WMU Research Guides: HIST 6010: Historiography: Historical Document Collections

Sampling of Full-Text Document Collections

The WMU Libraries offer you a wide variety of full-text databases containing historical and primary documents. Here are just a few.

American Civil War Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Making of America (Cornell) This link opens in a new window
Making of America (Michigan) This link opens in a new window

Making of Modern Michigan

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window

American Memory

The Library of Congress's American Memory site offers multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. It includes over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression-era photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell.

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