Primary Sources: Primary Source Databases

The Atlantic Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and advertisements) of this The Atlantic Monthly magazine beginning in November 1857 and ending April 2014.

The Eighteenth Century Collections offer full text access to a large collection of items relevant to historical primary source research, including books, pamphlet, essays, and broadsides of works published in the UK and elsewhere during the 18th century. The works are primarily in English, although some are in other languages.

HeritageQuest Online is a collection of American genealogical sources dating back to the 1700s, including unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. The database consists of six core data sets: U.S. Federal Censuses, Genealogy and local history books, Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Records, Freedman’s Bank Records, and The LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set.

The Life Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover issues dating 1936 to Dec. 2000 of the magazine Life published by Time Inc.

Newspaper Source Plus provides selected full-text articles from national, regional, and international newspapers, as well as transcripts from television and radio.

First time users: create a free account at AccessNYT using your MCC email address (required).

Returning users: access Times Machine from any computer and any location, on or off-campus. Login with the account you created the first time you accessed The New York Times subscription from MCC.

If you forgot your password, choose Forgot your password from the login page of nytimes.com.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images of numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on topics such as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life.

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.

The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. An unprecedented collection developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, it offers never before available research opportunities and endless teaching possibilities.

These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depict the architecture of Texas towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years.

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.