LibGuides: FYSM 197: Reader's Identity and Culture (Katz): Primary Sources

Newspapers & Magazines

ProQuest News and Newspapers: U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Includes the current content of the Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
From ResearchIT CT
Nexis UNI This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Personalization features include Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Center for Jewish History
"The Center provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The partners’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel"--site.

Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.

The Watkinson
The Watkinson Library serves as a public research library, the rare book and special collections of the Trinity College Library, and the repository of the Trinity College archives.

Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text of over 70,000 free e-books. Focus is on older works in which United States copyright protection has expired.

Internet Archive
In addition to archiving websites, the Internet Archive also boasts a huge collection of freely accessible texts, images, audio files, and films. The "Feature Films" collection is particularly fantastic if you're looking for old movies that are out of copyright.