Online Primary Source Chronology
These sources are organized by starting date.
What is a primary source? Distinguishing Primary from Secondary Sources
| TITLE & PRIMARY COVERAGE AREA | pre-1600 | 1600s | 1700s | 1800s | 1900-1950 | 1950-1999 | 2000s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament Rolls of Medieval England |  |
1272-1509 | ||||||
| Women`s Writers Project |  |
1400-1850 | ||||||
| Early English Books Online (EEBO) Pollard and Redgrave, Wing Short Title Catalog |
|
1478-1700 | ||||||
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1676-1700 (bibliography only - full text may be availalbe in EEBO, ECCO, or other resources) |
|
1493 to 1750 | ||||||
| Slavery and Anti-slavery: a Transnational Archive Part 1, 2 and 3: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Slave Trade in the Atlantic, the Institution of Slavery |
|
1500-1984 | ||||||
| Cecil Papers Documents relating to English domestic and foreign politics |
|
1520-1668 | ||||||
| 17th - 18th Century Burney Newspaper Collection | |
1600-1800 | ||||||
| Pre 1800's periodicals available at Colgate A chronological list of print and online periodicals |
|
1605-1806 | ||||||
| 19th Century Masterfile (Poole`s Plus) (lmited full text) |
|
1619-1922 | ||||||
| America's Historic Imprints (Early American Imprints - Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker) |
 |
1639-1820 | ||||||
| Early American Newspapers | |
1649-1928 | ||||||
| British Periodicals Collection 1 | |
1681-1937 | ||||||
| American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals | |
1691-1877 | ||||||
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) | |
1700-1800 | ||||||
| American Memory Project Digitized collections sponsored by the Library of Congress |
|
1700-present | ||||||
| Rotunda's Americas Founding Era Writings of the early U.S. Presidents |
|
1730-1880 | ||||||
| Times of London | |
1785-2006 | ||||||
| Lexis Nexis Congressional | |
1789- present | ||||||
| World Newspaper Archives - African Newspapers | |
1800-1922 | ||||||
| African American Newspapers: 19th Century | |
1827-1862 | ||||||
| African American Newspapers - 1827-1998 | |
1827-1998 | ||||||
| Times of India | |
1838-2001 | ||||||
| Illustrated London News | |
1842-2003 | ||||||
| Chicago Tribune | |
1849-1986 | ||||||
| New York Times | |
1851-3 years ago | British documents on foreign affairs Reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential (print only) |
|
1856-1956 | |||
| Nation Digital Archive | |
1865-1 year ago | ||||||
| Harper's Week | |
1857-1912 | ||||||
| American County Histories to 1900. New York Pt. 4 North | |
1800's - early 1900's | ||||||
| Digital National Security Archive Declassified government documents |
|
1900-present | ||||||
| Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 | |
1917-1970 | ||||||
| Jerusalem Post Historical Newspaper | |
1932-1988& | ||||||
| Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996 | |
1974-1996 | ||||||
| World News Connection | |
2006-present | ||||||
| pre-1600 | 1600s | 1700s | 1800s | 1900-1950 | 1950-1999 | 2000s | ||
-Resources from around the globe - covers primarily United States - covers primarily United Kingdom