History: Primary Sources

Coverage: 18th and 19th centuries

Provides access to searchable, full text, primary and secondary materials related to colonial America and the early Republic. Includes the personal papers and manuscripts of the major figures of the early Republic.

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Coverage: 1809-1971

Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource consists of a large variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts of interactions between the U.S. Army and American Indian tribes in the west.

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Coverage: 1946-1975

This database contains primary resources such as radio broadcasts, periodicals, newspapers, and government documents from around the world and provides in depth analysis of the roots and history of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

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Coverage: 1941-1996

Digital archive covering foreign perspectives of American racial issues in the mid-20th century, containing unique primary source documents on racial justice from around the world and providing insight into many important historical events and movements. 

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Coverage: 1946-1996

International survey of the effects of apartheid on South Africa and the world with a digitized collection of primary source documents related to apartheid. 

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Coverage: 1890-present

Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource provides access to texts that document the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century from the perspectives of men, women, and children. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to two modules:

• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records 
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers Part 1 

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Coverage: 1945-1991

International primary source documents on the Cold War. Resources include news broadcasts, reports, and publications.  

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Coverage: 1574-1757

Provides access to primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, English conflicts with the Spanish and French, maritime history, plantations, and slavery are all covered in this database.

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Provides access to relevant sources relating to the composition and structure of Article III Courts, as well as documents prepared by various Congresses relating to the purpose, formation, organization and restructuring of the federal government. Features William H. Manz's Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, Federal Judicial Center publications, links to various scholarly articles, CFR Title 28 (Judicial Administration), and other related works.

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Coverage: 1954-1999

The DNSA collection is the most comprehensive collection available of significant declassified U.S. government documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to four sub-collections relating to Latin American policy and human rights:

• El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
• El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994 
• Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
• Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the U.S., 1954-1999

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Coverage: 1941-1996

Provides access to the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. This resource includes translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and commentary. 

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Provides access to a comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals. Each journal in the database begins from its inception. Also includes access to code of federal regulations, legal classics, treaties and agreements, U.S. Attorney General opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. statutes at large, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. 

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Coverage: 1941-1996

Digital archive covering all aspects of 20th-century human migration, including first-hand reports and global analysis. 

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Coverage: 1789-present

Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to understand and analyze Native American migration and forced resettlement throughout U.S. history, U.S. Government Indian removal policies, and subsequent actions to address Native American claims against the U.S. Government. This collection includes congressional publications, treaties, maps, and docket materials for all Indian Claims Commission cases, as well as cases that preceded and followed the existence of the commission.

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Coverage: 1957-1995

Provides access to English translations of foreign language materials from regions throughout the world. Includes monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts. This database is ideal for the study of history of science, global economics, agriculture, health, political culture, international relations, and military affairs.

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Coverage: 1789-present

Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service containing full-text publications generated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. public laws. Texts available include the full text of the public law itself, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, prints, and other congressional publications.

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Provides full text access to documents related to the U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.

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Coverage: 1958-1994

Digital archive spanning 19 countries and four decades covering cultural, economic, and political developments within the regions. 

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Electronic version of the 21-volume publication; covers Eisenhower's career before and during World War II and through his presidency. Materials include maps, photographs, previously classified documents, handwritten correspondence, and cables. 

Johns Hopkins University Press will cease to publish this resource at the end of 2025. Access for OU Libraries will end on December 31, 2025. 

Coverage: 1789-present

Includes hearings (1824-present); CRS Reports (1916-present); House and Senate Documents/Reports (Serial Set; 1817-present); legislative histories (1969-present); bills and laws (1776-present); miscellaneous publications including GAO, CBO, the American State Papers, the House and Senate Journals (1789-present); vote reports (1987-present); maps (1789-2007); Congressional Record (1789-present); executive branch (1789-1932); and presidential materials such as executive orders (1789-present). Many of these are full text.

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Provides access to all U.S. treaties, whether currently in force, expired, or not yet officially published. 

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Coverage: 1774-present

Features the complete Congressional Record bound version, as well as the daily updated version back to 1980. Also includes the following predecessor titles: Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789), Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), as other important congressional material.

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Provides access to a wide range of previously classified federal records from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These documents cover significant foreign policy development and international crisis, as well as domestic issues. Materials include policy papers, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, military reports, diplomatic correspondence, CIA and FBI intelligence memoranda, and more.

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Coverage: 1774-present

Comprehensive guide to federal, state, local, and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication. Includes title information for federal documents and subject index entries from Poore's, Hickcox, and the GPO Monthly Catalog.

Full text of the rolls of parliament, translated and in the original Latin, Anglo-Norman or Middle English. The rolls were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272) until the reign of Henry VII (1509).

Coverage: 1509-1714

State Papers Online is published in four parts covering two hundred years of British and European history. Includes documents from the 16th-18th century British government, including correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts. 

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Coverage: 1574-1757

Provides access to primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, English conflicts with the Spanish and French, maritime history, plantations, and slavery are all covered in this database.

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Coverage: 1545-1900

Nearly 26,000 pamphlets bringing together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Collections include Cowen Tracts (1603-1898), Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection (1800-1900), Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection (1545-1900), Hume Tracts (1769-1890), Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (1792-1868), Selections - University of Manchester British Political Pamphlets Collection (1799-1900), Selections - London School of Economics and Political Science (1800-1899), Selections - University of Bristol (1800-1899), and Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection (1761-1900).

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