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HIST 3442: American Migrant Cities

Resource guide to primary sources for HIST 3442: American Migrant Cities

Primary Source Databases

Umbra Search African American History
Umbra Search brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials documenting African American history and culture from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.

Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Searchable American newspapers from 1770-1963.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times & Washington Post This link opens in a new window
This database offers full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times and Washington Post; the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in downloadable PDF files.

Tips to Finding Databases

Looking for primary sources related to a city that isn't San Antonio? Some ways to identify relevant, reliable primary source databases:

Search for historic newspapers from that city. Chronicling America from the Library of Congress is a great resource.
Look at the library websites for colleges and universities in and near that city. They may have a section with digitized material from their archives, or a resource guide like this one.
Find the website of an historical society or history museum.