C&I 177-W1: "The Curious & Open-Hearted Historian: Thinking Creatively About the Past," Professor Pat Reeve; Spring 2021.: Primary & Contemporaneous Sources

In the series covering 1691-1820, a search for Plimouth results in reprints of contemporaneous narratives.

Full text and searchable digitized version of the New York Times from 1851 through 2018. (Current NYT content is available through our New York Times site license.)

Full text and searchable digitized version of the Wall Street Journal from 1889 through 2004.

This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: 1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860) -- 2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877) -- 3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932) -- 4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945) -- 5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975) -- 6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000). The documents presented here represent a selection of primary sources available in several ProQuest databases. The databases represented in this website include American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street's Black Thought and Culture

Contains over 10,000 articles, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines. Core content includes Black Women in America and African American National Biography.

See the Timeline Browsein the top banner, for civil rights legislative histories.

Scroll to > U.S. Supreme Court Library > Introduction > Landmark Cases > Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 (7-2 decision) > View PDF of the original publication: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in The supreme Court of the United States. December Term, 1856.

In the 'Guided Search' section > Cases > Federal Cases > search for Scott v. Sandford to find the 1857 majority opinion and two dissents.