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Combines multiple bibliographical indexes to published literature and primary source documents in the US and UK from the nineteenth century, including: the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC), Cotgreave's Index, Cumulative Index to Niles’ Register, Index to Legal Periodical Literature, Palmer's Index to the Times, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Stead's Index to Periodical Literature, and Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, along with records from archival collections across the US (Archive Finder) and from other ProQuest collections covering books, serials, and official publications from the period. (Index)

Complete runs of selected African American newspapers published in the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. (Full-Text)

Platform for the preservation and discovery of primary sources on African history and culture in archival collections at African institutions, and around the world.

UNL has access to 69 new primary source collections on the Adam Matthew platform. Click to view the list.

Homestead land entry case files for the state of Nebraska from the records of the General Land Office, covering the period 1863-1908. Files include final certificates, applications with land descriptions, affidavits showing proof of citizenship, register and receiver receipts, notices and final proofs, and testimonies of witnesses. (Full-text and Images)

Modern and historical essays, journals, newspapers, fiction, literature, and poetry on the African diaspora experience. Includes the historical Chicago Defender newspaper. Material comes from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Full-Text)

Primary source books, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides covering American popular culture, social history, family life, education, race, class, and employment from 1800-1920. (Full-Text)

Primary source collection focusing on LGBTQ history and associated social, political, health and legal issues. Includes newspapers, magazines, newsletters, manuscripts, correspondence, and more.

Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. (Full-Text)

Testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Armenian Genocide and events in Nanjing, Guatemala, Myanmar (anti-Rohingya mass violence), Rwanda (genocide against the Tutsi), Cambodia, South Sudan, and Central African Republic; also includes interviews about contemporary anti-Semitic violence. (Streaming Video)