Guides: Native American and Indigenous Studies: Primary Sources

Primary Source Databases

Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents covering a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward.

Denver Public Library
The Denver Public Library collection offers indexes, directories, maps, atlases, city records, images, and more.
Digital Public Library of America
Discover historical images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Search a variety of Gale products including Archives Unbound, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, and Sabin Americana, 1500 - 1926.

History Colorado Center
History Colorado's collections—from books and manuscripts to artifacts and photographs—encapsulate the rich history of the state.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Issues and Controversies in History This link opens in a new window
This source reports on pivotal events in American and world history. It has background articles, biographies, images, timelines, charts, and primary source documents.

National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Records are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching a historical topic that interests you.

Sabin Americana, 1500 - 1926 This link opens in a new window
An online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s; based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana – A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time.
The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism This link opens in a new window
A digital collection of 14,195 documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library.

Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC)
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 2.5 million digitized pages, representing more than 620 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 through 2021.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newpapers This link opens in a new window
Primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1851 - 2018