Primary Sources for Historical Research: A Library Guide

Includes these collections:

• American History in Video
   
• The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives. 1960–1974
   
• Black Thought and Culture
   
• North American Indian Thought and Culture
   
• The March of Time
   
• World Newsreels Online: 1929–1966
   
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
   
• Women and Social Movements, International
   
• Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
   
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019
   
• World History in Video
   

Includes more than 10,400 pages of archival materials; over 2,300 published monographs totaling more than 37,000 pages; 241 complete videos; more than 3,000 pages of reports, journal articles, and other full-text items; more than 1,000 images (most from The Getty); and nearly 700 links to vetted, important external websites.

Meet the Press is broadcast-television's longest-running program, with interviews, panels and debates from across the political spectrum that were televised 1947 through 2013.

60 Minutes is a highly successful program, with numerous Emmy and Peabody awards, and is the longest continuously-running prime-time program in American television history. Includes episodes from 1997 to 2014. Also includes 175 hours of CBS Sunday Morning. These programs are in high-definition streaming format.

The Visual History Archive contains 55,000 audiovisual interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. Interviewees are primarily Jewish survivors, though the archive also includes interviews with gay/lesbian, Jehovah's Witness, and Roma and Sinta (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and war crimes trial participants.

Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the following:

1915 Armenian Genocide
1937 Nanjing Massacre in China
Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979
Guatemalan Genocide of the early 1980s
1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic
Contemporary acts of violence against Jews

The interviews were conducted in 62 different countries and in 41 languages and comprise the most extensive resource of its type. Each interview is fully indexed, thus allowing the viewer to search using either the assigned index terms or a free-text search. Additionally, transcripts are provided for many of the testimonies.