SJSU Research Guides: SJSU Special Collections & Archives: Digital Primary Sources

History Databases

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
Diaries, letters, memoirs, bibliography & other primary source material about the Civil War
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window
A full-text database including over 10,000 pages of primary source material written by over 2000 different authors, all dealing with the experience of immigrating to the United States and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 This link opens in a new window
This resource contains 150,000 pages of materials drawn from the letters and diaries of 1,325 women beginning with early Colonial period through to the 1950’s.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new window
This collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history and currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.