Research Guides: HGP 471 : Senior Seminar: Find Primary Sources

Top Primary Source Sites

Adams State Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
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Contains records of all print resources in Adams State Library, and some electronic resources. Allows users to check their records, renew books, and request items be placed on hold.
EBSCO eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Online platform for reading academic eBooks.

Western Americana Microfilm (Adams State Library)
Microfilm containing printed sources for the exploration, settlement, and development of the Trans-Mississippi West from 1550-1900. Browse by person or topic, or check the library's print subject guide.
Denver Public Library Digital Collections
This online collection contains a selection of photographs, maps, broadsides, architectural drawings and other documents from the collections of the Western History/Genealogy Department chronicling the people, places, and events that shaped the settlement and growth of the Western United States.
Digital Public Library of America
DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents—are free and immediately available in digital format.

Library of Congress Digital Collections
A collection of primary sources, including photographs and written documents available from the Library of Congress.
Beinecke Digital Collections - Yale University
Books, manuscripts, maps, art, prints, photographs, and printed ephemera which document the exploration, settlement, and development of the Trans-Mississippi West through World War I.

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
Includes more than 500,000 digitized pages, representing 163 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923.

History Colorado Online Collection
An array of archives, artifacts, and photographs documenting the people and places of Colorado.

Use Wikipedia, Spark Notes, etc. for inspiration, but not as sources for your paper.