History of education: Primary sources
This guide is for those beginning research in the history of education.
Primary sources
- American periodicals series online. 1740-1900Includes over 1,000 periodicals and 7,000,000 pages of full text periodicals covering the years 1740-1900.
- Archive of AmericanaSearch the comprehensive historical collections, containing books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera. Collections include: American broadsides and ephemera, Early American imprints, series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American imprints, series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; Early American newspapers, series I, 1690-1876, and government publications including American state papers, 1789-1838, House and Senate journals, series I, 1789-1817, Senate executive journals, series I, 1789-1866 and U.S. Congressional serial set, 1817-1980
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North AmericaBibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (BIPNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, education, the gaming industry, religion, folklore, economic development, acculturation, mythology, missions, tribal governments, and ethnohistory.
- C19, the nineteenth century indexC19 indexes publications of the Anglo-American World, 1790-1919. Collections expand with each release of the database. You may search the entire index and thus all the resources contained within it, or limit your search to one of the individual resources included in the database.
- 19th Century Schoolbooks - Full-text collection from the University of Pittsburgh"The Full-Text Collection contains 140 schoolbooks from the Nietz Old Textbook Collection....The entire texts of all books in the collection can be searched. Searches will retrieve every title containing the search term. Clicking on a title link recovers bibliographic information about the book and a list of pages where the search term was located. Choosing a link to an individual page displays an image of the page."
- Stanford publicationsThis site brings together a variety publications documenting Stanford University. Included are course catalogs, directories, newsletters, magazines, journals, and more.
- Activism @ StanfordIncludes 5600+ photographs documenting student demonstrations, sit-ins and protests dating back to the 1960s.
- Women @ Stanford"This exhibit documents the history of women at Stanford. Included are collections of various administrators, faculty members, and research centers, as well as materials documenting students and student life, athletics, and activism."
- Hoover Institution Library and ArchivesIncluding the Hanna Collection On The Role of Education In Twentieth Century Society.
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