Primary Source Material databases for NSU patrons

1. 1. American Civil War: Letters and DiariesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a battles database, and more in a 100,000-page collection. The materials are indexed with dozens of search fields, and there are 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images.
   
   
2. 2. Civil War : Sources in U.S. History Online - Florida Electronic Library ResourceLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Gale Cengage Learning
   Explore writings from the Civil War by those who lived it. Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War includes primary source documents — personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, regimental histories and photograph albums, legal treatises and children's books — that present readers with a rare chance to learn firsthand what life was like when the violent divide between north and south threatened to destroy the United States.
   
   
3. 3. Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference WorksLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Contains real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
   
   
4. 4. New York Times (1851-2016) in ProQuest Historical NewspapersLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
   Provides full page and article images with searchable full-text for the New York Times and its predecessor, the New York Times Daily News, from 1851 to 2016.
   
   
5. 5. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral HistoriesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories describing what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included.
   
   
6. 6. North American Women's Letters and DiariesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
   Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years. Contains approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.
   
   
7. 7. Shoah FoundationLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
   The Visual History Archive (VHA) includes both the monumental Holocaust collection that had its genesis from Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and resources from other crimes against humanity. The vast collection includes the complete testimonies from witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other notable genocides including the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), Nanjing Massacre (1937), Rwanda (1994), and Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996). The resource includes firsthand primary source accountings with 53,000 recorded testimonies, 112,000 hours of video, participants from 63 countries and 39 languages, 1.8 million names, and 700,000 images.
   Users must create a personal account to use this database. For more information about Visual History Archive see this guide.
   
8. 8. Visual History Archive (VHA) USC Shoah FoundationLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
   The Visual History Archive (VHA) includes both the monumental Holocaust collection that had its genesis from Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and resources from other crimes against humanity. The vast collection includes the complete testimonies from witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other notable genocides including the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), Nanjing Massacre (1937), Rwanda (1994), and Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996). The resource includes firsthand primary source accountings with 53,000 recorded testimonies, 112,000 hours of video, participants from 63 countries and 39 languages, 1.8 million names, and 700,000 images.
   Users must create a personal account to use this database. For more information about Visual History Archive see this guide.