US Government Primary Sources
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ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new windowAll things Congress- full text of: federal bills and laws (1776-present); voting records (1987-present); U.S. Serial Set and American State Papers (1817-present); published and unpublished Congressional hearings from (1824 to present); Congressional Record (1873-present) and its predecessor publications (1789-1873); Congressional Research Service reports (1916-present). Coverage: 1789-present
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ProQuest Executive Branch Documents 1789-1952 This link opens in a new windowContains documents produced by US executive branch departments, agencies, and commissions from 1789 - 1952. Coverage: 1789-1952
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FBI Records: The VaultContains declassified FBI records of surveillance activities. Includes records relating to labor and civil rights organizations, organized crime, and other groups and individuals the FBI has monitored over time.
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National ArchivesSearch by topic, group, person to see if they have primary sources of interest.
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Library of Congress Digital CollectionsThousands of digital records grouped into online collections that span US history.
Primary Sources
Sources from ZSR
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British Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new windowProvides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons from 1695 to 2015 and the 19th Century House of Lords. It covers working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. Coverage: 1688-2015
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Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s This link opens in a new windowContains FBI files on a wide range of organizations, people, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements. Includes files on Abbie Hoffman, Ceasar Chavez, The Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society and more. Coverage: 1956-1971
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Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 This link opens in a new windowContains Justice Department and FBI files on a wide range of African American organizations, people, and activities from 1928-1984. Includes Malcom X, W.E.B. Dubois, NAACP, and more. Coverage: 1920-1984
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Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress This link opens in a new windowThe Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was formed in 1946 by a merger of three groups with ties to the Communist Party: the International Labor Defense, the National Negro Congress, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. The records in this collection represent the files of the national office of the CRC, including case files, publications, correspondence, etc. Coverage: 1946-1955
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Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party This link opens in a new windowThis collection of documents from the FBI, local and state police, and other law enforcement agencies provides insights into the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, including the motivations of the Communist organizers, the shootings, subsequent investigations, and efforts to heal the Greensboro community. Coverage: 1979-1981
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HeinOnline Labor and Employment Database This link opens in a new windowCovers US labor history and current labor issues in the US. It combines legislative histories, Supreme Court case briefs, accounts of historical labor riots, current reports on working conditions, and scholarly book and journal content.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000 This link opens in a new windowIncludes primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. Also includes a searchable online edition of the highly respected research tool "Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary" (5 volumes, 1971–2004), fully integrated into the broader Women & Social Movements database.
Web Sources (Collections, Archives, etc.)
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Eurodocs List of Primary Sources from the UKThis site links to dozens of primary source collections from the UK.
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Fabian Society TractsThe Fabian Society started publishing tracts in 1884, and included in this site are most tracts up to 2000. Many of the early tracts were written by LSE founders George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb
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Joseph A. Ladabie Collection at UMichThe Joseph A. Labadie Collection is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive collections of its kind, with materials on anarchism, anti-colonialist movements, antiwar and pacifist movements, atheism and free thought, civil liberties and civil rights, ecology, labor and workers’ rights, feminism, LGBTQ movements, prisons and prisoners, the New Left, the Spanish Civil War, and youth and student protest.
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Kheel Center for Labor ManagementThe Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives was founded in 1949 as the Labor-Management Documentation Center. Its continuing purpose is the preservation of original source materials relevant to the history of American labor unions, management theory as it applies to labor and industrial relations, and the history of employees at the workplace.
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Independent VoicesIndependent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
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Labor Archives of WashingtonThe Labor Archives of Washington (LAW) was founded in 2010 to preserve the records of working people and their unions and to serve as a center for historical research, ensuring that new generations have access to the rich labor history of the region.
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Marxist Internet ArchiveArchived journals, magazines and newspapers.
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Social Welfare History ArchivesThe Archives' mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to historical records on social services and social reform in the United States. The Social Welfare History Archives was founded in 1964 through the work of University of Minnesota historian, Clarke Chambers. During his research on social service organizations, he discovered that many still had historical records. He recognized the research potential of these collections and established the Archives to document the history of social service and social reform in the United States.
