Research Guides: Doing Research in English: Accessing Primary Sources Online

Hathi Trust

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Access public domain books and journals from U.S. research libraries digitized by Google, Internet Archive, and other digitization partnerships.

Williams College Archives Unbound Collection
The College Archives provides access to material, born digital or digitized, regardless of original format. Unbound offers a platform for sharing our oral histories, photographs, theses, syllabi, moving image material, maps, posters, manuscripts and texts
The Williams Record (digitized issues)
Publication Dates: 1904-1990
Student newspaper of Williams College.
Note: from 1972 to 1975 The Williams Record was merged with The Williams Advocate under the title RecordAdvocate.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1473-1700
Contains virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Early American Imprints: Evans 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1639-1800
Contains electronic editions of books, pamphlets and broadsides from the 17th and 18th century detailing life in America at that time.
Early American Newspapers Series 1 This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1690-1876
Part of the America's Historical Newspapers database. Contains the full text of historical American newspapers, focusing largely on the 18th century.

Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains archived web pages, texts, audio, moving images, television news, and software digitized by libraries, archives, and Internet Archive users. Particularly good for finding out-of-copyright books published before 1930.