Collins Memorial Library: History 364: American Environmental History: Primary Sources

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Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870 to 1980
Access to a large archive of primary source materials, including unpublished manuscripts, government documents, news clippings, and more.

Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
"Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress."
Western Waters Digital Library
Digital collections of significant primary and secondary resources on water in the western United States.

New York Times (ProQuest)
Includes The New York Times; Late Edition (East Coast), New York Times Magazine, and New York Times Book Review.
News & Newspapers (ProQuest)
Contains all of the news content provided to Puget Sound by ProQuest. Includes alternative, national, international, local and historical news.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Focus is on ethnic area studies, and related arts, business, education, environment, history, journalism, political science and sociology news. Some Spanish language sources are available.
Alt-PressWatch
A full text database comprised of articles from alternative and independent press newspapers, magazines and journals.
Washington State News
Explore and research topics across Washington State. This resource contains news sources from across the state including: the Bellingham Herald, Columbian, Kitsap Sun, News Tribune, The Olympian, Seattle PI, Seattle Times, Spokesman-Review, Tri-City Herald, Yakima Herald-Republic and more.

New York Times Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Includes full page images of the New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and the New York Times (1857-2017).
Los Angeles Times Historical Newspaper (1881-1996) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of the Los Angeles Times newspaper (1881-1992).
Nation Archive
Long regarded as one of the country's definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books and the arts The Nation continues to stand as an independent voice in American journalism. This database contains full text for the complete archive of The Nation beginning with its first issue in 1865 through June 2020.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

Chronicling America: Historical Newspapers
Digitized U.S. newspapers, 1789-1922.
Making of America
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Provides full-text access to several 19th-century periodicals.

Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega
Includes indexing as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles as far back as 1994. Provides access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content from the original article. Subject coverage is multidisciplinary.
AAS Historical Periodicals
Search the complete collection of American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Parts I-VII.