English Literature: Primary vs. Secondary Sources

Digital Repository of the AUC! Explore thousands of items including theses, dissertations, faculty scholarship, archival materials, audio, video and more.

This is a direct link to the Finding Aids platform that hosts the Archives Research Center's collection. This can also be accessed by searching in the library's catalog.

The Nation’s Largest African American
Video Oral History Collection. 150,153 stories are assembled here from life oral history interviews with 2,712 historically significant African Americans as of July 30, 2024.

About the NAACP Papers

ProQuest and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have teamed up to digitize the association’s archives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civil rights movement to the online world via ProQuest History Vault. The collection is nearly two million pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP’s work and delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues: lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, employment, and housing, among others.

The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.--from Oxford

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.--from GALE Cengage Learning

The Finding Resources page contains mostly secondary sources with some materials containing primary.

Since the popular sources are made of current events they are secondary sources.

This page contains a mixture of primary and secondary materials.