Walker Library: MALA 6050, GEOG 4360, and GS 3040: Contemporary Immigration &amp; Migration Studies: Primary Sources

Primary Sources -- Content Related to Migration, Immigration, & Refugees

Immigration Law & Policy in the U.S. This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of historical and current documents on immigration law and policy, including Board of Immigration Appeals decisions, legislative histories, and more.
Database brochure with content description (pdf)
Migration to New Worlds: The Century of Immigration This link opens in a new window
Primary documents that explore the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia from 1800 to 1924. .
Letter collections, travel journals, diaries and oral histories provide a wealth of first-hand accounts for research into emigration experiences and the hardship of settlement. These are supplemented by scrapbooks, government papers, hand-drawn maps, watercolours, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material which provide significant context to government legislation, commercial interests and living conditions for migrants during this period. Introductory Resources
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange This link opens in a new window
Manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.
Commodities covered include chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, silver and gold
spices, sugar, tea, timber, and wine and spirits. See Nature and Scope for more details on this collection.
Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda This link opens in a new window
Collection of documentary films, features and newsreels produced in the communist world.
Socialism on Film Introduction
Citing and Embedding Films
Trial subcollections (through April 9, 2019):
• 10 Minutes Around the USSR
• Agricultural News
• Around the Soviet Union
• China Today
• Czechoslovak Life and Czechoslovak in Pictures
• GDR Magazine
• Soviet Health
• Science and Technology Magazine
• Soviet Military Newsreels
• Soviet Sport
• Vietnam Newsreel

Current subcollections:
Lenin & the Russian Revolution
The Second World War & the Rise of Fascism
The Vietnam War & Southeast Asia
Global tensions & the Cold War
Nuclear War & Peace Movements
The Holocaust & War Crimes
Revolution, War, Conflict in China & Korea
Revolution in Cuba & Latin America
The Spanish Civil War
China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window
Manuscript materials detailing China's interaction with the West from 1793-1980.
First World War, The: Personal Experiences This link opens in a new window
Drawn from archival collections around the world, this collection offers a glimpse at how people lived their lives during the Great War.
NAACP Papers This link opens in a new window
Digitized documents from the NAACP's major campaigns and important local NAACP branches, 1909-1972. Full-text and searchable. Part of the Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle collection, which also includes Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century modules.
Digital copies of nearly two million pages of NAACP internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. Click on a module below for a content description.

Modules:
Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files
Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department Files
Special Files
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Legal Department Files
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice This link opens in a new window
Primary source documents relating to slavery and social justice.
Nixon Years, The This link opens in a new window
Files from the National Archives relating to the Nixon Administration, 1969-1974.
Sixties, The: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 This link opens in a new window
123,000 pages of primary documents related to 1960s America, including diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
See product brochure (pdf)
Download bibliography (Excel file)

Historical Newspapers

Newspaper titles can be searched separately by selecting or deselecting titles on the main search screen or selecting titles through the Library Database A-Z link.

Historical Newspapers Database
--Ethnic News Watch, 1959-1989
--New York Times, 1851-2013
--Washington Post, 1877-1999
--Chicago Defender, 1909-1975
--Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1942
--Norfolk Journal, 1916-2003
--New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993
--Nashville Tennessean, 1812-1922
--Daily News Journal, 1999-present
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Newspaper titles can be searched separately by selecting or deselecting titles on the main search screen or selecting titles through the Library Database A-Z link.

Other Primary Sources

In addition to the subscription databases, the MTSU Library also owns an extensive microfilm collection related to political history. More resources are described on the Primary Resources Subject Guide.

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MALA 6050, GEOG 4360, and GS 3040: Contemporary Immigration & Migration Studies: Primary Sources

Primary Sources -- Content Related to Migration, Immigration, & Refugees

Historical Newspapers

Other Primary Sources