The Greenwood Library has purchased five digital collections of primary documents relevant to history, political science, sociology, and military science.
Two new Civil War archives complement the Civil War: Newspaper Perspective from Accessible Archives:
- Civil War: The Soldiers’ Perspective contains regimental histories published after the war as well as rosters and muster lists of all Union regiments.
- Civil War: The Generals’ Perspective contains books and memoirs with an emphasis on battle strategies and tactics, primarily by Union officers with some Confederate generals’ narratives.
Three collections from Gale Cengage’s Archives Unbound offer full-text primary sources on a variety of topics:
- Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia contains diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers about Appalachia.
- “We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:” Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 contains primary documents from the FBI Library related to the 1961 Freedom Ride and subsequent events.
- Witchcraft in Europe and America includes classic texts, anti-persecution writings, legal and church documents, transcripts of trials and exorcisms and other documents, primarily in English, Latin or German.