Research Guides: Political Science / Government: Primary Sources

Primary vs. Secondary Sources

HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Project Gutenberg
You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

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LexisNexis: Nexis Uni
Provides government, news, business, and legal publications.
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Presidential Recordings
An online portal providing access to conversations recorded during the presidential terms of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Transcripts of the conversations are available.