Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 1610-1791
Complete text of the Jesuits' annual reports from New France, over 70 volumes, translated into English. Contain detailed eyewitness accounts by the priests of their contact with many different Indian nations.
Canada in the Making: Primary Sources
Native American Digital Collection from New York State
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The CU Library has Vermont population schedules from the census since 1790 on microfilm. Look at the subheadings under the subject Census in the VSC online catalog, and you'll see the list of our census holdings. The Vermont Historical Society has this material on CD-ROM.
Also see the Primary sources tab on this guide for repositories and directories of materials that don't have a specific Vermont focus
Access and search digitized historical Vermont newspaper content from the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project, available at the
Library of Congress Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
The Rutland Herald and Burlington Free Press are included and are searchable from 1836-1922. You can specify a state or choose an Advanced Search, and select a newspaper to search. Includes titles from all over the state, including Bennington, St. Johnsbury, Middlebury, Brattleboro, Burlington, St. Albans, Newport, Rutland, Woodstock, and Montpelier.
Vermont newspapers dating from the 1700s through 1922 are available online for Vermont residents through the MyVermont.gov state portal. MyVermont.gov accounts are free and can be created by visiting https://secure.vermont.gov/myvermont/. Vermont residents need to make a contact and personal profile and then the link to the newspapers will appear at the top of their myvermont.gov page. See instructions below.
You can search the Burlington Free Press from 1827 to the present in the archives on their website. CU has access to full-text online for 1999-the present, and microfilm back to 1985.
You can search the Rutland Herald from 1794 to the present in the archives on their website. CU has microfilm back to 1792, with some interruptions in coverage.
Castleton student newspapers 1934-present
To find newspapers held at Vermont libraries
Vermont Newspaper Project Catalog
This is a searchable index to the newspaper holdings of close to 100 newspaper repositories in Vermont.
Check the Library Catalog to see which newspapers are available here on microfilm.
Consult a librarian about accessing articles or newspapers not available through any of the above options.
Search a set of Vermont repositories of manuscripts through the UVM Special Collections Library
(personal narrative* or corresponden* or diar* or interview* or oral or eyewitness or letter* or document*)
and "civil war" and Vermont
(The * substitutes for whatever letters that might come next, so that the search includes any words that start with what's typed but might end differently. For example, diar* catches diary and diaries and diarist. Different catalogs use different symbols for this.)
Notice the parentheses around the or phrase and the truncation
child* and (television or TV or television viewing) and violen*
Directory of
Vermont Historical Societies
Rutland County historical societies
Includes full-text of the RHS Quarterly 1970-present
University of Vermont Landscape Change Program
"An on-line archive of historic landscape imagery. The thousands of images in the archive provide an interdisciplinary look at the past and present of the Vermont landscape. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation to digitally document how the Vermont landscape has changed over time."