The Sixties: Primary Documents Online
The Library has a subscription to a database of primary sources from the 1960s: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives. This database documents the key events, trends, and movements in 
1960s America (1960-1974), including 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, as well as rare audio and video materials.
This database is restricted to the UC Berkeley community; don't forget to set up off-campus access if you're accessing it from off-campus.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Want to find scanned articles from major U.S. newspapers, 
going back to the mid-19th century? You can do this through an easy-to-use online database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers. This database includes articles from the Chicago Defender (1905-1975), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1987), Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), the New York Times (1851-2007), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1993), and the Washington Post (1877-1994).
Trying to use Historical Newspapers from off-campus? Be sure to set up off-campus access. Use of this resource is restricted to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
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Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
Contains audio files of over 1200 CDs, featuring 7500 compositions of classical music, folk music, opera, jazz, country music, early rhythm and blues, musical theater, experimental music, electronic music, early rock and Native American music from the United States. This broad spectrum of American music is derived from recordings available on the New World Records label, and works of contemporary classical American music from labels such as CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable. QuickTime 6.5.2 or later required.
Alternative Press Sources
These sources index alternative, ethnic, left-leaning, and/or independent magazines and newspapers, mostly from the United States. Sources like the Village Voice, the Advocate, and the American Prospect are included. These databases are good sources for reviews of albums or performances.
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Alt-Press Watch
Alternative, radical, and independent magazines, newspapers, and journals in North America which report on politics and government, policy and culture, international issues, education, environment as well as reviews of theater, movies and books.
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Alternative Press Index
Includes more than 450 alternative, radical, and left magazines, newsletters, and journals in North America which report and analyze issues of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Approximately 90% of publications included are not indexed elsewhere. Indexes editorials, regular columns, essays, fiction; speeches, interviews, statistics, reprints; bibliographies, biographies, obituaries, memoirs; and reviews. Alternative Press Index Archive provides coverage of materials from 1969 to 1990.
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Ethnic News Watch
Indexes over 200 ethnic, minority, and native press publications. Contains news, culture, and history searchable in both English and Spanish. Also includes a retrospective backfile of titles (1960-1989).
Searching OskiCat for Primary Sources
Certain words and phrases (part of the Library of Congress Subject Headings c
lassification system) will find primary sources in library catalogs. You can use these in OskiCat or Melvyl:
-correspondence
-sources
-diaries
-personal narratives
-interviews
-speeches
-documents
-archives
-early works to 1800
-newspapers
Examples:
- history victorian britain sources
- women 19th century personal narratives