Research Guide: Primary Sources

This guide was created to help you learn more about primary sources

"The Current" - Green River College Digital Newspaper Archive

"The Current" Green River College Student Newspaper Digital Archive contains issues from 1965-2009, with more recent issues added regularly.

  • Keyword search the full text of all issues.
  • Or search by date range or a specific date.
  • Use as a primary source! (Articles from a specific time period can be primary sources, eg, newspaper articles that reported student protests in the 1960s or the college's name change in 2014.)

King County Library System (KCLS) - History Databases

Green River Students can freely use the KCLS libraries!

King Count Library System logo

As a student at Green River College, you automatically have access to online library resources at King County Library System, including the history databases below. 

Log in to KCLS Databases
  • Username to Log in: use GRC (all capital letters) + your student username. (The part before the @ in your GRC email address. Must be in lowercase letters)
    • Example: GRCsmith.jane.23
    • Wrong: GRCSmith.Jane.23. (must use lowercase for the username.)
  • PIN number: your pin is the last four characters of your log in. Example: e.23
History Databases
  • 19th Century US Newspapers
  • Daily Life through History
  • Historical Statistics of the US (may open in some browsers and not others)
  • New York Times Historical

Historical Newspapers

Using Historical Newspapers

Historical Newspapers in Library Databases 

Newspapers in the library's collections

Newspapers in Holman Library Databases 

More Recent Newspapers

ProQuest news and newspapers

  • Contains 350+ national and Washington State newspapers, 1959-2016.
  • You can limit your search results to a specific time period.
  • Newspaper articles from a specific time period can be primary sources (for example, newspaper articles that reported the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 or articles that reported the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal from the mid-1990s)

Recommended National News Websites

Recommended National News Websites


The New York Times

The Washington Post

The Los Angeles Times

Recommended National News Websites