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America : History and Life 1910 - present America : History and Life indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. (See Historical Abstracts for non-North Am... View America : History and Life Online

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Afro-Americana Imprints (1535-1922) 1535 - 1922 African American Imprints contains over 12,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, which represent an unparalleled record of African American history, literature ... View Afro-Americana Imprints (1535-1922) Online
America : History and Life 1910 - present America : History and Life indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. (See Historical Abstracts for non-North Am... View America : History and Life Online
America and Great Britain: Diplomatic Relations, 1775-1815 1775-1815 Diplomatic and official governmental correspondence between North America and Great Britain during the entire of the American Revolution, including over 8,000 pages of primary source material docum... View America and Great Britain: Diplomatic Relations, 1775-1815 Online
American Founding Era Collection The American Founding Era Collection contains the annotated, full-text searchable set of the personal papers and manuscripts of the founders of the American Republic. The collection includes the pa... View American Founding Era Collection Online
American History in Video 1890s - 1980s At completion, American History in Video will include 2,000 total hours of streaming video content. More than half will be contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s. The early newsreels, in... View American History in Video Online
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congressâ€™s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, A... View American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Online
American National Biography Current This online version of the preeminent print edition consists of approximately 19,000 biographies of well-known deceased Americans (loosely defined as someone whose significant actions occurred duri... View American National Biography Online
Associated Press Collections Online (1848-2009) 1848-2009 The Associated Press Online Archive is a collection of news stories, in various stage of production, covering major local, regional, and national stories from 1848 to 2009. This fully-searchable da... View Associated Press Collections Online (1848-2009) Online
Black Studies In Video 20th - 21st Century Black Studies in Video, the latest addition to Alexander Street Press’s award-winning black studies portfolio, brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable... View Black Studies In Video Online
Black Thought and Culture 1700 - present This collection contains approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings from the past 250 years by over 1,000 American black leaders, including artists, politicians, religious leaders, athlete... View Black Thought and Culture Online
Early Canadiana Online 1600 - 1920 Early Canadiana Online is a large-scale collection of Canadian print materials comprising twelve collections of over three million pages. The parts include Early Canadian Periodicals, Early officia... View Early Canadiana Online Online
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Excellent annual bibliography edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Each volume includes over 5,000 bibliographic entries selected and annotated by leading scholars for books,... View Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) 1970 - present HAPI Online contains worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. It covers materi... View HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online
Historical Abstracts 1955 - present Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. (See America: History and Life for U.S. and Ca... View Historical Abstracts Online
Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition Online) Colonial period of U.S. - present The Millennial Edition is the definitive source of statistics and data about the United States and is a key resource for American history research from Colonial times to the present. This is an upd... View Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition Online) Online
History vault. Labor unions in the U.S., 1862-1974 : Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO 1862 - 1974 The ProQuest History Vault collection, Workers and Labor Unions, includes this module containing important documentation on the growth and transformation of the modern American labor movement. Four... View History vault. Labor unions in the U.S., 1862-1974 : Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO Online
History Vault: Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement (1958-1981) 1960 - 1980s ProQuest History Vault has expanded to include Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement, a module within the American Politics and Soci... View History Vault: Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement (1958-1981) Online
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... View JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Online
Making of America at Cornell 1850 - 1900 The Making of America (MOA) is a distributed digital library of important materials (journals and books) that document nineteenth century America and the history of the United States. MOA is a coll... View Making of America at Cornell Online
Making of America at Michigan 1850- 1900 The Making of America (MOA) is a distributed digital library of important materials (journals and books) that document nineteenth century America and the history of the United States. MOA is a coll... View Making of America at Michigan Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-2000) 1889 - 2000 Full text, fully searchable, of all issues of the Wall Street Journal for this time period. (Updated annually, present minus 25 years). View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-2000) Online
Sabin Americana, (1500 - 1926) 1500 - 1926 Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography (Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time), this collection contains works about the Ame... View Sabin Americana, (1500 - 1926) Online
Serial Set (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) 1789 - 2018 Reports and documents either produced or ordered by Congress, as well as presidential communications and treaty materials. Contains comprehensive and often detailed information on an extremely wide... View Serial Set (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) Online

Historical Newspapers Databases

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers 17th - 18th century "The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital co... View 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Online
19th Century U.S. Newspapers 1800 - 1899 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from more than 200 ... View 19th Century U.S. Newspapers Online
African American Newspapers (1827 - 1902) 1827 - 1902 This original source material—written by African-Americans for African-Americans - contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand repo... View African American Newspapers (1827 - 1902) Online
African American Newspapers (1827-1998) 1827 - 1998 Full text searchable newspaper covergage of approximately 270 U.S newspapers documenting the African American experience in Americafrom the early 19th century to the end of the 20th century. View African American Newspapers (1827-1998) Online
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 1825 - 1995 African-American Periodicals, 1825-1995, contains fully searchable content from 174 titles published by African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. These include academic titles, as well as c... View African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 Online
America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) 1690 - 1922 Series 1-7 offers more than 300 significant 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Series 1, 1690-1876: contains more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 s... View America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) Online
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection 1691 to 1877 The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1691 to 1877, arranged into five series. The collection represents over two centuries of ... View American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection Online
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society 1691 to 1877 The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1691 to 1877, arranged into five series. The collection represents over two centuries of ... View American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society Online
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 1789 - 1963 This database provides access to selected digitized historic newspaper pages from the years 1789-1963. The database is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership betwe... View Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Online
Ethnic Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 1799 - 1971 This is the third collection in Readex's American Ethnic Newspaper series following the African-American and Hispanic modules. Based on titles from the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, it include... View Ethnic Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 Online
Gale NewsVault 17th - 21st century Online newspaper portal: cross-searches Gale newspapers archives using a single interface, covering over 400 years of content, with over 10 million pages of full text images. Includes all online Ga... View Gale NewsVault Online
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 1808 - 1980 This collection of Spanish and English language newspapers stems from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. When complete, it will consist of 350 ... View Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 Online
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press mid-1800s - 1970s The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and S... View Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press Online
Lily, The (1849-1856) 1849 - 1856 The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). It was published in Seneca Falls, New York and priced at 50 cents a year... View Lily, The (1849-1856) Online
NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Wisconsin 1830-2000 Wisconsin historical newspapers archive from the 1800s - 2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers from around Wisconsin. (Updates vary) View NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Wisconsin Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) 1932 - 2003 The Atlanta Daily World is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975) 1910 - 1975 The Chicago Defender is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American hi... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) 1934 - 2005 The Los Angeles Sentinel is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of America... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) 1922 - 1993 The New York Amsterdam News is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of Amer... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) Online
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) 1911 - 2002 The Pittsburgh Courier is part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American ... View ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1994) 1849 - 1994 This version of The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily Tribune includes full-text and full-image articles since its beginning year. Digital reproductions of every page and every article from every i... View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1994) Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1994) 1881 - 1994 This version of The Los Angeles Times includes full-text and full-image articles since its beginning year. Digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue are available in do... View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1994) Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2014) 1851 - 2014, rolling 4 year embargo This version of The New York Times includes full-text and full-image articles since its beginning year. Digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue are available in downl... View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2014) Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962) 1841 - 1962 Full-text, fully-searchable, coverage of the New York Tribune, and its merged successor newspaper the New York Herald Tribune. (After the 1963-66 content is added this will be complete.) View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962) Online

Wisconsin Databases

Antiquities of Wisconsin, The 1855 The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase A. Lapham's most important published work, was the result of his interest in the Indian effigy mounds found on Wisconsin's Landscape. His research for the wor... View Antiquities of Wisconsin, The Online
Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids Dates vary The Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids presents archival finding aids prepared and contributed by the following institutions: The University of Wisconsin Archives and Records... View Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids Online
Dictionary of Wisconsin History Current Explore more than 1,600 people, places and events in Wisconsin history. View Dictionary of Wisconsin History Online
Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory 2002 - present Foundations in Wisconsin is a web-based searchable database of over 1100 active private, corporate, and community foundations based in Wisconsin. It contains brief abstracts with contact informatio... View Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory Online
History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life The History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life collection is based on a bibliography compiled as part of the National Preservation Project for Agricultural Literature. Items in the bibliograph... View History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life Online
NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Wisconsin 1830-2000 Wisconsin historical newspapers archive from the 1800s - 2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers from around Wisconsin. (Updates vary) View NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Wisconsin Online
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin 1820 - 1910 Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centu... View Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Online
Recollection Wisconsin Dates Vary Recollection Wisconsin is an expanding digital collection featuring thousands of historic photos, postcards, maps, letters, diaries, books, artifacts, oral histories and other digital collections f... View Recollection Wisconsin Online
Robert M. La Follette Papers 1879-1910 Congressman, Governor, and United States Senator, Robert Marion La Follette is one of the crucial figures of the Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century. This collection documents his e... View Robert M. La Follette Papers Online
State of Wisconsin Collection, The Dates vary The State of Wisconsin Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary materials: writings about the State of Wisconsin and unique or valuable materials that re... View State of Wisconsin Collection, The Online
Turning Points in Wisconsin History "Turning Points in Wisconsin History" was modeled on our successful American Journeys project (which you can see at www.americanjourneys.org) but focuses only on Wisconsin instead of the entire cou... View Turning Points in Wisconsin History Online
University of Wisconsin Collection, The Dates vary. (Updates vary) When does an aggregation of "stories" become a "history"? The history of the University of Wisconsin is far too colorful and texture-rich to be told in a single document. Within these collections y... View University of Wisconsin Collection, The Online
Wisconline Dane County Map of Dane County, Wisconsin View Wisconline Dane County Online
Wisconsin Digital Archives 2001 - present The Wisconsin Digital Archives is a growing collection of documents about the activities, functions, and policies of Wisconsin State Government. The collection contains documents from 2001 to curre... View Wisconsin Digital Archives Online
Wisconsin Electronic Reader 1835 - 1949 Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals, and tidbits from Wisconsin history. Many first hand accounts - profusely illustrated. (Updates vary) View Wisconsin Electronic Reader Online
Wisconsin Eye May 2007 - present Wisconsin Eye is a statewide multimedia public affairs network with a mission to present an independent, statewide view of civic life and public policy discussion. The network covers floor sessions... View Wisconsin Eye Online
Wisconsin Historical Society Archive-It Collection 2010 - present The Wisconsin Historical Society Archive-It collection includes archived versions of Wisconsin state, county, and municipal government web sites, as well as archived versions of web sites from the ... View Wisconsin Historical Society Archive-It Collection Online
Wisconsin Historical Society Finding Aids 1848 - Archival finding aids provide more detail about collections than do catalog records, and often include lists of folder titles as well as searchable description of a collection and its contents. The... View Wisconsin Historical Society Finding Aids Online
Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Digital Collections 1950 - present The digital collections of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau contain documents published by the legislature and legislative agencies (including the Legislative Reference Bureau, Legislativ... View Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Digital Collections Online
Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles (WLHBA) Late 19th - Early 20th centuries WLHBA consists of image files of historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society, mainly between 1860-1940. It is searchable by headline, subject, n... View Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles (WLHBA) Online
Wisconsin Pioneer Experience: A digital collection of original sources documenting 19th-century Wisc Dates vary The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The proje... View Wisconsin Pioneer Experience: A digital collection of original sources documenting 19th-century Wisc Online
WisStat 1960 - present GetFacts, formerly WISSTAT, contains thousands of demographic and economic variables for the state of Wisconsin, its counties and smaller communitites. The sources of the data include the U.S. Cens... View WisStat Online

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American Ancestors (Historical Library Only) 18th century - present Offers full-text access to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register from 1847 to 1994, genealogies, vital records of many New England towns, military records, and church records. (Updat... View American Ancestors (Historical Library Only) Online
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection 1691 to 1877 The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1691 to 1877, arranged into five series. The collection represents over two centuries of ... View American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection Online
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society 1691 to 1877 The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1691 to 1877, arranged into five series. The collection represents over two centuries of ... View American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society Online
American Indian Experience "Pre-contact" - present The American Indian Experience is a portal and full-text online library of more than 150 titles; hundreds of primary documents and images, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and capti... View American Indian Experience Online
American Indian Law Collection (HeinOnline) 1700s - current Full-text legal materials by and about Native Americans. Includes federal law relating to tribes, such as relevant sections of the US Code and CFR, some legislative history, and administrative deci... View American Indian Law Collection (HeinOnline) Online
American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement 1000 AD - 1844 AD American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD 1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies ... View American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement Online
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922 1820 - 1922 This is a fully searchable resource of over 25,000 pamphlets and other short works from the collections of the New York Historical Society spanning the varied history of the United States from the ... View American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922 Online
American Periodicals 1740 - 1940 American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the middle of the 20th century. Titles ran... View American Periodicals Online
American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam: Global Perspectives, 1946-1975 1946 - 1975 Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts. This collection of primary so... View American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam: Global Perspectives, 1946-1975 Online
American Rhetoric: the Power of Oratory in the United States This resource is dedicated to public communication and rhetoric of all kinds and includes a speech bank, movie speeches, audio figures of speech, the top 100 American political speeches of the 20th... View American Rhetoric: the Power of Oratory in the United States Online
American West, 1718-1968 1718 - 1968 Based on sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, this resource contains manuscript materials, broadsides, maps, photographs, and rare printed items documenting the his... View American West, 1718-1968 Online
Biographical directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present This Directory provides brief biographical information, including party affiliation, for all members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives from the Continental Congress to the pr... View Biographical directory of the United States Congress Online
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1863 1830 - 1865 This database contains approximately 15,000 articles and documents written by Black abolitionists during the antebellum period in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The contents include corresp... View Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1863 Online
Black Freedom The ProQuest History Vault offers researchers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the m... View Black Freedom Online
Bloomberg Businessweek Archive 1929 - 2000 Bloomberg Businessweek Archive is a complete digital version of the Businessweek backfile. Coverage starts at the magazine’s first issue in 1929 through December of 2000. Bloomberg Businessweek has... View Bloomberg Businessweek Archive Online
Book History Online 1973 - present An international bibliography in the field of book and library history, BHO "provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a historical perspective. Included are monogr... View Book History Online Online
C-Span Video Library 1987 - present Videos and transcripts of C-Span programs; includes public affairs programming, Congressional proceedings, news conferences, BookTV non-fiction author talks and interviews, and more. Contains every... View C-Span Video Library Online
Chicano Database 1967 - This is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano reference. It identifies, in one place, all types o... View Chicano Database Online
Civil War Collection This database collection of publications, documents, and archival materials about the Civil War experience is designed to be wide-ranging and eclectic. It is divided into thematic and geographic su... View Civil War Collection Online
Colonial America 1650-1780s Colonial America is a five-module resource (released over five years) featuring all 1,450 files of the CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK. The collection consists of the original correspondenc... View Colonial America Online
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 1824-1961 The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970 consists of the most important internal papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices (FCO). These ra... View Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 Online
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets 1930s - present Provides simple and refined searching of the Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data, and others. Datasets include public-domain and licensed information. Users can s... View Data-Planet Statistical Datasets Online
Digital Archaeological Record The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) is an international digital repository for the digital records of archaeological investigations. tDAR’s use, development, and maintenance are governed by Di... View Digital Archaeological Record Online
Digital National Security Archive 1945 - present The DNSA includes over 100,000 declassified primary documents relating to US foreign policy. It is separated into 42 collections consisting of over compiled and organized by top scholars and expert... View Digital National Security Archive Online
Digital Public Library of America Ancient times to the present The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United S... View Digital Public Library of America Online
Directory of History Dissertations (American Historical Association) 1882 - present The Directory of History Dissertations contains more than 21,000 dissertations that have been completed or are currently -in progress in the United States and Canada since 1882. This directory is t... View Directory of History Dissertations (American Historical Association) Online
Discovering American Women's History Online 1600s to the present This database provides access to hundreds of digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. The database... View Discovering American Women's History Online Online
Documenting the American South 1608 - 2000 Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Cu... View Documenting the American South Online
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) 19th century - present DRAM is an online music database offering on-demand, streaming access to an extensive and ever-growing catalog. A primary focus of the collection is the preservation and dissemination of hard-to-fi... View DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) Online
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) 1639-1800 This collection contains digital editions of all titles in the Evans microform editions; more than 36,000 items and over 2,400,000 images, all with searchable OCR-created ASCII text. Both the digit... View Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Online
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment 1500s-1860 Early Encounters in North America is a collection of primary texts that provide evidence of encounters between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans in the New World. The texts focus on illustr... View Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment Online
Empire Online 1492 to 1969 Empire Online spans five centuries, charting the rise and fall of empires around the world. It provides exploration of colonial history, politics, culture, and society. Key features include: tens o... View Empire Online Online
Encyclopedia of Chicago The Encyclopedia of Chicago includes a vast collection of information about the history of the city. Thousands of historical resources-including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers-re... View Encyclopedia of Chicago Online
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive late 1800s - 2000 An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through 2000. ... View Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Online
Ethnic NewsWatch 1960 - present Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating fr... View Ethnic NewsWatch Online
European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750 1493 - 1750 European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750 is a bibliographic database created from the six volume bibliography European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the A... View European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750 Online
Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939 (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) 1789 - 1939 Collection of publications from the Executive Branch of the federal government listed in the 1909 Checklist created by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents as a summary of all publications issues b... View Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939 (U.S.) (ProQuest Congressional) Online
First World War 1910-1925 The First World War Portal consists of three modules each representing different presentations of the First World War, using a vast array of primary source materials drawn from several archives and... View First World War Online
Fold3 (Historical Library Only) 18th century to present Historical primary documents featuring U.S. city directories, naturalization records, and Revolutionary War Pensions. Collections include: History and Genealogy Archives, African American Archives,... View Fold3 (Historical Library Only) Online
Fortune Magazine Archive 1930 - 2000 Fortune Magazine Archive provides a cover-to-cover format of that long running magazine from February 1930 through December 2000. Fortune Magazine was published monthly by Time Inc., the magazine s... View Fortune Magazine Archive Online
German-Americana Collection of the Max Kade Institute: A Searchable Database This database contains bibliographic records detailing 18th–early 20th century imprints in the German language printed in North America, as well as monographs, articles, papers, genealogical histor... View German-Americana Collection of the Max Kade Institute: A Searchable Database Online
Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia A broad overview of German-American relations, spanning five centuries of the influence and encounters of German-speaking people with South and North America. It includes hundreds of articles by in... View Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia Online
Gilded Age, The 1865-1902 The Gilded Age collection contains primary documents and scholarly commentary covering U.S. history from 1865-1902. It includes over 50,000 pages of fully searchable text and associated audio and v... View Gilded Age, The Online
Great Lakes Maritime History Project The Great Lakes Maritime History Project contains resources on Wisconsin’s maritime history from the Milwaukee Public Library/Wisconsin Marine Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Society, Univ... View Great Lakes Maritime History Project Online
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) 1970 - present HAPI Online contains worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. It covers materi... View HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online
Harper's Magazine Archive 1850 - present Harper's Magazine Archive provides searchable, full-text access to every issue of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the present. Harper's Magazine is a monthly general-interest magazine covering liter... View Harper's Magazine Archive Online
HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857 - 1865 HarpWeek is the searchable electronic version of the Civil War years of Harper's Weekly, one of the most important American periodicals of the nineteenth century. Includes images of all the pages, ... View HarpWeek: the Civil War Era Online
Hearings (ProQuest Congressional) 1824 - 2018 Published and unpublished hearings from U.S. Congressional committee hearings proceedings. All hearings contain the full transcripts of the proceedings, including all oral statements, committee que... View Hearings (ProQuest Congressional) Online
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library 1970 - present The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL) is a collaboration between New York University Libraries and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that provides a digital li... View Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library Online
HeritageQuest Online 1790 - 2009 HeritageQuest Online combines searchable text and images of all federal censuses (1790-1930), Revolutionary War records, African-American history, genealogy and local history monographs, and portio... View HeritageQuest Online Online
History Guide Ancient World - 20th Century The History Guide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history. Current emphasis is Anglo-American history, but it is expanding to include other aspects of worl... View History Guide Online
History of Supreme Court Nominations (HeinOnline) 1789 - Present This library features the complete print series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee... View History of Supreme Court Nominations (HeinOnline) Online
Indigenous Peoples: North America Enabling exploration of the political, social, and cultural history of native peoples from the sixteenth century well into the twentieth century, Indigenous Peoples: North America illustrates the f... View Indigenous Peoples: North America Online
JTA Jewish & Israel News (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 1923 - present JTA Jewish & Israel News is a searchable database chronicling modern Jewish history, as seen through the eyes of journalists. It consists of articles published or disseminated by the JTA (Jewish Te... View JTA Jewish & Israel News (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Online
LGBT Thought and Culture LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The coll... View LGBT Thought and Culture Online
Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II and III, The 1450 - 1914 This wide-ranging collection looks at history through the lens of wealth and trade with a focus on economics, political science, history, philosophy, sociology, and special collections on banking, ... View Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II and III, The Online
Moving Image Archive This is Internet Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length ... View Moving Image Archive Online
New Yorker Archive 1925 - present The New Yorker Archive provides access to every page of The New Yorker going back to its first issue in 1925. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting on national and internation... View New Yorker Archive Online
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories 1840 - View North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories Online
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Colonial Times - 1950 A collection of published and unpublished women's diaries and correspondence, drawn from more than 1,000 1,300 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conferenc... View North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Online
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Geography The Geography module from Oxford Bibliographies Inline (OBO) provides a means to navigate through the vast amounts of books, publications, and other materials from across the discipline from the la... View Oxford Bibliographies Online: Geography Online
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women and World History Pre-history to the 2000s Contains some 650 biographies of women and 600 topical entries covering geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies. Scope is worldwide and from pre-his... View Oxford Encyclopedia of Women and World History Online
Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, The 1830 - 1880 Digital edition of Grant's papers, based on the original letterpress edition edited by John Y. Simon. Searchable access to the content of the original thirty-one print volumes, including all editor... View Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, The Online
Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) With more than 1,500 pages of information, PDBA offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections... View Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) Online
Popular Culture in Britain and America 1950-1975 Original primary sources on society, music, politics, fashion and youth culture from 1950 to 1975. Photos, video, music, fanzines, magazines, press kits, ads and other archival material from the ti... View Popular Culture in Britain and America Online
Project Muse Project Muse provides full text access to more than 300 humanities and social science journals from various publishers. Disciplines covered include art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, his... View Project Muse Online
ProQuest Civil War Era 1840 - 1865 Newspaper and pamphlet sources for access to research on Civil War era American history. View ProQuest Civil War Era Online
ProQuest Congressional 1789 - present Comprehensive ongoing collection of U.S. federal government publications from the late 18th century to the present. Includes acts (laws), bills and resolutions, committee reports and documents, hea... View ProQuest Congressional Online
ProQuest Legislative Insight 1789 - 2018 Legislative Insight is comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of the Public Law itself, all ver... View ProQuest Legislative Insight Online
ProQuest Regulatory Insight 1935 - 2018 As a companion to ProQuest Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories organized by federal statute and executive order, as well as Federal Register and... View ProQuest Regulatory Insight Online
Robert M. La Follette Papers 1879-1910 Congressman, Governor, and United States Senator, Robert Marion La Follette is one of the crucial figures of the Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century. This collection documents his e... View Robert M. La Follette Papers Online
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects i... View Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 Online
Slavery & Anti-Slavery : A Transnational Archive. Part I, Debates over Slavery and Abolition 1490 - 1896 Debates over Slavery and Abolition (Part I of Slavery and Anti-Slavery), contains 7,277 books and pamphlets, more than eighty newspaper and periodical titles, and eighteen major manuscript collecti... View Slavery & Anti-Slavery : A Transnational Archive. Part I, Debates over Slavery and Abolition Online
U.S. Declassified Documents Online 1945 - 1970s The US Declassified Documents includes documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act from the period immediately after World War II through the 1970's. Nearly every major foreign ... View U.S. Declassified Documents Online Online
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War 1859 - 1890 This is a "virtual archive" of the Civil War in two Virginia counties. Included are maps, photographs, drawings, diaries and other personal accounts, newspapers, government records, and other prima... View Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Online
Vietnam War Bibliography View Vietnam War Bibliography Online
Witchcraft in Salem Village 1692 - 1700, Dates Vary This site introduces the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and is designed to provide accurate general information about these events, as well as information on other aspects of the history of Danvers (f... View Witchcraft in Salem Village Online
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 - 2000 Women and Social Movements is divided into document projects that interpret and present materials, many of which are not otherwise available online, in U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Each d... View Women and Social Movements in the United States Online

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