"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...

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 ...

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...

Searchable archive of U.S. newspapers documenting the African American experience from the early 19th century to the end of the 20th century.

Newspapers and magazines by and about African Americans from 1825-1995.

U.S. newspapers published between 1690 and 1922.

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 ...

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 ...

American Indian Newspapers presents the publications of a range of communities, covering periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, Californi...

Digitized newspapers produced by people who have been incarcerated in the United States.

Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more.

Full-text searchable newspaper database that includes Catholic publications from around the United States.

U.S. newspapers from 1789-1963.

Collection of newspapers published in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama between 1861-1865.

Collection of local, regional, and national newspapers promoting white nationalism from Klan organizations and others, as well as those opposed published by ethnic, Catholic, and Jewish organizations.

Searchable collection of newspapers in ten languages published in the U.S., primarly focused on Czechs, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Polish, and Slovak communities.

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...

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 ...

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...

Wisconsin historical newspapers archive from the 1800s - 2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers from around Wisconsin.

Digital newspaper archive of Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003) and Atlanta World (1931-1932).

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...

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...

Digital newspaper archive of the Communist Party USA, published from 1919 to 2013, available in downloadable PDF files.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Full-text, fully-searchable, coverage of the New York Tribune, and its merged successor newspaper the New York Herald Tribune, from 1841 to 1962.

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 ...

Digital newspaper archive of every page and every article from every issue published from 1865 to 1922, available in downloadable PDF files.

Digital newspaper archive of the "Afro-American", one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast, with content published from 1893 to 1988.

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...

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...

Explore more than 1,600 people, places and events in Wisconsin history.

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...

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...

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...

Archival collection on societal improvements of the Progressive Movement (1872-1934): women’s right to vote, Standard Oil monopoly, law enforcement reforms, Teapot Dome, regulation of food and drugs, and more.

Correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries and photographs of leading members of the Progressive movement (1875-1945): John R. Commons, Charles R. Van Hise, Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross and Charles McCarthy.

Wisconsin historical newspapers archive from the 1800s - 2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers from around Wisconsin.

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Map of Dane County, Wisconsin

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...

Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals, and tidbits from Wisconsin history. Many first hand accounts - profusely illustrated. (Updates vary)

Statewide public affairs broadcasting network, providing video coverage of the Wisconsin State Legislature and Supreme Court as well as public policy video series.

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 ...

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...

The digital collections of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau contain documents published by the legislature and legislative agencies (including the Legislative Reference Bureau, Legislativ...

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...

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...

Journal articles and reports covering modern aviation, aeronautics and space sciences during the second half of the 20th century, collected and translated by a U.S. government organization.

Collection of primary source materials presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focused on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas.

Collection of printed works providing insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond. Capturing voices of, by, for, and about African Americans.

Archive of documents about African American life from post-Civil War years to the beginning of Jim Crow. Includes works of individuals and organizations, works of fiction, poetry and drama.

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.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Archive of correspondence of members of the Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions relating to their work among American Indians from 1833 to 1893.

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...

Digital archive of materials documents interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact through the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.

FBI documentation on the evolution of American Indian Movement (AIM) as an organization of social protest, including the 1973 Wounded Knee Stand-off.

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 ...

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 ...

Digitized images of American magazines and journals published in the United States from 1740-1940.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.

News articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world, covering race relations in the United States that were collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

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...

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...

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...

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...

Primary sources from the African-American struggle for freedom and equality from 1790 to the contemporary period.

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...

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...

Video and transcripts of C-Span programming since 1987.

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...

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...

Translated reports, publications, news broadcasts covering facets of the Cold War, focusing on news outlets in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Vietnam and more.

Manuscript materials of the Colonial Office files; contains original correspondence of the North American and Caribbean colonial governments with the British government, covering the period 1606 to 1822.

Archive of journal articles, government publications, newspapers, and transcribed television and radio broadcasts from around the world documenting the history and impact of computer science between 1957 and 1995.

Collection of newspapers published in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama between 1861-1865.

Official British government correspondence and internal papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices (FCO) concerning the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean from 1824 to 1961.

Statistical data in a wide range of subject areas, with tools for searching, analyzing and visualizing.

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...

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...

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...

Searchable directory of History dissertations that have been completed or are in progress in the United States and Canada since 1873.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Core archive of trade magazines in the fields of film, music, broadcasting, and theater through 2000.

Full text sources covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America.

Newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press, from Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, multi-ethnic communities.

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...

Archive of correspondence of the American Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions relating to their Philippines Mission during the period of 1898 to 1910.

Archive of correspondence of the American Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions relating to their Thailand Mission during the period of 1840 to 1910.

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...

Digitized historical documents from the life and work of Fanny Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist and civil rights leader.

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...

Historical primary documents featuring U.S. city directories, naturalization records, and Revolutionary War Pensions. Collections include: History and Genealogy Archives, African American Archives,...

Collection of archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us.

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...

FOIA files, memcons and telcons from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library documenting the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and its implications for U.S.-German relations.

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...

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...

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...

Comprised of publications related to Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s. Topics range from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities.

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...

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, ...

Published and unpublished hearings from U.S. Congressional committee hearings proceedings.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Archival collection on societal improvements of the Progressive Movement (1872-1934): women’s right to vote, Standard Oil monopoly, law enforcement reforms, Teapot Dome, regulation of food and drugs, and more.

Correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries and photographs of leading members of the Progressive movement (1875-1945): John R. Commons, Charles R. Van Hise, Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross and Charles McCarthy.

Archive of legal, political, and diplomatic documents about trade with American Indian tribes in the Southeastern United States, from 1763 to 1901.

Full-text legal materials by and about indigenous peoples of the United States, including treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.

Online archive of primary source materials documenting the political, social, and cultural history of indigenous peoples of North America, 16th to 20th century.

Archives of a social organization formed to strengthen international understanding and friendship among the women of Asia, the Pacific and the USA.

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...

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...

Research collection documenting history of the dynamics of Western trade, 1500 to the early 20th century. Covers historical underpinnings supporting the study of economics and European imperialism.

Documents related to the government investigation into the consequences of the Dawes Act of 1887 including the Meriam Report, which declared that allotment had been a disaster for Native American communities.

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 ...

Streaming audio of over 56,000 albums of American roots music and pre-20th century American popular music. Designed as an audio history of America’s past, songs are indexed by major events.

Collection drawn from the FBI Headquarters Library documents the surveillance of noncitizens and national security during World War II and the early postwar period. Includes the Custodial Detention Index (CDI).

Complete digitized collection of records and documents from Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendents, from 1813 to 1880.

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...

Collection of letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives of immigrants to America and Canada between 1800 and 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...

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global reaction to the world Arms Race.

Journal articles and reports covering the development and use of nuclear energy during the second half of the 20th century, collected and translated by a U.S. government organization.

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...

Reference tool of authoritative research guides supporting the field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Online encyclopedia of topics related to women and gender studies; covers geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and biographies, pre-history to the 2000s.

Digital edition of Grant's papers, based on the original letterpress edition edited by John Y. Simon, including all editorial annotations, introductory essays, and appendices.

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...

Primary source collection of materials by and about both far-right and radical left political groups.

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...

Journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage in art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, history, ethnic and cultural studies, music, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology and women's studies.

Newspaper and pamphlet sources for access to research on Civil War era American history.

Collection of U.S. federal government publications including acts (laws), bills and resolutions, committee reports and documents, hearings testimony, and selected legislative histories.

Collection of archival records document the activities and priorities of Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor from the 1880s through World War I and Gompers's death in 1924.

Digitized primary source materials from Colonial America and the Early Republic: personal papers, diaries, and governmental records pertaining to the Revolutionary War and the French and Indian War.

Digitized collection of primary source materials documenting how industrial enterprises used slave labor in the Old South.

A complete collection of publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking, useful for compiling a federal legislative history.

U.S. federal administrative law histories organized by federal statute and executive order, as well as Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations content.

Archive of documents related to the Public Housing Administration's policies and procedures on public financing of housing in relation race and civil rights.

Digital archive of records from the National Domestic Workers Union (U.S.) contains legal documents, minutes, printed material and voluminous correspondence.

Materials from the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries documents responses to the challenges of overcoming prejudice, segregation and racial tensions in the United States.

Searchable, multimedia collection supporting the study of important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the 21st century.

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...

Primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.

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...

Archival collection documenting the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of slavery, and the dynamics of emancipation.

Access to millions of 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections, including images and data from across 19 museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Archive of records of the U.S. Operations Mission established to intervene in Vietnam.

Collection of previously classified federal records (1945 to present) sourced from all of the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies.

Declassified U.S. government documents from the U.S. intelligence community in East Asia and Southeast Asia during the Cold War (1945-1991).

Declassified U.S. government documents concerning the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa.

Documents and records pertaining to the use of Federal troops and the Arkansas National Guard in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957-1958.

Archive of materials of Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG) to process, monitor, and evaluate American military aid to French forces fighting in Southeast Asia.

Archive of U.S. State Department Office documents and files related to diplomatic, political and economic issues in Southeast Asia, from 1944-1958.

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...

Bibliography of books and articles about the Vietnam War.

Archive of Ferrar Papers, supporting study of English colonial history, the Virginia colony's economic development and settlement from the perspective of the Virginia Company of London (1606-24).

Correspondence related to Indian Affairs from the archives of the War Department, dating from 1800 and 1824.

Resource supporting the study of history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000, featuring document projects with primary sources, audio-video, images, teaching tools.

Archive from the Committee of Correspondence, a U.S. women's organization that advocated for women’s involvement in foreign policy and in the post war global governance system in the period after WWII.

Materials from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library document the tenures and work of the Special Assistant to the President for Women, from 1974 to 1977.

Archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources.

This collection covers the struggle for voting rights for women in the U.S., and includes newspapers covering the temperance and women's rights movements, as well as an anti-suffrage paper.