American Studies

Monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans. Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800.

Hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies.

500,000 issues from more than 500 historical newspapers. Includes weeklies, dailies and historical significant newspapers. Key titles include the New York Herald, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, South Carolina City Gazette, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, San Jose Mercury News.

The largest online collection of 19th-century U.S. newspapers from the American West. Approx. 2,500 titles published in all 24 states west of the Mississippi River, plus a number of titles published east of the Mississippi for valuable political and economic context.

Brings together documents and collections between 1490 and 2007. Looks at varieties of slavery, its legacy, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. Also useful secondary sources; including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography.

A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 - c. 1820.

A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Subject areas education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Documents women's activism in public life by bringing together books, images, pamphlets, advice literature, training guides, documents (including primary documents), scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, links to other websites, and other ephemera.

Presents important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Covers experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community.

Search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Online database on African American history containing a number of primary sources.

A key newspaper of the African-American press. Easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. Unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. Educator resources and contextual materials, including Freedom on Film, relating instructive stories and discussion questions from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Documents the Civil Rights Movement of 1951-1968 by movement veterans. Articles, essays, poems, speeches, photos, interviews, personal stories, original publications, memos and reports and transcripts.

A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Includes slave narratives and other primary sources relating to African American history.

Primary source materials, digitised letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. The Civil Rights modules features records of NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, and federal records on the black freedom struggle. The World War II module includes formerly confidential reports of U.S. diplomats and military officers on planning, operations, intelligence, Axis war crimes, and refugees.

Brings together documents and collections between 1490 and 2007. Looks at varieties of slavery, its legacy, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. Also useful secondary sources; including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography.

Thousands of primary sources relating to different aspects of African American history.

Documents women's activism in public life by bringing together books, images, pamphlets, advice literature, training guides, documents (including primary documents), scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, links to other websites, and other ephemera.

Largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism with over 355,000 full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, and the definitive online criticism and reference library.

Thousands of documents and bibliographic records concerning Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals, the Caribbean and Atlantic world. Covers early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.

A multi-archive collection which captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. Covers various colonial frontiers of North America and the settlers of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.