American Historical Resources
- The African-American Mosaic This link opens in a new windowOnline database on African American history containing a number of primary sources.
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new windowSearch more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- America: History & Life with full text This link opens in a new windowAn index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, providing full text access to articles. 1,700 journals from 1964 to present with citations and links to book and media reviews.
- American Periodicals This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. Collections from American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research (APCRL).
- Black Freedom Struggle in the United States This link opens in a new windowProvides access to a collection focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new windowConsists of declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.
- Early American Newspapers, Series 15, 1822-1879: Immigrant Communities This link opens in a new windowDesigned to provide a window into this uniquely American story. Series 15 contains 160 immigrant papers, many of which are considered the most important 19th-century publications of this genre. Complementing these and providing valuable context are traditional, general-interest newspapers published contemporaneously in those same cities or regions.
- Early American Newspapers 1801-1900 This link opens in a new window500,000 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.
- Early Americas Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 - c. 1820.
- History Vault Includes multiple subcollections in broad subject areas like Civil Rights; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society and much more This link opens in a new windowProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.
- JCB's Archive of Early American Images This link opens in a new window
A collection of 50,000 rare books (printed before c. 1825), manuscripts, and 16,000 reference books and secondary sources (printed after c. 1825) of which 90% is accessible online. Extensive holdings in the literature of European exploration and travel in the Western Hemisphere, from the first Latin edition of the Columbus letter of 1493, through nearly all of the contemporary narratives of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English discovery, exploration, and settlement. These primary materials are supported by a large bibliographical reference collection.
- Nation Digital Archive This link opens in a new window150-year archive (1865-present) of reporting opinion and criticism. Primary source material including thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles in America and the world.
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest This link opens in a new windowExplores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. Contains colour digital images of archival material sourced from key libraries and organisations in Britain and America. Includes material from the Mass Observation Archive. Search archive at the Mass Observation online
- Race Relations in America This link opens in a new windowDocumenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Race Relations Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.
- Twentieth Century American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new windowIncludes the following titles: The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana; 1923-1988), The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio; 1923-1991), The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon; 1923-1987.
- United States Census Bureau This link opens in a new window
Collections of data about the American population and economy. Data directly collected through censuses and surveys. Primary sources for additional data are federal, state, and local governments, and some commercial entities.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowThe entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to present. Subjects include textiles and dress, fashion history, popular culture, gender studies, photography and graphic design, marketing and advertising.
- Washington Post Archive 1877-2005 This link opens in a new windowNews articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more from 1877 to 2001.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowDocuments 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.