Contains over 150,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed material documenting North American history and culture from 1639 to 1800, as listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans.
Searchable collection of 730 historical American newspapers published between 1690 and 1876, including national, regional and local publications.
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.
Spanning 1490–2007, this resource brigns together both primary and secondary materials on slavery, abolition, and social justice from UK and North American archives. Includes manuscripts, maps, essays, and visual sources covering the Atlantic slave trade, resistance movements, abolition campaigns, and the legacies of slavery across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Islamic world.
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.
A collection of primary documents, scholarly essays, and reviews exploring the history of women’s activism in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Covers topics such as abolition, suffrage, labour, civil rights, and feminism. Includes writings by and about women, as well as records of grassroots and national organisations.
A vast archive of material drawn from hundreds of international and local organizations, documenting important aspects of LGBTQ life from 1940 onwards. Documents include: records and materials produced by LGBTQ rights groups, government briefings, reports and policy statements, surveys and election questionnaires, international news and magazine articles, photographs, interviews and more.
Search more than 270 African American newspapers from over 35 states, published during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes rarer titles from the black presses of smaller US cities and issues of the earliest black newspapers.
A primary source collection documenting the African American civil rights movement in the 20th century. Includes NAACP papers, federal government records, organizational archives, and personal papers.
Brings together multiple databases:
Online database on African American history containing a number of primary sources.
Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history
Full-text archive of The Chicago Defender from 1909 to 1975, a key African American newspaper. Includes news articles, editorials, and cultural commentary, offering insight into 20th-century U.S. history, civil rights, and urban African American life.
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.
Search across a wide range of archival collections focused on 19th and 20th century US history, containing digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials. Includes sub-collections on the Black Freedom Movement, Southern Life and Slavery, Women's Rights, International Relations, American Politics and Society, and labour unions, workers, and progressive and radical politics.
Spanning 1490–2007, this resource brigns together both primary and secondary materials on slavery, abolition, and social justice from UK and North American archives. Includes manuscripts, maps, essays, and visual sources covering the Atlantic slave trade, resistance movements, abolition campaigns, and the legacies of slavery across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Islamic world.
Archival collection of plantation records from 1775 to 1915, documenting economic, social, and personal aspects of life in the American South. Includes business records and personal papers from major Southern archives, with a focus on slavery, African American history, and Southern society.
Thousands of primary sources relating to different aspects of African American history.
A collection of primary documents, scholarly essays, and reviews exploring the history of women’s activism in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Covers topics such as abolition, suffrage, labour, civil rights, and feminism. Includes writings by and about women, as well as records of grassroots and national organisations.
An cross-searchable full-text database of poetry, prose, and drama in English, dating back to the 8th century. Includes literary criticism, author biographies, reference works, and academic journals. Subjects: literary studies, linguistics, and cultural history.
A digital thematic research collection of art, music and literary periodicals published between 1848, the year of the European Revolutions, and 1923 – a functional boundary for works presumed to be in the public domain.
A database of primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, integrating two archives: ‘Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers’ and ‘The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739.’ The collections relate to the British governance of early settlements, encounters with Native Americans, piracy, the slave trade, and conflicts with the Spanish and French.
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.