History

Search over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. View digitized images of the pages from famous titles such as Vanity Fair, McClure's, and Ladies Home Journal.

Provides access to a digitized version of the famous nineteenth century Harper's Weekly magazine from the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Searchable text includes articles, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, and even advertisements.

The Nation Digital Archive is a fully searchable electronic version of the magazine's complete backfile, offering a 145-year archive of reporting opinion and criticism. The archive contains thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles dating back to Volume I, Number 1, from July 6, 1865.

The National Review Archive offers complete indexing, abstracting, and full text coverage for all issues of the journal back to the first issue in 1955 through the present.

The New Republic, founded in 1914, is one of the country's leading journals of opinion on politics and the arts. Current and past issues of the journal are now available together in a single, stand-alone online database. The database features award-winning writers and critics from many fields and from most political viewpoints.

Everyday Life and Women in American covers American social, cultural, and popular history with emphasis on women. Includes fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of primary source documents including monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides.

Women and Social Movements (Scholar's Edition) includes projects, full text documents, well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. Search by social movements, authors, sources, and more.

In the late 1800's, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world.
Published by: ProQuest

Access to some of the most significant and least-widely help periodicals produced during this time period.
Published by: Gale/Cengage Learning, Inc.

Provides cross-searchable platform for the following Alexander Street Press databases:

*North American Women's Letters and Diaries
*British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
*North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
*The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
*Black Thought and Culture
*Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society.

In addition to the premium Alexander Street Press content, users will find an in-depth index to nearly 4,000 collections of letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies available on the web in English from around the world dating from the 1550s to the present day. It also contains pointers to 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.
Published by: Alexander Street Press

Black Studies Center brings together scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases.

The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. here is extensive coverage of topics such as the African Coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); Spiritualism and Religion; Resistance and Revolts; the Underground Railroad; the Abolition Movement; Legislation; Education; the Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today.
Published by: Adam Matthew Digital

African American Archives provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, and is richly-detailed with narratives and quantitative data alike. The earliest materials in this collection come from Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation from the Danish West Indies (1672-1917).Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases)

270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Second collection in a new American Ethnic Newspapers series.
Published by: Readex

Visitors will find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom. This resource supports a wide range of students, from middle and high school to college, as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the ongoing Black Freedom Struggle. These reliable, easily discoverable materials may be used for homework assignments, personal inquiry, research papers and National History Day type-projects focused on African American history in the U.S.

Provides access to 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs from the civil war era. Particular care has been taken to index this material so it can be searched more thoroughly than ever.

Civil War Primary Source Documents captures various accounts of the Civil War as it was experienced on land and at sea. The collection also provides firsthand perspectives from hospitals and prison camps, and reactions to the War from the home front. Focusing on the War years, it also includes important contextual documents in the crucial years leading up to the War and after the fall of the Confederacy.

Provides access to a digitized version of the famous nineteenth century Harper's Weekly magazine from the Civil War and Reconstruction era through the Gilded Age. Searchable text includes articles, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, and even advertisements.
Alternate titles: Harp week; Harper's Weekly
Published by: HarpWeek, LLC.

The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. The only Atlanta newspaper that survived the Civil War, the Constitution established a national reputation for being progressive and became one of the few southern newspapers to support the Civil Rights Movement.
Alternate titles: Atlanta daily constitution
Published by: ProQuest

Provides access to genealogy resources, including census, birth, marriage, death and military records. The collection covers from 1300 to the present, with about 4000 databases included.

This free genealogy database provides links to ancestral file, census, US Social Security Death Index, and more. Search by names, locations, and/or birth, death, and marriage dates.
Published by: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Provides access to a variety of genealogy resources. Includes every extant U.S. federal census, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records, genealogical and local history serials, and more.

Provides free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.
Published by: USGenWeb Project

Indexes significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. Coverage from 1988 to present.

This unique reference product involves indexing, abstracting, and capturing on microfiche a large selection of U.S. government documents obtained from presidential libraries. These libraries receive declassified documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and others. As researchers visit these presidential libraries and request documents, the libraries photocopy and provide them to us for filming. The result is a collection of more than 75,000 documents, consisting of more than 465,000 pages, that has literally been built by researchers themselves for nearly two decades.

Through the Digital National Security Archive, the National Security Archive and Chadwyck-Healey at ProQuest Information and Learning Company have joined forces to produce the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 58,000 of the most important, declassified documents "totaling more than 450,000 pages” are included in the database.

The NTIS database indexes US government sponsored research, and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering and business related information. It is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from international government departments and other international organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries.

Full-text of more than 211 years worth of detailed information about Congress, including member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, financial data, and the full-text of key regulatory and statutory resources.

The Public Papers of the Presidents is the official publication of United States Presidents' selected speeches, press conferences, messages, statements and other documents arranged chronologically with appendix information containing list of nominations, daily schedule and more.

An easy-to-use online research service that provides access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.