History

Resource for researching every aspect of 17th and 18th-century America. Digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period.

Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

Digital facsimiles of works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, as well as pre-1701 works in European languages printed outside of Europe. Early European Books builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO). All subject areas.

Works published in the UK during the 18th century. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more on all subjects.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the women's rights movement. Coverage ranges from 1543-1945. Publications are from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.

Books, journals, pamphlets, essays and more that track the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth.

19th century primary source collections. Collections included materials on Asia and the West; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music and Literature; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture; European Literature; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; Photography; Religion, Reform, and Society; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; Women: Transnational Networks.

Primary source collection of letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives of immigrants to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

The collection includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from U.S. and Canadian individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Also includes journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It also includes some 300 biographies on contributors.

Includes the module American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971, which contains a variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration. The two major collections on the 20th Century are Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. In addition to these 20th Century records, American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 features a number of collections on American Indians in the 19th Century, with a focus on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. federal government, and Indian tribes.

Includes the module FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972, which contains records of the FBI and the Subversive Activities Control Board from 1945-1972, and the module Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930, which covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930.

Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th-century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Includes the module Confidential U.S. State Department central files, Africa and Middle East, 1960-1969, which contains a wide range of sensitive materials from U.S. diplomats in foreign countries: reports on political, military, and socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; important letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel; and reports and translations from foreign journals and newspapers. Among issues in the Africa and Middle East module is the pivotal 1964 Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela and leaders of the African National Congress.

Contains the module Slavery and the Law, which features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10states and the District of Columbia. The petitions document the realities of slavery at the most immediate local level and with amazing candor. Slavery and the Law also includes the important State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.

Modules include the Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents (focus on reproductive rights); Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990 (records of the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the women's Action Alliance); Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights; and Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps (records of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps).

Features collections on American workers and labor from the late 19th through 20th Century, and records of the Socialist Party of America. The module Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century consists of federal government records and has strong coverage of strikes and radical labor unions in the first half of the 20th Century. The Socialist Party of America Papers module documents the party's revolutionary efforts, as well as their involvement in several major reform movements of the 20th century. The Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO module consists of records sourced from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Catholic University of America, and the AFL-CIO.

Women and Social Movements provides access to primary resources around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.

A collection of periodical indexes created in the nineteenth century. Includes: Index to the New York Times (1863-1905); Index to Harper's Magazine (1880-1905); Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906); Stead's Index to Periodical Literature (the "British Poole's") (1890-1902); Index to the New York Daily Tribune 1875-1906; Descriptive catalog of the government publications of the U. S. (1774-1881).

Full text of major nineteenth century British magazine and periodicals.

Full-text of all issues from the satirical magazine, PUNCH, from 1841-2002

Back issues of the Springfield Republican from 1844 to 1946.

AP Newsroom contains breaking news, feature stories, photographs, graphics and audio clips produced by the AP’s network of award-winning journalists, who operate in more than 250 locations worldwide. Includes 170 years of news stories, 12 million historical and contemporary images and an extensive collection of audio clips.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals and books in all subject areas, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources. It now includes the contents of ArtStor.

HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.

Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1980.

Contains complete full text PDFs of all published and unpublished U.S. Congressional hearings.

Full text of US Congress publications including the complete set of the Congressional Record from 1789.

Includes the module FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972, which contains records of the FBI and the Subversive Activities Control Board from 1945-1972, and the module Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930, which covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930.

Full text of the complete set of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Parliamentary Papers collection including Hansard Parliamentary Debates. A major source of primary source materials on all aspects of British society and the British Empire.

The official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509).

This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

The standard source for the quantitative facts of American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history with statistical data coverage from colonial times to 2000.