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.

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.

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.

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.

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).