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History Resources

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America's Historical Imprints
Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents, and rare printed materials provide insights into American history, literature, culture, and daily life from colonial times to the 19th century.
Includes: African History and Culture, 1540-1921: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia; The American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922: From the American Antiquarian Society; Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819.
America: History and Life with Full Text
Access to journals and resources on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, including advanced time-period search and open access journal indexing.
American Slavery Collection
Coverage: 1820-1922
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Digital collection of the American Antiquarian Society’s holdings of slavery and abolition materials consisting of more than 3,500 works published from 1820 to 1922. Collection includes books, pamphlets, graphic materials, ephemera and a large number of invaluable Southern imprints.
Digital National Security Archive
Search a collection of declassified U.S. government documents, meticulously curated and indexed, covering critical events in U.S. foreign policy, intelligence, and national security from 1945 to the present.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
A comprehensive bibliographic guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750, European Views of the Americas covers the history of European exploration as well as European portrayals of Native Americans. Includes texts in English, German, French, Spanish, Polish and Scandinavian.
Coverage: 1493-1750
PRISMA Database
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
This is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese, and English language content. Articles in PRISMA examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies—from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators to politics and society to Hispanic theatre. Coverage of subject areas is comprehensive and includes Anthropology, Business & Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology.

United States

American History in Video
Streaming video documentaries and newsreel footage of key historical events in American history from sources such as PBS, A&E, California Newsreel, and The History Channel.
American National Biography Online
Biographies of influential Americans whose lives have shaped the nation, featuring images from the National Portrait Gallery and linked resources.
Maximum concurrent users: 5
Civil War Collection
Search primary sources from 1855-1869, featuring articles on international trade, foreign perspectives on the U.S. during the Civil War, diverse views on industries, slavery, and pre- and post-war attitudes, along with detailed reports on troop movements.
Collection includes:
- Part I: A Newspaper Perspective: Contains the full text of major articles from issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
- Part II: The Soldiers’ Perspective: Provides an in-depth look at the day-to-day actions of the troops themselves primarily in the form of regimental histories.
- Part III: The Generals’ Perspective: These volumes allow a look into the way the battles within the war were fought. Here the emphasis is on strategies and tactics as planned and executed by the commanding officers, with a longer-term view as opposed to daily concerns.
- Part IV: A Midwestern Perspective: This collection consists of seven newspapers published in Indiana between 1855 and 1869. Thus, it provides pre-and post-Civil War information in addition to coverage of the war itself.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Digital library of primary and secondary sources from libraries, archives, and museums across America.
Historical Statistics of the United States - Millennial Edition
Coverage: Colonial times to 2000
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
This resource includes a variety of means to search and navigate the vast amount of data in the Historical Statistics. Users will be able to graph individual tables or to combine data from different tables into "custom tables" and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications. This is a seminal resource for American History.
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
Covers key events, trends and events in America from 1960 to 1974 through letters, diaries, oral histories, and newsreel footage.
Alternate titles: Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives
Social Explorer
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Social Explorer provides access to census demographic information about the United States from 1790 to present. Users can create maps and reports to visualize and analyze demography and social change throughout history. Datasets are available at a variety of geographic levels, including neighborhoods, counties, and states. A collection of interactive demographic maps can be viewed, queried, and exported as images or PowerPoint presentations.

America’s Historical Newspapers
America’s Historical Newspapers includes thousands of titles from all 50 states chronicling the evolution of American culture and society through eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries, and much more.
AHN searches “Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876” | “Hispanic American Newspapers” | “Early American Newspapers, Series 1: From Colonies to Nation” | “Early American Newspapers, Series 18: Racial Awakening in the Northeast” | “Early American Newspapers,
Early American Newspapers, Series I
Coverage: 1690-1876
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 710 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and provides unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods. Additionally, EAN, Series I is cross-searchable with other Archive of Americana® collections held by ASU Library.
Alternate titles: America’s Historical Newspapers-Early American Newspapers Series I
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch offers articles from minority presses, including African American, Caribbean, Arab, Asian, European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native American sources, with coverage starting from 1990.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources)
Searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century.
Pennsylvania Gazette: 1728-1800
Full-text collection covers significant events from early colonial expansion (1728) through the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, and Washington’s presidency, providing vital insights into U.S. history up to 1800.
Proquest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant
Full-text access to the oldest continuously published U.S. newspaper covering local, regional, and national news, politics, business, and culture from 1764 to 1922. Hartford, Connecticut.
Researchers can explore articles, editorials, obituaries, and historical photos, maps, and advertisements.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Complete digital archive of the Los Angeles Times (1881–2021), with full-page reproductions of every issue, including news, editorials, obituaries, announcements, photos, maps, and ads.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Atlanta Constitution
Full-text access to a historical newspaper from Atlanta, Georgia, with full-page images and searchable text from 1868 to 1942, covering local, regional, and national news, politics, business, and culture.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
Full-text access to the historical newspaper archives, covering local, national, and international news, politics, business, and culture from 1851 to 2021.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post
Full-text access to digital reproductions of the newspaper’s historical archives, including news, editorials, obituaries, announcements, photos, maps, and advertisements from 1877 to 2008.

American County Histories: The Southwest States
Provides digitized county histories from Arizona, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, published between 1870 and 1923, offering detailed insights into local demographics, culture, and historical events, making it essential for genealogical and historical research.
American West
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Based on sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago, this resource covers westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Includes original manuscripts, maps, photographs and artwork, books and journals, ephemera, broadsides, financial records, and rare printed works.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Arizona Republican
Full-text access to a historical newspaper from Phoenix, Arizona, that became the Arizona Republic, covering news, politics, business, and culture from 1890 to 1922.

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources (Gale Primary Sources)
A vast collection of legal documents from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries. It includes works by major legal theorists such as Grotius and Vattel, as well as foreign legal treatises, comparative law texts, and international law resources. The collection covers diverse legal systems, including Roman, Islamic, Jewish, and ancient laws, and features materials from Yale Law Library, George Washington University Law Library, and Columbia Law Library.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832--1978 (Gale Primary Sources)
Contains the records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court from 1832 to 1978. The collection is derived from two reference sources. For 1832 through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library in Philadelphia. For 1915 to 1978, the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Alternate titles: U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs, 1832-1978
ProQuest Congressional
Coverage: 1789+
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
ProQuest Congressional provides access to federal legislative bills, statutes, committee hearings, committee reports, and voting history while also covering executive branch documents and executive orders. The specific document series included are: Legislative Histories 1969-Present; Bills & Laws 1789-Present; Vote Report 1987-Present; Committee Prints & Misc. Publications 1817-Present; Congressional Record Bound Edition & Predecessors 1789-1997; Congressional Record Daily Edition 1985-Present; CRS Reports 1916-Present; Hearings 1824-Present; House & Senate Documents 1817-Present; House & Senate Reports 1817-Present; Serial Set 1789-2017; Serial Set Maps 1789-Present. V. This Collection also includes: Executive Branch Documents 1789-1939 - the entire range of executive branch publications listed in the authoritative 1909 Checklist, the only systematic effort to provide a complete listing of all documents published by the U.S. Government in its first 120 years. Executive Branch Documents 1789-1932 includes all of the 200,000+ executive branch titles listed in the 1909 Checklist that were not included in the U.S. Serial Set, as well as an additional 200,000 titles from 1910-1932, and Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations 1789-Present - Executive Orders are the formal means through which the President of the United States executes a wide range of actions related to the Federal Government’s internal operations and organization, as well as foreign and domestic policies. ProQuest provides ‘Cross-search’ capability by highlighting related content in the News (historical and current newspapers) for ProQuest Congressional users.
Alternate titles: Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations 1789-Present, CRS Reports 1916-Present, Congressional Publications
ProQuest Executive Branch Documents
Coverage: 1789-1948
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Available as part of ProQuest Congressional Publications, the Executive Branch Documents 1789-1948 targets the entire range of executive branch publications listed in the authoritative 1909 Checklist, a systematic effort to provide a complete listing of all documents published by the U.S. Government in its first 120 years. Executive Branch Documents 1789-1948 includes all of the executive branch titles listed in the 1909 Checklist that were not included in the U.S. Serial Set, as well as additional titles chosen from the period 1910 to 1932.
Alternate titles: Executive Branch Documents

Black Life in America
Comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 20,000 American and global newspapers from 1704 to the present, including over 400 African American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in African American History. Updated daily.
Black Thought and Culture
Full-text access to 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by over 1,000 prominent Black leaders, including abolitionists, civil rights activists, and scholars. Spanning 250 years of history, it features letters, speeches, interviews, essays, and periodicals.
Includes complete runs of Artist and Influence: The Journal of Black American Cultural History (1981-2005) and The Black Panther (1967-1980) newspaper.
History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers
Includes the records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, the Robert F. Williams Papers, the Arthur W. Mitchell papers, and the papers of the Congress of Racial Equity.

African American Newspapers
Full-text access to 19th-century African American newspapers, offering firsthand accounts of cultural life, historical events, and major issues in African American communities, making it an essential resource for studying this period.
Coverage: Varies 1827- 1902
Publications included: The Canadian Observer, The Christian Recorder; The Colored American; Frederick Douglass’ Paper; The Freedmen’s Record; Frederick Douglass Monthly; Freedom’s Journal; The National Era; The Negro Business League Herald; The North Star; Provincial Freeman; Weekly Advocate.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World
Historical Black newspaper from Atlanta, GA provides access to first-hand accounts and extensive coverage of politics and events from 1931 to 2003.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers
Cross-search historically significant African American newspapers offering primary sources crucial for studying American history, culture, politics, and the arts.
Includes: Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender
Historical Black newspaper from Chicago, IL provides access to first-hand accounts and events from 1909 to 1975.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Cleveland Call and Post
Historical Black newspaper from Cleveland, OH provides access to first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events from 1934 to 1991.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel
Historical Black newspaper from Los Angeles, CA provides access to first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events historical local, regional and national news from 1934-2005.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News
Full-text access to this historical Black newspaper from New York, NY, covering politics, culture, and civil rights from 1922 to 1993.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Norfolk Journal and Guide
Full-text access to this historical Black newspaper from Norfolk, VA, covering local, regional, and national news on civil rights, politics, and culture from 1916 to 2003.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Philadelphia Tribune
Full-text access to the oldest continuously published Black newspaper in the U.S., covering African American news, civil rights, politics, and culture from 1912 to 2001.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier
Full-text access to a historical Black newspaper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, covering civil rights, politics, culture, and African American life from 1911 to 2002.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American
Full-text access to a historical Black newspaper from Baltimore, Maryland, covering African American news, civil rights, politics, and culture from 1893 to 1988.

Chicano Database
Chicano Database provides access to a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants since 1992. Topics covered are class, race, and gender.
Coverage: 1967+
Hispanic American Newspapers
Coverage: 1808-1980
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Hispanic American Newspapers provides access to a wealth of historical primary source materials. It's the largest online collection of Spanish-English newspapers printed in the United States.
Hispanic Life in America
Comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 17,500 American and global newspapers, including almost 450 Hispanic American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in Hispanic American History. Updated daily.

The Lily, 1849-1856
The first newspaper for women in the United States, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). Its local and national focus was both temperance and women’s rights.
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Twentieth Century Advice Literature brings together over 100,000 pages of rare material focusing on historical American attitudes towards gender roles and relations, American consumerism, class relations, race, citizenship, education, work, sex, life cycles, family, and religion.
Women's Suffrage
Offers primary source materials documenting the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including letters, speeches, newspaper articles and organizational records from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Collection spans 1849-1913 and includes six significant women's newspapers offering near-comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Women's Suffrage movement.
- The Lily, 1849-1856, the first U.S. newspaper for women
- The Revolution, 1868-1872
- The Remonstrance, 1890-1913
- National Citizen and Ballot Box, 1878 - 1881
- The New Citizen, 1909 - 1912
- The Western Women Voter, 1911 - 1913
With only a gap of twelve years, this important collection essentially covers the length and the breath of the Women's Suffrage movement in the United States.

Indigenous Americans

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
Bibliography of Native North Americans includes primarily journal articles, but also citations for books and government documents, covering American Indian Studies and all disciplines focused on the Indigenous peoples of North America.
Coverage: 1500+
History Vault: American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
This database includes primary sources which focus on American Indians in the first half of the 20th Century. The two major collections included 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 excellent 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.
Alternate titles: ProQuest History Vault: American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
American Indian Histories and Cultures contains primary source material such as manuscripts, maps, journals, photographs and drawings which examine the interaction between American Indians and Europeans in the Americans through the late 20th century.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
Indigenous Newspapers in North America aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. The newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. Highlights from Arizona include the Ak-Chin O'odham Runner, Navajo Times, and Hopi Action News.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Archives Direct: Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
Complete runs of all British Government Confidential Print volumes relating to the nations of South and Central America. This collection begins in the aftermath of independence for the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies of Latin America, addressing the politics of state-building and the Latin American nations’ establishment of their place in the fast-expanding global economy.
Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century (Gale Primary Sources)
Extensive archival material covering Latin American and Caribbean culture and history from the 15th to the 20th century, featuring over 1 million pages curated by leading scholars.
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876—the largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in this region—will provide a comprehensive primary resource for studying the development of Western society and international relations within this important group of islands. This unique resource will prove essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region as far back as the early 18th century.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
Provides readers with current, peer-reviewed, scholarship on the social history of Latin America from pre-Columbian to modern times.