Databases
History - Americas
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Recommended Databases
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Thousands of early American serial publications collected by the American Antiquarian Society, covering 1691-1877.
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Indexes and abstracts to journal articles, books and dissertations on the history of the United States and Canada. The citations are from 1964 to present, and the database is updated monthly.
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Full-text biographical information of over 17,500 notable American men and women who are no longer living. Updated quarterly, illustrated, with links to other web resources.
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Full text of scholarly journals in arts and science, business and economics, language and literature, humanities, and social sciences. Current journals are not entered into the database for 2 to 5 years. Searchable by topic or by journal name.
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The historical New York Times from Proquest has digitally reproduced every page from every issue of The New York Times from 1851 to 2001. The full text of the paper is completely searchable due to underlying ASCII text. The results include all graphics and links to continuations on other pages.
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Vast archive of books, newspapers, diaries, photographs, sheet music, maps, pamphlets and more documenting the 19th Century.
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Gale's integrated research platform for their primary resources. It searches multiple primary source databases at once with workflow tools to analyze information.
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Full text historical collections including period newspapers and magazines from the 18th century to the early 20th century in the United States.
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An online collection of over 3,300 fully searchable high quality ebooks in the humanities.
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Full text of over 400 books plus primary sources, slave narratives, images and vetted web sites on the African American Experience.
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Covering 1816-1922, newspapers, magazines, reports and annuals documenting African American religious life and culture.
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Audio database of music from America’s past.
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730 early American newspapers focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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ARTstor is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data.
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Biographical information on over 500,000 people from antiquity to present, including full text of Current Biography.
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Writings, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from earliest times to 1975.
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The full text of over 250 Cambridge histories.
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Concise background information on nations, updated periodically.
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Digitized documents from the NY Historical Society chronicling all aspects of the American Civil War
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Portal to digital content held at the nations' archives, libraries, museums and other cultural heritage organizations.
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Over 1440 early American newspapers from 1690-1900.
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Digitized documents from the NY Historical Society that track the activities of inhabitants, including residential and business directories, organization records and urban guidebooks.
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Index to journal articles about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
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Electronic version of Cambridge University Press's Historical Statistics of the United States(Millenial edition) with the ability to search, navigate, graph and download data.
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Primary and secondary material (books, documents and video) concerning major human rights violations worldwide from 1900 to 2010.
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Resource to worldwide content on all aspects of the humanities in more than 1,450 full-text journals back to 1907.
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Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Articles, primary sources, images, maps and charts from Oxford University Press reference sources pertaining to African-American history and culture.
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Full text of selected Oxford handbooks.
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Digitized orderly books from the NY Historical Socieity spanning 1748-1817
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Primary and secondary sources on the history of feminism 1776-1928.
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Historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.
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Collection of legal materials on slavery in the English-speaking world.
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Journal articles covering applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences; full text from 1994 forward; indexing with abstracts from 1984 forward.
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Index to journals in the social sciences 1929-1983.
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Supports American history studies through periodical articles, topic and event overviews, biographies and multi-media. Cross-searchable with World History in Context.
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Primary source documents relating to these areas, plus academic journal and news articles, references, maps, statistics, audio and video.