Databases

Thousands of early American serial publications collected by the American Antiquarian Society, covering 1691-1877.

Thousands of early American serial publications collected by the American Antiquarian Society, covering 1691-1877.

Printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage for researching the history of European colonization and exploitation across the African continent. This resource  charts Africa’s encounters with European imperialist regimes and their impact on the lives of peoples across the continent.

Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.

Full text of over 400 books plus primary sources, slave narratives, images and vetted web sites on the African American Experience.

Covering 1816-1922, newspapers, magazines, reports and annuals documenting African American religious life and culture.

Primary and secondary sources, and videos, concerning the migration of people of African descent to countries around the world from the 19th century to the present.

Chronicles the evolution of American history, culture and daily life from 1690 to 1922. It includes almost 1400 publications.
Early American newspapers, often printed by small-town printers, documented the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities, supported different political parties and recorded both majority and minority views.

Primary source database of original fieldwork from prominent ethnographers.

These archives offer a range of content for the region, providing opportunities for research into issues and events in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean history, as well as historical perspective back to the colonial period. Coverage extends from the 15th to 20th century, providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress and issues in newly independent nations.

An archive of documents chronicling the LGBTQ experience in the 2nd half of the twentieth century. It includes newsletters, newspapers and periodicals, archives from LGBTQ rights organizations worldwide, government and medical responses to the AIDS crisis and more.

Offers an array of subject-specific resources primarily tailored to scholars conducting academic research. Particular strengths in the Archive Unbound program include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; and global affairs. In this guide, you'll find detailed lists of sub-collections belonging to various subject headings Gale has assigned to their databases. Each sub-collection listed includes a description of the contents and a link to directly access the sub-collection from on or off campus.

This site is a curated selection of primary sources for teaching and learning about the struggles and triumphs of Black Americans from slavery and the abolitionist movement to contemporary times.

Writings, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from earliest times to 1975.

A digital library of modern international history. It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. Complementing the core content, the Churchill Archive offers a range of additional materials, including pedagogical resources and secondary materials.

Digitized documents from the NY Historical Society chronicling all aspects of the American Civil War

Colonial Caribbean covers the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870. The volumes included within this resource are all sourced from The National Archives, UK.

• Module I: Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832: covers the establishment of British colonial settlement, the rise of absentee landlords, the rise and decline of the slave trade, and the rise of the abolition movement.
• Module II: Colonial Government and Abolition, 1833-1849: covers the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act, its impact on the Caribbean islands and their governments, the introduction of apprenticeships, and resistance to abolitionist legislation.  
• Module III: Economic Change and Indentured Labour, 1850-1870: covers the rise of indentured labor of Chinese and Indian workers against a backdrop of injustice and poverty in previously enslaved communities, leading to widespread rebellion across the Caribbean.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 is official British government correspondence concerning Africa from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office. It was issued by the British Government and is part of the series that originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked 'Confidential Print' were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.

The archive's mission is to document CUNY's history from the ground up, highlighting the struggles for open admissions, tuition abolition, and the fight for a more democratic institution. The collections provide online access to historical materials, including oral history interviews and digitized primary sources. They often document significant movements and activism within CUNY. The archive is built by and for the CUNY community, which includes students, faculty staff, archivists, retirees, and alumni, all contributing to the Archive. Collections include the Oral Histories on Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition at CUNY, The Fight for Asian American studies at Hunter College , and Occupy CUNY.

150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting documents, and videos on the history of disability and disability studies, with emphasis on the disability rights movement.

A full-text research database covering “the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America”— among them are Black Americans, Arab Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Indigenous Americans, and Asian Americans (including Chinese, Filipino, and South Asian Americans). Focus is on the United States, and most content is in English. The database includes full-text articles from thousands of ebooks,  465  journals, magazines, and newspapers as well as  primary sources.

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.

Complete facsimile edition of The Economist, fully searchable.

A vast eighteenth-century library of a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. (Gale Primary Sources)

Annotated collection of primary documents on British history covering 500-1914.

Gale's integrated research platform for their primary resources. It searches multiple primary source databases at once with workflow tools to analyze information.

Search across Gale Research Complete resources, including periodicals, literature, primary sources, eBooks, business, and more.

Digitized documents from the NY Historical Society that track the activities of inhabitants, including residential and business directories, organization records and urban guidebooks.

Primary source collections currently available on JSTOR are multidisciplinary and discipline-specific and include select monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3D models, spatial data, type specimens, drawings, paintings, and more.

LACLI Is a repository of free online e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S Latinx, and Iberian content. It is a great tool for finding a large variety of resources such as audiovisual materials, e-books, and digital primary sources. LACLI is managed by the Latin American Northeast Libraries Network (LANE).

An archive of documents chronicling the LGBTQ experience in the 2nd half of the twentieth century. It includes newsletters, newspapers and periodicals, archives from LGBTQ rights organizations worldwide, government and medical responses to the AIDS crisis and more.

Parts 1 and 2: 62,400 works tracing the development of the modern world through trade and wealth.

General database designed for public libraries with full-text. In addition to magazines, it includes primary source documents, biographies, illustrations and reference book excerpts.

National Theatre Collection contains 50 high-definition streaming videos of live theatre productions by the U.K.’s National Theatre, accompanied by archival materials such as prompt scripts and costume designs. It includes both productions of new works by contemporary playwrights and new productions of classic plays, including Greek theatre, works by Shakespeare, and 20th-century classics.

Explore well over a million items digitized from The New York Public Library's (NYPL) collections. The collections span a wide range of historical eras, geography, and media. NYPL Digital Collections offers drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, atlases, photographs, posters, prints, rare, illustrated books, videos, audio, and more. Over 180,000 of the items are in the public domain.

The collections are available through a modular topic-specific format of archives representing the vast changes that occurred during the nineteenth century. Interdisciplinary in scope. (Gale Primary Sources)

Articles, primary sources, images, maps and charts from Oxford University Press reference sources pertaining to African-American history and culture.

Collection of digitized primary sources originally produced by the Race Relations Department at Fisk University. The Race Relations Department was an influential think tank offering a forum for discussion and research on racial topics. Subjects addressed include poverty and inequality, segregation, class, housing, employment, education, and government policy.

The collection includes over 100 hours of audio recordings of speeches given by prominent members of the Civil Rights movement, surveys, case studies, photographs, and scrapbooks. The physical documents were digitized from the archives of the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, housed at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans.

Dates covered: 1943-1970.

Rafu Shimpo, which is based in Los Angeles, has been the nation's leading Japanese American newspaper since its original publication.
This digital archive includes issues from 1904 to 2024 with an additional year’s worth of content added on an annual basis.

Digitized orderly books from the NY Historical Socieity spanning 1748-1817

Primary and secondary sources on the history of feminism 1776-1928.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The collection includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period. (Gale Primary Sources)

Historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.

Collection of legal materials on slavery in the English-speaking world.

Online primary source materials including manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and other documents for the study of slavery, abolition, and social justice.
Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice.

Includes 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.

Documents pertaining to the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.