U.S. History

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

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

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.

730 early American newspapers focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Biographical information on over 500,000 people from antiquity to present, including full text of Current Biography.

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

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

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.

Full text of scholarly journals and books in arts and science, business and economics, language and literature, humanities and social sciences. Current journals are not entered into the database for two to five years.

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.

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

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.

Supports American history studies through periodical articles, topic and event overviews, biographies and multi-media. Cross-searchable with World History in Context.