History
This database includes information about the first explorers in the New World and investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. It integrates politics, science, the arts, philosophy, and economics while exploring the ongoing development of the United States, its precolonial origins, westward expansion, social movements, internal conflicts, and modern-day defining moments.
ABC-CLIO World at War provides access to reference content and primary sources while including historical insight and analysis on the important themes and consequences of all major U.S.-involved wars, from the founding of the country to the present.
This resource covers human history in all corners of the globe -- from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance -- with a collection of online reference entries, primary sources, interactive lessons, study tools, and librarian and teacher support features. It also includes interactive timelines and biographies of important figures such as Alexander the Great.
Spanning the globe from 1500 to the present, this database combines primary and secondary historical research sources to cover topics from crises in the Middle East to civil strife across Africa. It also includes biographies of political leaders and country profiles.
The American Civil War Research Database is for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. The database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.
Find detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich battles database, and more. These and thousands of other experiences are represented in this 100,000-page collection. It includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images.
American History in Video includes approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. Beginning with the Spanish American War, the early films provide documentary footage of actual people, places, and events together with interviews and other broadcast content from the period. American History in Video will enrich any history program and can be widely used across a school curriculum.
This collection features over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children's and women's magazines.
This resource contains nearly 4,000 interviews of former slaves from across the American South. The interviews were conducted from 1936 to 1938 through the Federal Writers' Project and provide a glimpse into American slavery.
This database includes more than 100,000 pages of monographs, speeches, essays, articles, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from earliest times to 1975. It includes the only full run of The Black Panther - the party's newspaper - and 2,500 pages of oral history interviews recorded by the former Black Panther, David Hilliard. Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are also represented within the scope of the database.
The personal writings of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, spanning more than 400 years, are in this collection. Researchers can explore the thoughts, observations, and experiences of both famous and ordinary women on all subjects. The collection begins in 1500 and moves through to World War II. It includes never-before-published materials from the Imperial War Museum in England.
Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Find out what daily life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history. Includes over 600 color and black-and-white images, maps, and illustrations along with authentic recipes, clothing patterns, songs, dances, and games to assist you in your exploration of the past.
Facts On File African-American History Online is a comprehensive reference database, covering more than 500 years of African-American history from the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement to the present day. The thousands of informative entries include biographies, primary source documents, images, timelines, maps and charts.
Facts On File American History Online is a comprehensive database covering the most important individuals, events, and topics in U.S. history. The thousands of entries include biographies, maps, timelines, primary source documents, and images. Extensive overview essays provide detail on each time period.
Facts On File American Indian History Online is an authoritative reference database that provides in-depth coverage of more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders. More than 500 Native American groups are covered in entries that include primary source documents, biographies, maps, images and timelines. The content is also searchable by tribe and culture area.
Facts On File American Women's History Online is an authoritative reference database that provides thousands of entries including biographies, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and images that are essential to understanding the experiences of women throughout U.S. history.
Focusing on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Facts On File Ancient and Medieval History Online gives a balanced, global view of the world in ancient and medieval times. Thousands of entries on events, people, and primary source documents provide a comprehensive and comparative view of the pre-modern world.
Facts On File Modern World History Online covers the important people and events of world history from the age of exploration in the mid-15th century through the modern era. Topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timeline entries provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, and events that have defined world history.
Fold3 is a site where original historical documents are combined with social networking to create a unique experience involving the stories of our past. Collections are focused on military records including documents relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Additional information found in Fold3 includes historical newspapers and naturalization documents. (in library use only)
The Gerritsen Collection is a women's history collection of periodicals, books, pamphlets and more. Much of this collection is primary source material otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms around the world.
Historic Documents contains hundreds of documents covering the most significant events of each year in history. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
Learn about the civil rights movement, the collapse of Communism, the Holocaust, World War I, and World War II. This resource includes historical documents, timelines, biographies, photographs, lesson plans, and related websites.
This electronic version of the popular reference work offers the ability to create custom tables based on specific statistics of the users' choosing. Topics are population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations.
Explore U.S. and world history by reading historical documents and articles from reference books, history magazines, journals, and newspapers. Check out the timelines, biographies, and maps and photos for an even better understanding of historical events.
In the First Person is an index to personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. The index leads the user to free and commercial subscription websites and to relevant databases made available by Alexander Street Press, including The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries; Black Thought and Culture; British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries; North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories; and North American Women's Letters and Diaries.
The U.S. Serial Set, an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing.
This database provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. It includes letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, beginning around 1840 and extending to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included.
This database catalogs and indexes American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence over centuries. It includes 150,000 pages of materials, including more than 5,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts, all drawn from more than 1,000 sources and representing 1,500 women from all walks of life.
ProQuest Civil War Era contains primary source materials, newspapers, pamphlets, articles and more, covering Manifest Destiny to the end of the Civil War.
This resource is designed as a portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
Discover American history from pre-colonial times to the present by reading historical documents and articles about the famous individuals in American history and about historical events. This resource includes maps, images, and timelines.
This database includes the Ferrar Papers, 1590-1790, from Magdalene College, Cambridge. It documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624; the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas; trade between Britain and America; the ethnic and gender composition of early Virginia; and tensions amongst the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans.
World Folklore and Folklife provides information on the topics of literature, social and religious practices, history, art, music, and languages from different cultures around the world.
Discover 20th century world history by reading historical documents and articles about European, Asian, African and Latin American history including the two World Wars, the Cold War, mass genocide, the rise and fall of Communism, and more. It includes maps, images, and timelines.
