Databases for American History
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Key Databases
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- American National Biography
- Full-text from 1999 edition, including nearly 17,500 biographies of men and women whose lives have shaped the American nation, with essays, bibliographies, illustrations and web links; subjects must have died prior to 1996
- History Cooperative
- Full-text access to current issues of history journals published by major organizations in the field. Includes The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, and Journal of World History among others
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
- Nineteenth Century Masterfile
- Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, government documents, scientific papers, and portraits produced during the nineteenth century
- Early American Newspapers
- A full-text and full-image collection of early American newspapers, based on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820"
Additional Databases
- Accessible Archives
- A collection of databases containing primary newspaper records, including "Godey's Ladys Book 1830-1880," "The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800," "The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective," and "African American Newspapers: The 19th Century."
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- Over 100,000 pages of memoirs, letters and diaries drawn from more than 500 sources, along with biographies and a comprehensive bibliography
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 1,000 scholarly journals from the arts and humanities. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1975 to present
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Indexes nearly 12 million biographies from current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world
- Digital National Security Archive
- Provides access to more than 35,000 important declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), including materials from the Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran-Contra Affair and others
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Indexes and provides full text of over 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the American ethnic press, 1960 to present, starting dates vary
- GPO Monthly Catalog
- Indexes U.S. government publications, 1976 to present
- Keesing's Record of World Events
- Full text archive that contains comprehensive coverage of world events with the ability to search 40 years of global news reports, 1960 to present
- LexisNexis Congressional
- Accesses congressional publications, legislative histories, bills, current laws, regulations and information about congressional members and committees
- Los Angeles Times Historical Archive
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- Includes full-text and full-image issues of the Los Angeles Times (1881-1984).
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or above is required for copying, resizing and printing oversized articles.
- See LexisNexis Academic for the current Los Angeles Times full-text
- New York Times Historical Archive
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- Includes full-text and full-image issues of the New York Daily Times, 1851-1857 and the New York Times, 1857-2001.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or above is required for copying, resizing and printing oversized articles.
- See LexisNexis Academic for the current NYT full-text
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- Full-text database of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Documents date from around 1840 and extend to the present, with a heavy focus on 1920 to 1980
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
- Approximately 154,000 searchable and indexed pages of letters and diaries drawn from more than 1,000 sources. A complement to the "British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500-1900" database
- Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Indexes and abstracts more than 200 popular magazines published in the U.S., 1890 through 1982
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes over 1400 journals, books, and government documents on public policy aspects of business, economics, government and other social science topics, 1972 to present
- U.S. Gazetteer
- Identifies U.S. places and counties and provides census data from the1990 Census
- Wall Street Journal Historical Archive
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- Includes full-text and full-image issues of the Wall Street Journal (1889-1987).
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or above is required for copying, resizing and printing oversized articles.
- Washington Post Historical Archive
- You must have cookies enabled to use this resource.
- Includes full-text and full-image issues of the Washington Post (1877-1988).
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or above is required for copying, resizing and printing oversized articles.
- See LexisNexis Academic for the current Washington Post full-text
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
- A collection of document projects--comprised of essays with supporting documents, images, and web links--focused on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
- Indexes over 1300 scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas and disciplines. Contains a limited number of full-text titles, 1995 to present
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Full text of the complete Encyclopædia Britannica and Britannica Book of the Year
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Indexes articles, with some full text links, to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, 1980 to present
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
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