Access to scholarly journals, dissertations and book and media reviews about U.S. and Canadian history and culture. Coverage for some titles back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Access to 20th century primary source materials including selected speeches, letters, legal decisions, government documents, lyrics, advertisements, literary scripts, recipes, scrapbooks, and cartoons. Continued in American Decades: 2000-2009.
Digitized archival materials from the Library of Congress, including legal and historical materials.
The Library of Congress American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture; traditional culture from around the world.
The Archives at Indiana University cover a wide range of cultural and geographical areas, and include commercial and field recordings of vocal and instrumental music, folktales, interviews, and oral history, as well as videotapes, photographs, and manuscripts.
Entries on specific cultural and ethnoreligious groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on religions, holidays, customs, language, historical background and settlement patterns.
Autobiographical testimonies and biographical data from the forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic during the slave trade era from the 16th to the 19th century.
Primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Access to personal narratives including several thousand indexed and searchable pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, starting around 1840 to the present, focusing on 1920 to 1980.
Letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950 plus journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings
Endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.
Provides background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness plus a collection of opinion essays offering solutions to issues related to race.
Digital access to Series 1-5 of the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Research reports on Children and Families, Education and the Arts, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Infrastructure and Transportation, International Affairs, Law and Business, National Security, Public Safety, Science and Technology.
Primary source material from 18th and 19th century including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, business advertisements, and genealogical records.
Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876
Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.
Includes detailed firsthand descriptions of historical characters, glimpses of daily life in the army and at home, anecdotes about key events and personages.
Covers over 140,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses.
Access to portraits of more than 18,700 men and women, updated quarterly, features hyperlinked articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History.
Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
Access to selected newspaper pages from 1836 to 1922. Use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information on newspapers published between 1690-present.
Access to more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876.
Primary source documents on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. Trial ends May 31, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2010.
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