Researching a Historiography

A gateway to digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, film clips, books, pamphlets, maps, sheet music, and other resources that illustrate and illuminate American history and culture. See for example, "The George Washington Papers, 1741-1799" or "Voices from the days of slavery: Interviews 1932-1975." Drawn mainly from the Library of Congress collections.
Years covered: 1500s-present

A bibliography of literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
Years covered: antiquity-present

Encyclopedia articles and primary documents detailing daily life in different cultures throughout history. Includes images, maps and illustrations, video and audio files, recipes, clothing patterns, songs, dances, games, and lesson plans correlated to the National Center for History in the Schools standards. Covers ancient worlds and Mesoamerica, England and America from the late Middle Ages through modern times, Early Modern Japan, China's Tang Dynasty, the Age of Sail, Medieval Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, Renaissance Italy, World War I, and the Holocaust.
Years covered: antiquity-World War II

From the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this resource offers overviews, maps, and primary source documents about 13 defining migrations: the transatlantic slave trade, runaway journeys, the domestic slave trade, colonization and emigration, Haitian Immigration, Western migration, and Northern Migration. Twentieth-century migrations include the Great Migration, the Second Great Migration, Caribbean immigration, the return South migration, Haitian immigration in the 20th century, and African immigration.
Years covered: 1450-present

An open-access digital library of primary sources in American social history covering the second half of the 19th Century. Books, journals, and Civil War documents from the Cornell collections. Special focus on books in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, science and technology, and religion.
Years covered: 1830-1901

An open-access digital library of primary sources in American social history covering the second half of the 19th Century. Books and journals from the University of Michigan collections. Special focus on books in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, science and technology, and religion.
Years covered: 1840-1901

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that indexes and provides access to quality-controlled Open Access Journals and their articles. The Directory aims to be comprehensive; it is not limited to particular languages or subject areas.
Years covered: 1990-present, selected archive content as far back as 1892.

Citations or full-page images of back issues of scholarly journals, books, and primary sources spanning a wide range of academic disciplines. The entire backfile of each journal (from volume 1, issue 1) is always included, along with the most recent issues of select academic journals.
Years covered: 1860s-present

A general research database that indexes the journals of the scholarly publisher Sage Publications. Use advanced search to search by discipline or by a specific journal. Years covered: 1847-present. NOTE: WE SUBSCRIBE TO FULLTEXT FOR 1999-PRESENT ON SELECT TITLES ONLY.