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Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Access World News (Readex)
Includes full text of Harrisonburg's Daily News-Record (4/28/1993 to present) and Staunton's Daily News Leader (6/22/1999 to present). [more info]
Campus/Remote
America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1: 1760-1900 (Readex)
Fully searchable facsimile editions of nearly 30,000 broadsides and ephemera printed in colonial... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture... [more info]
Internet
American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches... [more info]
Internet
American Social History Online
A web tool for finding and using digital content from over 175 American Social History research collections.  A project of the Digital Library Federation. [more info]
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government... [more info]
Campus/Remote
AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images... [more info]
Campus/Remote
ArchiveGrid (OCLC)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories... [more info]
Campus/Remote
ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing. [more info]
Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans... [more info]
Campus/Remote
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
Campus/Remote
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Civil War CD-ROM : the War of the Rebellion (United States War Dept.) (Guild Press of Indiana)
Contains the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies consisting of battle reports... [more info]
Reference Desk
CQ Press Electronic Library (CQ Press)
Searches CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Historic Documents, all in one... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Press Historic Documents Online Library (CQ Press)
A full-text database of primary source documents. Each volume contains approximately one hundred documents highlighting the year's most important events and issues... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck-Healey)
This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex) (Readex)
A collection of full-text digital books. Digital version of the Early American Imprints ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker: 1801-1819 (Readex)
A collection of 36,000 fully searchable digital books... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (The University of Chicago)
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Empire Online (1492-1962)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info]
Campus/Remote
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials... [more info]
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Nation Digital Archive (Nation Publishing Company)
According to a review in Magazines for Libraries, "The Nation is one of the most openly left-wing publications in existence," proud of its independence from any company or political party. [more info]
Campus/Remote
New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago... [more info]
Campus/Remote
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of primary sources written by North American immigrants from 1800 to 1950 ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of letters and diaries reflecting on the immediate experiences of 1,017 women ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
OAIster Database
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press)
This full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The Papers of George Washington:  Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement from 1748-1799. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology
Searchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century. [more info]
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)
Full text of every book about the Americas published anywhere between 1500 and 1926... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition (Readex)
  An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]
  
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Related Subjects
18th and 19th Century History
20th Century History
Africa, Asia, Middle East
Ancient and Medieval History (through 1450)
British & Irish History
Early Modern History (1450-1700)
European History
History of Science
Latin American History (including Carribean)
North American History
Other Regions
Contact the History Librarian:
Patricia Hardesty