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Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history.

1955-present
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Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals,book and media reviews, and dissertations.

1955-present
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Core scholarly journals, ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.

1800s-present (2-5 yr embargo)
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Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences.

1996-present
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Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism. Includes large a collection of slave narratives. 

Ancient times-present
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African American Archives provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience.

1672-1941
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Focuses predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.

1840-2010
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This collection was developed with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) as part of an effort to preserve serials related to African American religious life and culture.

1829-1922
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Primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary and social history, ethnic studies, and more.

1827-1998
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Offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

1760-1900
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More than 7,000 videos including commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. 

1500s-present
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Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this collection of documents brings to life American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II.

1493-1945
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Ancestry® Library Edition, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.

1300-present
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Now part of Readex AllSearch

The Archive of Americana features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more.

1639-1980
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Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.

1500-present
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Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 presents a collection of historical content pertaining to U.S.

1700s-1960
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Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more.

1905-present
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The Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion onlin

1600-present
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The International Medieval Bibliography comprises 365,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records.

300-1500
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The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 1975.

1704-1975
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British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world.

1000s-1800s
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Collections range from digitized manuscripts (Beowulf and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook) and illuminated manuscripts, to an extensive collection of maps from around the world.

1000-present
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British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

1700-1950
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C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Poole's Index.

1800s
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Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies was founded in 2002 to develop new educational opportunities for students, teachers, and the community.

1915-present
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This collection provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West.

1793-1980
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ProQuest and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have teamed up to digitize the association’s archives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civi

1909-1972
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Colonial America consists of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London.

1606-1822
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Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers.

2000-present
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The Digital Library on American Slavery offers a searchable collection of public records concerning enslavement.

1750-1867
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Digital Theatre+ gives access to over 600 award-winning productions and a wealth of related study materials.

1970s-present
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains  virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere.

1473-1700
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East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London.

1599-1947
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The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015.

1843-2015
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A variety of materials is included—from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera—with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors.

1700-1799
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Empire Online contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires.

1492-2007
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English Historical Documents is a comprehensive, annotated collection of over 5,000 documents on British history.

500-1914
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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

1990-present
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On-campus access only.

Fold3 provides access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

1700s-1800s
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FBIS Daily Reports include English-language, full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from around the world.

1941-1996
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A research and learning platform that allows students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR text) from all of Gale's primary source collections.

1500-present
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Gale Primary Sources searches 18th Century Collections Online (ECCO), 19th Century Collections Online (NCCO), the Making of the Modern World, and Sabin Americana.

1500-1926
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This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.

10200 BCE-present
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The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 2009.

1704-2009
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A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.

1900-present
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Presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact.

1493-2010
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From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S. and Canada. 

1828-2016
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The International Medieval Bibliography comprises 365,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records.

300-1500
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The library's subscription includes the following databases:

400-1700
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Latin American Newspapers provides access to more than 280 Latin American newspapers published between 1805 and 1922. Featuring titles from 20 countries in the region.

1805-1922
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The Making of the Modern World is a digital collection of primary sources covering the history of Western trade. 

1450-1945
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American Consumer Culture provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting documents.

1935-1965
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Explores the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia.

1800-2000
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online focuses on primary source collections including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.

1796-1910
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A free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers.

1806-1890
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C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Poole's Index.

1800s
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Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Each newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

1800-1899
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19th Century UK Periodicals covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. 

1800-1900
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD)  includes the immediate experiences of 1,017 women, as revealed in approximately 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, and manuscripts.

Colonial times-1950
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Oxford Digital Reference provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences.

Ancient times-present
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Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer)

1764-2005
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Religions of America traces the history and unique character of religious movements that originated in or were re-shaped by the US during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

1792-2004
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This collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s.

1500-1926
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The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.

1915-present
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a thematically organized, historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.

1490-1896
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Online primary source materials including manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and other documents for the study of slavery, abolition and social justice.

1490-2007
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Provides access to over 3 million pages of 16th- & 17th-century British government documents and over 200,000 searchable pages of Calendars and catalogues.

1509-1714
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The Times Digital Archive (London) provides access to the entire newspaper, with all news articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, editorial and commentary, and features.

1785-2014
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This archive presents materials covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.

1800s-1999
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