Library Services provides access to many primary sources for United States history topics. In addition to the resources below, please check MavScholar for books and archival material available within Memorial Library.
American Indian Newspapers provides digital access to North American Indigenous journalism from a range of communities, historic presses, and contemporary periodicals spanning two centuries from 1828-2016.
Provides citations, abstracts, and full text to newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Cover-to-cover digitization of the entire newspaper for 1851-2015. Searchable via the ProQuest platform.
Provides full-text newspaper articles from many states and countries, transcripts from mostly major American news sources, and provides citations and selected full-text to legal materials.
Users can study the progression of events over time by browsing full-text, full-image issues of the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1867-2001 with access to news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Provides searchable full-image articles published in the Atlanta Daily World that is part of the ProQuest Historical newspapers – Black Newspapers series.
Provides searchable full-image articles published in The Baltimore Afro-American that is part of the ProQuest Historical newspapers – Black Newspapers series.
Provides searchable full-image articles published in the Chicago Defender that is part of the ProQuest Historical newspapers – Black Newspapers series.
This link opens in a new windowDaily newspaper with full-text coverage from Feb 17, 1997 to present and indexing back to Jan 2, 1989.
Search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980's.
This link opens in a new windowContains top news stories and thorough indexing that covers complete bibliographic information, companies, people, products, and more for local and regional news from 1987 and forward.
This link opens in a new windowDigitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 1 presents titles dating from 1693 through 1820.
This link opens in a new windowDigitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 2 presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837.
This link opens in a new windowDigitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 3 presents over 1,700 titles dating from 1838 through 1852.
This link opens in a new windowDigitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 4 presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865.
This link opens in a new windowDigitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals. Series 5 presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877.
Includes digitized images of pages from American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
A thematic archive, covering key trade and consumer magazines in film and television from first issue to 2000.
Provides a searchable index to full articles, editorials, news briefs, cartoons, illustrations, poetry, and advertisements from Harper's Weekly during the Civil War era from 1857-1865.
A searchable archive of leading women's interest magazines that serves multiple research areas from gender studies, social history, the arts, education, politics, and marketing/media history.
A range of primary source materials focusing on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas from selected U.S. cities.
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century.
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents, covering a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
This resource consists of declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events - including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions - from 1945 to the present.
Covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples in a wide range of subject areas; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.
Gale Primary Sources allows unified searching of Gale primary source collections for a comprehensive research experience.
From 1941 to 1961, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the State Department had classified reports written to help shape U.S. foreign policy and therefore make this an excellent resource for studying significant areas of the world.
Provides users with a source to research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.
A collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress includes Congressional reports & documents, executive agency & departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress, the American State Papers, as well as maps, illustrations, photos, and lithographs
A list of historical documents of important events each year for the United States and the world organized by volumes.
Provides full text reports that comprise in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Provides full text ethnographic information on all aspects of cultural and social life (e.g., religious beliefs, raising children, causes and cures of diseases, economics, politics) for numerous cultures.
A public policy research institution, the RAND Corporation focuses its research on a wide range of policy issues including national security, transportation & infrastructure, international affairs, workforce & labor issues, education, public safety, environmental issues, and healthcare.
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Coverage: 1790 to present.
Comprises information on thousands of slave expeditions between 1514 and 1866 with information about the enslaved peoples, vessels, trading routes, slave traders, and slave owners.
