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.
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.
Digitized 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 resource is provided by the Electronic Library of Minnesota, freely accessible to anyone in Minnesota!
Digitized 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.
This resource is provided by the Electronic Library of Minnesota, freely accessible to anyone in Minnesota!
Includes digitized images of pages from American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
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.
Gale Primary Sources allows unified searching of Gale primary source collections for a comprehensive research experience.
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
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.