History

Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans is a full-text collection of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639-1800. It is a definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.

Series I is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, catalogs, laws, maps, narratives, novels, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches and treaties.

Topics covered include agriculture, capital punishment, commerce, education, foreign affairs, French & Indian wars, medicine, military operations, religious thought, revolutionary war, slavery, suffrage, temperance, trials, women, and work.

Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first 19 years of the 19th century. It also includes published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public.

Through this database, students and scholars can research westward expansion, the development of American arts (literature, music, painting, etc.), and the progression of American political thought.

Subjects include the following: 12th Amendment, abolitionism, canals, Embargo Act, Hartford Convention, Lewis & Clark Expedition, Louisiana Purchase, nationalism, Panic of 1819, Tippecanoe, Treaty of Ghent, and the War of 1812.

This database allows users to search two collections of the New York Times. The ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index collection covers 1851-2017. The ProQuest Recent Newspapers: The New York Times covers 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).

Researchers can move beyond key words to search for articles by subject, company, location, person, or creative work. Research outcomes are further enhanced through the addition of abstracts, detailed citation information, as well as topic headings for further exploration. Every issue of includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in PDF format.

African American Newspapers, Series 1 & 2, covers major developments in African American history including life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, and recent (up to 1998) political and economic empowerment, among others. The collection includes not just news stories but editorials, obituaries, advertisements, and illustrations. Each digitized newspaper was originally published either by or for African Americans.

Indigenous Newspapers in North America aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the U.S. and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.

Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

Many titles – such as Ak-Chin O'odham Runner, the Cherokee Phoenix and the Navajo Times – are digitised in large runs of more than 500 issues, enabling researchers to follow reporting on specific events to compare style and presentation over the decades. The bulk of titles were founded in the 1970s, documenting the proliferation of Indigenous journalism that grew out of the occupation of Wounded Knee, meeting the demand for objective reporting from within Indian Country. This collection provides exciting research opportunities into subjects including the self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective.