American History

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  America: History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window

  Covers 1,700 journals with U.S. and Canadian history citations and reviews.

• American Memory

  American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. It is a gateway of rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The side offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
• American West

  From early topographical sketches and pioneers' accounts, to photographs of Buffalo Bill and his 'Wild West' stars, explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.
• The Canadian Letters and Images Project

  "The Canadian Letters and Images Project is an online archive of the Canadian war experience, from any war, home front and battlefront, as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves. Begun in August 2000, the Project is located in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University. Through the digitization of contemporary letters, diaries, photographs, and other related materials, the Project permits Canadians to tell their story, and Canada’s story, through their own words and images. It is history without a lens of interpretation by the present."
• Documenting the American South

  A digital publishing initiative that provides images, texts, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture, from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history, interviews, and songs.

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  Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans – Text Creation Partnership (TCP)

  Accurate transcriptions of American documents printed 1639–1800, fully searchable.

• Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

  With 1,316 entries contributed by more than one thousand scholars, this groundbreaking reference work captures what is vital and interesting about the Great Plains—from its temperamental climate to its images and icons, its historical character, its folklore, and its politics.
• Historical Documents (American Memory from the Library of Congress)

  Includes primary documents in American history, the Federalist Papers, and items from the U.S National Archives & Records Administration.
• Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains - Online Images Database

  This digital collection was created in consultation with Native Americans, educators, librarians, and historians. The overall organization of the database is by tribe, including: Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfeet, Salish (Flathead), Kutenai, Chippewa-Cree, Gros Ventres (Atsina), and Assiniboine. The collection consists primarily of images, but includes some text to give context. Most of the images are photographs, but there are also ledger drawings, serigraphs, paintings and other media.
• Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America

  Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from Indigenous peoples' earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches, and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
• Library and Archives Canada

  "Library and Archives Canada (LAC) combines the holdings, services and staff of both the former National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada."
• Making of America, Cornell University
• Making of America, University of Michigan

  A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
• Mountain West Digital Library

  The Mountain West Digital Library is a central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region. It provides free access to over 650,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, and other parts of the U.S. West.
• Voice of the Shuttle - U.S. History

  Meta-index of U.S. history web sites.
• Western Americana Photograph Collection

  Consists of photographs of Indians of the Americas and views of the American West, including landscapes, cityscapes, and mining, railroad, and agricultural operations. Also included are views of towns in Mexico. The bulk of the photographs date from the 19th century.

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

  This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
• Indigenous Newspapers in North America

  From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S. and Canada. With newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era, discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
• New York Times (1851-1922 and 1987- )

  Articles from 1851-1922 and 1987-present searchable and are available free of charge. For articles between 1922 and 1987 see below.

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  New York Times (ProQuest)

  New York Times: Searchable full issues from 1851 with recent 1-month embargo.

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  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.

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  Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)

  Newspaper Source Plus: Full-text major news articles, transcripts, including Washington Post and USA Today.