Subject Guides: History (United States): Databases

Databases

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a large multi-disciplinary database containing full text for thousands of publications, many of which are peer-reviewed. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives is devoted to primary source material in American history. Information archived is from leading historical periodicals and books, and includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically.
African American Communities
Contains pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, photographs, and oral histories focusing on African American culture, social conditions, and identity in Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. Includes papers of Austin T. Walden, Herbert T. Jenkins, Thomas J. Pearsall, James B. McMillan, Algernon Lee Butler, and the Chicago Urban League papers, c1916-1985.
African American Newspapers, Series 1: 1827-1998
American Newspapers, Series 1, features 280 newspapers published for or by African Americans from 35 states. The collection includes many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles, including Freedom's Journal (NY)-the first African American newspaper published in the United States-The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L'Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman's Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN).
America: History and Life
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection.
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A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts.
American Indian Histories and Cultures
This resource focuses on interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, up to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. It contains material from the Newberry Library's extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection and also includes manuscripts, artwork, rare books, photographs and newspapers, treaties, speeches and diaries, historic maps and travel journals.
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Full-text access to letters, diaries, and memoirs of participants in and observers of the Civil War including politicians, generals, slaves, farmers, housewives, and others from both the North and the South as well as a few foreign observers. The database also supplies biographical information about the authors of these documents and can be searched by author, date, battle, personal event, geographical location, and other criteria.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
A major collection of U. S. federal government documents, the American State Papers consist of bound volumes of all reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for the years 1789-1838. The American State Papers are the predecessor to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set which begins with the 15th. Congress in 1817 and continues through the present. The digitization of the Serial Set is being done in stages by the Readex company and is part of the Archive of Americana series of databases and currently is available for the 15th. - 58th. Congress (1817-1904). Eventually, this database will provide coverage through the 96th. Congress (1980). This database can be searched and browsed. PDF images of all documents are available for downloading and printing.
America's Historical Newspapers: U.S. Civil War
Full text/full page images of newspapers published during the American Civil War.
ArchiveGrid
Useful for searching for primary sources such as historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world. Provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions for libraries, museums and archives worldwide. Provides titles of collections, holding institutions, brief descriptions, and links to extended descriptions
Number of simultaneous users: Unlimited.
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The first African American Daily in the U.S., the Atlanta Daily World offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. The Daily World covered racial discrimination in the federal government and military, school segregation, and events such as the trials of the Scottsboro Boys.
AUETD
Provides access to Auburn University theses and dissertations c. 2004 onward.
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
The Chicago Defender was one of the most widely read African American newspapers with more than two thirds of its readership outside of Chicago. It took on Jim Crow violence, segregation, and encouraged the Great Migration. Correspondents, columnists, and contributors included Langston Hughes, Ethel Payne, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willard Motley, and Ida B. Wells
Congressional Record
Official record of the proceedings, debates, and activities of the United States Congress.
Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses includes the full text of most U. S. dissertations and master's thesis from 1995 forward. The database also includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans
Full text of nearly every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1800.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides full text of significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas encompassing the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Age of Reason.
Everyday Life & Women in America c.1820-1920
Primary source materials that address topics such as political, social and gender issues, religion, family, fashion & beauty, medicine, and education. It emphasizes conduct of life and domestic management literature, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures. Of special interest, all issues of Town Topics: The Journal of Society (1887-1923) are included.

Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
Provides more than 500 sources including federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, Congressional Research Service reports, U.S. Supreme Court briefs, plus a bibliography all relating to the regulation of firearms in the United States.

Harpweek - The Civil War Era: 1857-1865
Provides a complete set of digitized pages, together with a manually indexed database which provides access to Harper's Weekly by category, topic, and time period, in indexes of the history, literature, advertising, illustrations, and names found in this diverse source.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries. It includes content digitized as part of the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by member libraries. Materials are available to the extent permitted by copyright law. As of March 2015, the HathiTrust digital library contained over 13 million digitized volumes, of which almost 5 million volumes were in the public domain (source: http://www.hathitrust.org/statistics_visualizations).
Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Includes information abstracted from more than 2000 journals published worldwide. From 1955 onward.
Historical Newspapers Online
Online indexing of the Times (London) from 1790 - 1980 and the New York Times from 1851 - 1923. Also includes full text of the Times (London) from 1785 - 1870.
History Reference Center
Designed primarily for K - 12 level students. Provides full text access to reference books and encyclopedias; historical documents; biographies; and images and maps. Also provides full text access to selected periodical articles
Homeland Security Digital Library
Full-text access to documents made available by the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, searchable by keyword or by topic, including general U.S. policy documents, national strategy documents, theses and research papers from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the Naval Postgraduate School, and homeland security executive orders.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Search and browsing access to abstracts and data sets in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data.
JSTOR
A full-text index to backfiles (up until the last five-six years) of selected journals in the social sciences, history included. Note: Auburn University subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I & II Collections and the Life Sciences Collection.

KKK Newspapers of the 1920's
Local, regional, and national newspapers published by Ku Klux Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers across the U.S. during the 1920's. Also included are several anti-Klan newspapers.

Military & Government Collection
Provides access to over 500 military-related publications.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Searchable database containing digital images of 19th-century newspapers presented as full page layouts as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. Collection includes newspapers from urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

Picture Post Historical Archive
Comprises the complete archive of the Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957 digitized from originals in color.

Project MUSE - Standard Collection
A full-text index to selected humanities and social science journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
ProQuest Congressional
Congressional publications and reports, Congressional hearings, bills and laws, legislative histories, and the Congressional Record from 1789 to the present.
ProQuest Statistical Insight
United States Federal statistical reports, state government and business reports, and international statistical publications covering all topics.
Serial Set Maps
Maps published between 1817 and 1980 by the United States Congress.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
This collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries, with 16 areas of focus: slavery in the early Americas; African coast; the Middle Passage; slavery and agriculture; urban and domestic slavery; slave testimony; spiritualism and religion in slave communities; resistance and revolts; the Underground Railroad; the abolition movement and the slavery debate; legislation and politics; freed slaves, freedmen and free black settlements; education; slavery and the Islamic world; varieties of slave experience; slavery today and the legacy of slavery. Also includes case studies from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Slavery in America and the World
Known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set
A major collection of U. S. federal government documents, the U. S. Congressional Serial Set consists of bound volumes of all reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The digitization of the Serial Set is being done in stages by the Readex company and is part of the Archive of Americana series of databases and currently is available for the 15th. - 58th. Congress (1817-1904). Eventually, this database will provide coverage through the 96th. Congress (1980). This database can be searched and browsed. PDF images of all documents are available for downloading and printing.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Access to a variety of document and primary resources pertaining to women and social movements from 1600 to 2000.

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