Historic Newspapers & Periodicals
- Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) This link opens in a new window
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700 full text journals. - American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Digitized copies of eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers, magazines, and journals.
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1,650 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
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Full text of 300 papers
Statistics
- Data.govHome of the U.S. Government’s open data. Official statistical resources from 70+ federal agencies.
- Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
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U.S. historical data and statistics. Tables may be graphed, customized, and downloaded.
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Statistical analysis platform with quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and other areas of interest or markets. Data sources include market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest) 1878-2012 This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive summary of historical statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Coverage from 1878 to 2012.
- Sage Data This link opens in a new window
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Provides original datasets with customizable graphs and tables. Users can scan the contents of these datasets, select subjects and variables of interest (e.g., geographic area and time period), and view the data in side-by-side tables and charts. Also includes data on consumer demographics and usage/spending patterns for products and services within all states, counties, census tracts, and block groups in the US.
American Studies Databases
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts covering the historical literature of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Sources include journals, books, dissertations, and book reviews from 1964 to present. - American Broadsides and Ephemera This link opens in a new window
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Fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The remarkably diverse subjects of these broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Featuring many rare items, the pieces of ephemera include clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations. - America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new window
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72,000 books printed between 1639 and 1819 and 30,000 broadsides and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. - U.S. Declassified Documents Online This link opens in a new window
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Collection of previously classified federal documents ranging from the years immediately following World War II through the 1970s. Materials include intelligence studies, policy papers, diplomatic correspondence, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, and domestic surveillance and military reports.
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
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The most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 38 collections consisting of over 94,000 meticulously indexed documents, with more than 650,000 total pages. Each of these collections, compiled by top scholars and experts, exhaustively covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. Glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs are included. - European Views of the Americas This link opens in a new window
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Bibliography of 32,000 entries about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Created by EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, from the bibliography “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Indexes 2,300 journals from 1955 to present. Indexes and abstracts scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. - Native American Archives This link opens in a new window
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Marketed for tracing heritage or learning about Native American history, this database includes original records totaling over 1.5 million images and including the following collections: Indian Census Rolls, Dawes Packets, Dawes Enrollment Cards, Eastern Cherokee Applications, Guion Miller Roll, Native American Photos, Cherokee Indian Agency TN, and Ratified Indian Treaties. - ProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new windowIncludes access to 11 separate collections of primary source materials including: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century (2 separate collections of government records and organizational papers), Immigration: Records of the INS, NAACP Papers (4 separate collections), Slavery and the Law, Struggle for Women's Rights (organizational records), Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, and Women's Studies Manuscript Collections.
- Sabin Americana This link opens in a new window
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Full text books, pamphlets, and documents about the Americas published from 1500-1926.
General & Related Databases and Indexes
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource contains more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, Academic Search Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. - Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowIndexes 1,100 journals, 1975-present. Subjects include: Archaeology. Architecture. Art. Asian Studies. Classics. Dance. Film, Radio, Television. Folklore. History. Language. Linguistics. Literary Reviews. Literature. Music. Philosophy. Poetry. Religion. Theater.
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Full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. This database provides an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports. - Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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Indexes 2,300 journals with full text from 1,200. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Over 1,800 full text journals. Register for a MyJSTOR account in order to:
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Email and export saved citations
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Receive email alerts for saved searches, tracked journals (eToc), and tracked citations - Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Full text news, legal, business and reference sources. Full text news, legal, business and reference sources. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Indexes 4,400 journals in literature and linguistics. Folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, the historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric and composition, and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. - Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content worldwide. Now also includes access to some of the Project MUSE eBook collection.
- World Digital LibraryWith the support of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.