E-Resources for History & Primary Resources

Provides access to full runs of 26 major entertainment trade and consumer magazines, including Broadcasting, Billboard, Melody Maker, The Stage, and Variety.

Wiley's Environmental Science and History Digital Archive focuses on critical aspects of environmental science, history, and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. The archive includes manuscripts, images, maps, and photographs covering topics such as deforestation, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, ecology, botany, biodiversity, extinction, water sources, irrigation, wetlands, and hydrology.

Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Provides access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries. Subjects cover all aspects of life, including economics and trade, government, health, historic events, labor, language, law and crime, literature, military, philosophy, politics, religion, science and technology, society, and customs.

Provides access to the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. This resource includes translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and commentary. Full text is available.

A digital collection of primary source documents covering the lives of immigrants and Indigenous peoples in various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa, and Australasia. Topics covered include land and property, women's history, religion, the natural world, warfare, health and medicine, family, business and trade, agriculture, arts and entertainment, politics, and more. Resources include correspondence, diaries, government papers, business records, land transactions, legal documents, speeches, books and pamphlets.

This database allows for searchability across all available Gale digital archives from a single interface. Contains full text of primary sources in the following collections: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, British Library Newspapers, The Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Indigenous Peoples: North America, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, American History and Culture, Sabin Americana, The Times (London) Digital Archive, and U.S. Declassified Documents Online.

Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration. It includes a growing herbaria community-contributed collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials. Also includes reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, photographs, and links to taxonomic literature.

Provides access to Godey's Lady's Book, a 19th century publication intended for American women. Covers topics such as fashion, mineralogy, handcrafts, dance, health and hygiene, recipes, and remedies. Resources in this collection include poems, stories, articles, chromolithographs, color plates and color plate fashion, advertisements, cartoons, drawing, engravings, fashion plates, illustrations, maps, mezzotints, portraits, sheet music, and woodcuts. Full text is available.

Archives the historical Guardian and Observer British newspapers, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

Full text of Harper's Weekly, the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction era periodical. HarpWeek provides access to illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and advertisements. Coverage includes the Civil War Era (1857-1865), Reconstruction (1866-1877), and Gilded Age (1878-1912).

Shared digital repository of millions of library books and journals converted from print resources owned by research institutions around the world. HathiTrust Digital Library does not permit downloading or viewing the full text of books that are still under copyright (typically published since 1923). Only materials that are no longer under copyright may be viewed online or downloaded.

Provides access to a comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals. Each journal in the database begins from its inception. Also includes access to code of federal regulations, legal classics, treaties and agreements, U.S. Attorney General opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. statutes at large, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Full text is available.

Provides access to more than 350 Spanish-language and bilingual Spanish-English newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. These newspapers offer unabridged voices, ranging from intellectuals and literary notables to politicians, union organizers, and grassroots figures. Key titles include El Clamor Público (Los Angeles), El Nuevo Mexicano (Santa Fe), Latin Times (Chicago), and El Misisipi (New Orleans). 

Combining deep historical content with current sources, Hispanic Life in America provides primary source documents related to Hispanic American life. Hispanic Life in America is continually updated to reflect the latest news in government, business, and arts—from U.S. immigration policies and the response at the U.S. southern border, to the Dreamers and the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), as well as the ongoing influence of Hispanic American businesses, politicians, musicians, athletes, and others

Searches the full text of twelve historical newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Guardian and Observer, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Pittsburgh Courier, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. Source for quantitative facts of American history. Downloadable and customizable to suit individual areas of interest.

Searches the full text of the Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, and Pittsburgh Courier.

Digital archive covering all aspects of 20th-century human migration, including first-hand reports and global analysis. Built from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS).

Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to understand and analyze Native American migration and forced resettlement throughout U.S. history, U.S. Government Indian removal policies, and subsequent actions to address Native American claims against the U.S. Government. This collection includes congressional publications, treaties, maps, and docket materials for all Indian Claims Commission cases, as well as cases that preceded and followed the existence of the commission.