History Research Guide

Provides full-text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2013. Full-text of the New York Times from 1980 to the present may be found under the link for New York Times.

Full text, digitized copies of New York newspapers from all over the state. Search by county or town, newspaper, date, or keyword. Freely available with no login needed.

A collection of 500 U. S. newspapers with full text content and images.

Covers the period 1785 - 2011 with full text content and images

The world's largest archive on the history of slavery with more than 5 million searchable pages from books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, court cases, etc.

This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

Provides a perspective on women's social movements throughout U.S. history via primary documents, collections interpreting the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and a collection of relevant images.

Provides access to history from the female perspective and world wide coverage of primary literature.

Covers LGBTQ history and culture since 1940.

The online version of a standard resource for historical statistics about many aspects of the United States. Includes downloadable tables that you can customize for research and class presentations.

More than 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1801-1900, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing. For detailed information on searching HCPP, see http://proquest.libguides.com/parliamentary/about

Covers British theatre, music & literature. Has primary source literature from 1800 - 1900.

Full text content from many North American periodicals published from 1684 - 1912 with a single search. Also includes some journals from Britain. View the full contents.

On-campus access only. Billions of genealogical records in more than 7,000 databases that include census data, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, etc., covering North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more. Date coverage is 1300-current.

Early English Books Online is the definitive online collection of early printed works in English and works printed in England.

Contains every significant English language title printed in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800.

Search the full text of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers, The Times of London Digital Archive, Nineteenth Century Collections Online Archive 3: British Theatre, Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Part 1, and Women's Issues and Identities.

LitFinder allows you to access over 135,000 poems, stories and plays in full-text.

More than 3 million articles from over 550 leading magazines, covering the years 1890-1982.

Big collection of video (documentaries, newsreels, archival film) providing primary resources on the United States and its history

The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images. The Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.