American History Resource Guide: Library Databases

Academic OneFile is Gale's major source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles. It provides extensive coverage in all academic subjects and offers millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text. Offers extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

A full-text database with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. Covers all academic subjects, including history.

Combines over 422,000 biographies from over 135 Gale Group reference sources. Includes the complete Marquis Who’s Who.

A historical reference resource which allows access to the texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Includes The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, and The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of America. All volumes are grouped by topic, and the user may browse or search.

This database includes searchable encyclopedias, such as Dictionary of American History, and Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History.

Contains back runs of nearly 2,000 scholarly publications in various academic fields. Search by category or within a particular journal.

The African American Studies Center is an online, searchable collection of quality reference works, including African, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America, Second Edition, and African American National Biography.

Provides online access to most Oxford journals. Includes well over a dozen historical journals.

Provides full-text scholarly journals of the Johns Hopkins University Press and its publishing partners. Journal categories include economics, history, literature, and philosophy.

This database offers U.S. History primary and secondary sources, including encyclopedias and monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts.

Although the emphasis is on science journals, Wiley Online Library provides a social science and humanities collection, which include nearly 20 journals that cover American historical topics. All articles are available in PDF format.

Provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries. A product of Ancestry.com.

Features over 7,500 historical American periodicals from the 17th through the late 19th century.

These 160 periodicals include reports on economics and government affairs. Titles include The New England Post Office Record and The Social Science Review. Also included are periodicals covering local news, such as Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Bowen's Boston News Letter.

Research global political and economic news and analysis with the source used by top leaders and thinkers.

HeinOnline is a searchable digital (PDFs) collection of law and law-related materials. They include Pentagon Papers, Session Laws Library, State Statutes: A Historical Archive, U.S. Code (from 1925), U.S. Congressional Documents (from 1780s), U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large (from the 1780s), U.S. Supreme Court Library, and more.

Provides searchable statistics from over 1000 sources and includes over 37,000 data series. Download tables in Excel, CSV, or entire groups as a zip file.

"Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series now contains 32 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions." Browse by title, topic, or index term or search the database.

An on-going digitalization project, the site contains a wide range of legal and law-related archival material from state, federal, and territorial governments, as well as from Anglo-American collections, and foreign and international jurisdictions. Material is both primary and secondary.

The collections include documentation on the major events of the civil rights era, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Selma to Montgomery March, and other events spanning the full 20th Century.

The Nation Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of The Nation, beginning with its first issue in 1865 all the way to the present. The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception.

This database offers searchable full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times from 1851 through 2001. The database includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in downloadable PDF files.

“Contains over 210 publications related chiefly to the hard science disciplines, such as mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, and geology.”

Contains over 210 periodicals, spanning the Colonial through the Jacksonian Eras, from the 1730s to 1840s. Includes titles such as The Ladies' Companion, The Lady's Book, and Margret Fuller's Transcendentalist publication, The Dial.