HNRS 305 -- Explorations in Modern America: Primary Source Databases

Indigenous Peoples: North America sources collections from across Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth into the twentieth century.

Gale Primary Sources allows users to search across all of our Gale primary source collections.

This archive covers every aspect of nineteenth-century science: electricity and electromagnetism, mathematics, engineering, astronomy and astrophysics, color theory, the theory of natural selection, geology and mineralogy, chemistry, and medicine.

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.

This collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. It is an unprecedented scholarly collection, and it offers never before available research and teaching opportunities.

Provides contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. History. This resource merges reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.

Features current full text and pertinent backfile coverage of topics relevant to women around the world, including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.

Abstracting and indexing of all government publications with full text for Congressional Hearings 1824 to present. Plus bill tracking and legislative histories, member profiles, research, and CIS index.

Mountain Scholar is a repository service that collects, preserves, and provides access to digitized library collections and other scholarly and creative works from several academic institutions in Colorado and Wyoming.

This brings together the collections of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available. It provides over 34 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, and the data of science.

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.

Note: Also cross-searchable via NewsVault

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922.

With digital scans of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement, and illustration.

Note: Also cross-searchable via NewsVault

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 880,000 digitized pages, representing over 200 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado primarily from 1859 to 1923.

EAA presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.

Coverage: 1850-1920

The Rotunda Founders Early Access project provides thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders for free. Collected over many years by the Founders documentary editions, these letters and other papers penned by important figures such as James Madison, John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson offer Americans a wider view of the early Republic.

Making of America (MoA) provides online access to sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Coverage: 1850-1877

A cooperative venture of Stanford University, the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and the King Estate, the Project's principal mission is to publish definitive volumes of Dr. King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. Also includes an autobiography, biographies and a chronology of Dr. King, as well as articles written by project staff members.