History Subject Guide

Contains hundreds of historic newspapers from 1690 to 1922.

A highly comprehensive digital collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912 which are held by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).

This 100,000-page collection contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich battles database, and others.

This database contains over 600,000 biographies on more than 500,000 people gathered from more than 170 award-winning Gale reference sources.

The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850 focusing on personal accounts, and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. It also includes nearly 1,000 prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages.

Encyclopedia Virginia (EV) is an authoritative and user-friendly resource on the history and culture of Virginia.

This database is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index .

Online journal collection that contains the backfile of journals from a variety of subject areas

Contains 1,500 American and Canadian womens diaries and correspondence. Spanning more than 300 years , the 150,000 pages of materials provide a detailed record of women's daily life.

The periodicals in this collection depict the ongoing struggles of abolitionists to end slavery in the United States and the response from people who supported slavery for economic and cultural reasons.