EBSCO - leading scholarly index to journal literature of history and culture in U.S. and Canada. Covers some journals back to 1910. Indexes 1,700 journals.
EBSCO - A index to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Covers European exploration, portrayals of Native American peoples, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and slavery.
Historical Documents, interviews, photographs from the collections of the Library of Congress with links to other historically significant collections nationwide.
Online collection of papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. From the National Archives.
Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations. From the University of Missouri Libraries
Readex -Articles and full-text books published in 17th- and 18th-century America. Subjects include agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, and religion.
EBSCO - Documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, AAS provides digital access to a comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
GALE - Original accounts of exploration, trade colonialism, slavery, military actions and more from 1500 to the early 1900's. Covers North, South & Central America and the West Indies.
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.
ProQuest - (1543-1945) Large collection of primary and secondary sources on women published between 1543 and 1945. Covers history, education, feminism, employment, health and medicine, biography and political and social reform.
Provides full-text access to over 4,300 books and hundreds of periodicals from around the world.
ProQuest - Digital facsimiles of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700. Books from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America.
ProQuest - Full text of scientific journals and popular magazines printed between 1740 to 1940. Titles range from general interest magazines, women's journals, children's issues and scholarly publications.
GALE -First-person accounts that chronicle Civil War army life. Primarily from the Confederate States and compiled after the war.
It includes in its entirety a collection Travels in the Confederate States. In addition, selected titles were included from Travels in the New South I, 1865-1900.
Hein - Providing legal statutes, case law and articles on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world with links to external and web content. From off-campus you will have to register (free) as an individual to access the database.
GALE - Includes three primary source archival collections. Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 Parts I & 2, and Religion, Reform, and Society
Science, Technology and Medicine helps researchers place science, along with medicine and technology, in the mainstream of historical study. Includes journals and books on electricity, physics, Darwinian Revolution, civil engineering, mathematics and American medicine.
Religion, Reform, and Scoiety provides documentary materials that explore religious and philosophical movements in reaction to dramatic changes in culture and society wrought by the industrial revolution and modernity. Topics covered include positivism and anti-positivism, freethinking, the cooperative movement, alternative Christianities, and the application of the social principles of Christianity to everyday life by a variety of denominations.
GALE - Full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Lists of newspaper from US, Canada and a few other areas that are available online with links to individual titles and whether the newspaper is available free or for a fee.
Includes roughly 2,000 historic newspapers scanned from around the world, including the Spokesman-Review. Articles are searchable by news source, source location, and/or author, and can be limited by date.
Washington Rural Heritage provides access to digitized primary sources documenting the early culture, industry, and community life of Washington State.
However, you should follow the instructions given by your professor, editor, or journal first. See the Citation Resources page for more detailed information on citation styles.
How to Find U. S. History Books
Browse the library shelves with these call numbers:
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America. United States
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U. S. local history. British, Dutch, and French America. Latin America.