History Research Guide

Full text digitized pages of U.S. and global newspapers from 1607-present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date.

Full text digitized newspapers from the 1800s, written by African Americans for African Americans. Also provides early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.

Full text digitized pages of over 7,200 American historical journals and magazines, the majority published 1693-1877. New for Sept 2024: Part VI adds more than 150 titles running up to 1923. Part VII adds over 190 new titles, 1812-1976 (mostly from the 1840s to early 1900s). The library does not license Part VIII. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.

Full text digitized reproductions of more than 1,500 eighteenth and nineteenth century American newspapers and periodicals archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Titles include general interest, children's, women's, early scientific, and professional publications that chronicle the development of America across 150 years published from 1740-1940.

Full text digitized legislative and executive documents of the first 14 U.S. Congresses (1789-1838), many originating from the period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817. Note: Go to Readex AllSearch to include the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1994) in your search.

Full text of over 15,000 digitized primary sources including correspondence; speeches, sermons, and lectures; articles, essays, and editorials from more than 200 newspapers; and poems and other miscellaneous documents from African Americans involved in the abolition movement between 1830-1865, with the majority of content coming from the U.S., Canada, and the British Isles.

Full text digitized newspapers, pamphlets, proclamations, and newsbooks from 17th and 18th century English news media. Mainly materials published in London, with some papers from provincial England, Ireland, Scotland, the American colonies, Europe, and India. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.

(1909-1975) Full text digitized newspaper covering politics, society, and events of the time from an African-American perspective

(1849-2014) Full text digitized newspaper. Includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover.

Full text digitized declassified government documents from 1945-present regarding U.S. policy toward critical world events, with each module organized around a distinct topic and time period. See more… for a listing of the specific modules acquired by the library. Produced by the nongovernmental National Security Archive.

Full text of over 136,000 English-language books, tracts, and printed ephemera published in the UK between 1701-1800, plus thousands from elsewhere. Primarily in English, also contains works in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh. Access provided by the Mansfield Library and the UM Law School. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.

Full text edited correspondence from the most eminent thinkers and writers of the early 17th to mid-19th century, linking people across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Access limited to 1 user at a time.

Full text of several million pages of digitized primary source materials drawn from the National Archives, presidential libraries, and the archival papers of key organizations and individuals, presented in eight modules: (1) Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, (2) Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1, (3) NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files, (4) NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces, (5) Slavery and the Law (1775-1867), (6-7) Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records, Parts 1 and 2, (8) Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975. Note: Beginning July 2024, History Vault moved to a new interface. The former version is available from History Vault (Legacy).

Full text of nearly 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other works from the influential writers and legal scholars of the era. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.

Full text digitized newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. Includes major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests. Also included are illustrated papers that bring the nineteenth century to life through the drawings of many artists. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.

Full text digitized books, pamphlets, serials and other documents of original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more about the Americas, published throughout the world. Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.