United States History

|  Web Portals  |  Libraries and Archives  |  Newspapers and Periodicals  |  Indiana History  |

|  Government and Politics  |  Pre-20th Century U.S. resources  |  Modern U.S. resources  |

Web Portals

• UNC Chapel Hill research guides for American Studies.
  
• UNC Chapel Hill Recommended sites for African-American Studies.
  
• US History Web Portal from Fordham University
  
• 19th Century American History Online from Washington State University.
  
• American Legal History Online Resources from the University of Chicago

Libraries and Archives

• Center for Research Libraries Catalog
  
• University of Michigan digital collections--includes American periodicals, poetry, photos, music, and civil war documents.
  
• LOC American Memory Project
  
• Hathi Trust

Government, Law, and Politics

• Reference
  
  
  • CQ American Government A-Z Series: Constitution--Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court.
    
  • CQ American Government A-Z Series: Elections--Encyclopedia of elections in America.
    
  • CQ American Government A-Z Series: Presidency--Resource for information and background material on the nation's highest office and its occupants.
    
  • CQ Political History of America's Wars--An historical guide to the wars of the United States from the Revolution to the present.
    
  • Guide to Congress--A guide to the American Congress.
    
  • Guide to the Presidency--Guide to the American presidency.
    
  • Guide to U.S. Elections--A Guide to American elections, presidential, congressional, gubernatorial.
    
  • Guide to U.S. Supreme Court--Guide to the Supreme Court of the United States.
    

• (De)Classified Documents

  
  
  
  • Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files--State Department Central Classified Files on Afghanistan.
    
  • Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)--The Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents.
    
  • Digital National Security Archives--Access to historical documents that have been declassified.
    
  • Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984--FBI files documenting the scrutiny of African Americans.
    

• Law

  
  
  
  • LexisNexis Statutes at Large--Full text digital copy of the U.S. Statutes at Large since 1789.
    
  • Making of Modern Law--British and American legal treatises 1800-1926.
    
  • Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources (1620-1926)--300 years of legal sources.
    
  • Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 Digital Archive--Books and pamphlets covering trials for a wide variety of crimes, including adultery, land, libel, slavery and theft, among others.
    
  • Supreme Court Compendium--A compendium of information about the American Supreme Court, its processes, members and decisions.
    
  • U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978--Records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.
    

• Congressional Hearings

  
  
  
  • Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, Retrospective A, 1824-1979--Full text of the hearings held by the committees of the U.S. Congress.
    
  • LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection--Full text, digital version of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set.
    

Newspapers

Current


• Major U.S. Newspapers--Summary of electronic access to major U.S. national newspapers.
  
• AltPressIndex--Contains articles covering cultural, economic, political and social change. International in scope; over 300 alternative publications are represented.
  
• AltPressIndexArchive--This database is a guide to alternative sources of information; international and interdisciplinary in scope.
  
• Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)--The full text of the Chicago Tribune with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
  
• Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)--The full text of the Los Angeles Times, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
  
• New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)--The full text of the NYT, images of pages and articles, search and limit by date and article type. Use Lexis-Nexis for last two years.
  
• Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)--The full text of the Washington Post, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
  


• Historical
  
  
  • 19th Century Historical United States Newspapers--A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images.
    
  • Access World News--Full-text access to local and regional newspapers. Includes access to the Chicago Tribune and the Indianapolis Star, as well as America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922.
    
  • African American Newspapers (1827-1998)--Full text of African American newspapers.
    
  • African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century--Database contains the complete text of articles from some of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
    
  • American Periodicals Series Online--Digital archive of 1000 American magazine and journal titles, from 1740 to 1900.
    
  • Early American Newspapers--More than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published during the past four centuries, including titles from all 50 present states, 1690-1922.
    
  • Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980--digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century.
    
  • Historical Newspapers--Includes three indexes: "Palmer's" covering The Times (London) 1790-1905, the Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980 and the NYT 1863-1905 and 1913-1922.
    
  • Pennsylvania Gazette--Newspaper published in Philadelphia between 1728 and 1800.
    
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers--A database of historical newspapers from the United States.
    

Indiana History

• Researching Indiana History--includes bibliographies, periodicals, and image collections relating to Indiana history.
  
• Frank M. Hohenberger Collection--The collection, dating from 1917-1960 and housed in the Lilly Library, consists primarily of photographs by Frank Michael Hohenberger, 1876-1963, Brown County photographer and newspaperman.
  
• Indiana Magazine of History--peer-reviewed articles, research notes, annotated primary documents, reviews, and critical essays that contribute to public and scholarly understanding of midwestern and Indiana history.
  
• Indiana University Finding Aids -- Searchable databases of uncataloged collections at IUB; especially the Lilly Library and the IU Archives.
  
• U. S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971--Collection of photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana.
  
• Working Men's Institute Archival Collections--Selected Archivals of the Working Men's Institute, the oldest continuously operating public library in Indiana. New Harmony is also known as "Athens on the Wabash."

Pre-20th Century Collections and Resources

• American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900--Full-color digital facsimiles of 18th- and 19th-century American ephemeral publications (broadsides, ballads, programs, sermons, libretti, etc).
  
• Civil War, Part I-IV-- Various perspectives on the Civil War from mostly primary sources.
  
• Early American Imprints Series II--Full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
  
• Early Encounters in North America--Searchable text of letters, diaries, memoirs and other accounts of early contacts between Europeans and Native Americans in North America.
  
• Evans Digital Edition--Based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography, this database covers 17th and 18th-cenutry American life and when completed will comprise 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
  
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories--Full text of letters, diaries, autobiographies, and oral histories of immigrants to America and Canada. Covers 1840 to present, but heaviest focus is on 1920-1980.
  
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive--Documents concerning slavery and the slave trade.
  
• Index to Nineteenth Century American Art Periodicals--Indexes the complete contents of 42 American art journals published between 1840 and 1907, including articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements.
  
• Bibliography of Native North Americans (EBSCO)--Includes citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents pertaining to native North American culture, history, and life.

Modern U.S. History

• America: History & Life--Covers the history of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present, indexing more than 2000 journals published worldwide, dissertations and reviews.
  
• Bibliography of Native North Americans (EBSCO)--Includes citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents pertaining to native North American culture, history, and life.
  
• Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection--15,000 Kodachrome slides by amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman (1896-1972) about his travels in the United States and abroad.
  
• Chicano Database--Covers Mexican-American topics and the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
  
• HAPI Hispanic American Periodicals Index--indexes articles from scholarly journals on Latin America, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States.
  
• Historic Documents Series--Reproductions of important documents since 1972. Includes how to cite but not how to find the primary document.
  
• Historical Statistics of the United States--Provides historical statistics for the states and the nation.
  
• Index to Current Urban Documents --Guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies and other organizations in cities of the United States and Canada.
  
• LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History--Provides access to the Guides to Microforms from UPA, a branch of Lexis/Nexis. IUB owns many of these sets but not all.
  
• The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974--Primary resources related to the history, culture, and politics of the American 1960s.