Digital library of works written or published in the United States, as well as items printed elsewhere, that document the history of the Americas from 1492 to the 1926.
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Designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period, between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
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1493-1945 Traces the progress of American history and extensively covers the major themes of the period from colonization and settlement through the revolution, expansion, politics, slavery, the civil war and reconstruction to World War II.
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1550 -2000 Explores the consequent political, social and cultural impact on American Indian life against the backdrop of an ever-expanding western frontier through a wealth of rare original documents.
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1606 -1822 Constitutes the original correspondence of the the colonial governments with the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State for the Southern Department and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, together holding responsibility for the British possessions in mainland North America and the Caribbean.
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1650-1920 - captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world. Experience settlements across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Explore documents on the creation of new states, trade networks, and movements of people in these regions alongside the marginalisation and decline of indigenous peoples.
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Covers 1420-1920. Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection dedicated to the history of exploration.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery is devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery. It includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials.
Generously funded by the James E. Jones endowment
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Coverage: 1639-1800. Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, this has been hailed as a definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
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Provides a comprehensive set of American imprints published in the early part of the 19th century, including many state papers and early government materials which chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation.
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Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 149,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.
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1700 - 1920 -includes complete access to hundreds of thousands of fully searchable full-text pages and to images from a variety of newspapers, magazines, and books. Our collections include: African American Newspapers, American County Histories, Godey"s Lady's Book, The Liberator, The Lily, and many more resources.
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1654-1954 Explores the history of Jewish communities in America bringing to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, whilst tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
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Coverage: 1690-1922. Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. (formerly called Early American Newspapers, Series I through VII)
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Coverage: 1779-1963. Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Most of the content is pre-1923.
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1828-2011 From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada
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Coverage: 1827-1862. A collection of African-American newspapers containing a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day.
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National, regional and local newspapers in Britain between the 17th and early 20th centuries. Colgate owns parts 1-6
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The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, which helps chart the development of the concept of news and newspapers and the free press, totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden.
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