History - Modern

Date range: 19th Century
Geographical focus: US
This release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs of persons somehow involved in the American Civil War.

Date range: 17th-20th Centuries
Geographical focus: US
"Non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published."

Date range: 1606-1822
Geographical focus: US, Britain
This collection encompasses all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London. Covering the period 1606 to 1822, this collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is useful for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world.

Date range: 15th to 20th Centuries
Geographical focus: North America
Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

Date range: 1800-1950
Geographical focus: North America
Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives.

Date range: 1968 to 2002
Geographical focus: US, Middle East and Asia. Contains 1,509 formerly secret documents. This collection features records from the White House, National Security Council, State Department, Defense Department, Justice Department, and other federal agencies as well as detailed FBI field reporting, CIA analyses, and military studies.

African American newspapers dating back to the 1800s with full text and full images.

This collection provides access to over 10 million digitised facsimile pages and covers global historical newspapers and periodicals.

Full text for over 700 United States and international newspapers. It also contains full text television & radio news transcripts.

This collection is an index covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present day.

This collection includes reference entries, primary sources and images covering pre-contact to the 21st century.

Date range: 17th-20th Centuries
Geographical focus: US
"Non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published."

Date range: 1600-2000
Geographical focus: US
Brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.