* History: North America

America's Historical Imprints provides access to a vast collection of primary source materials that chronicle American history and culture from the colonial era through the early 20th century. Users can explore books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed materials that offer insight into the political, social, religious, and economic life of early America. Includes access to African History and Culture, 1540-1921; Black Authors, 1556-1922; Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920; Early American Imprints, Series I; and Early American Imprints, Series II

Based on sources from the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this database provides insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today. The database contains a variety of material types including correspondence, scrapbooks, autobiographies, reports and financial records, minutes and committee reports, surveys, and other printed materials.

Detailed collection of records documenting the history, mission, and intelligence collection and analytic operations of America's largest and most secretive intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and its predecessor organizations.

The collection includes approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts—all in electronic format for the first time. The material is drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, and much of it is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, a wide range of ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.

Compiles primary source materials documenting the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. It includes letters, diaries, memoirs, maps, and images that provide insight into cultural exchanges, conflicts, and the environmental impact of colonization.

Independent India’s first years were marked with turbulent events - partition, a massive exchange of population with Pakistan, the IndoPakistani War of 1947 and the integration of over 500 princely states to form a united nation. This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of the Subcontinent between 1945 and 1949, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned India in the postwar period.

Provides a robust, diverse, informative source that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada. This digital archive highlights the impact of invasion and colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge through the use of manuscripts, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, images of artwork, and more.

The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Collection contains more than 3,700 titles relating to indigenous American law including 30,000+ pages of tribal codes, 400+ indigenous treaties, federal case law, jurisprudence, scholarly articles, books, pamphlets, and more. The database also includes the Indian Law Reporter, an essential source for indigenous American case law.

Based on sources from the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this database provides insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today. The database contains a variety of material types including correspondence, scrapbooks, autobiographies, reports and financial records, minutes and committee reports, surveys, and other printed materials.

The Rotunda Press American History Collection contains a set of peer-reviewed digital projects, both born-digital and from authoritative letterpress editions, documenting the history of the nation from the founding era through the early 20th century. The collection includes papers and correspondence of former Presidents including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as other influential Americans such as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Marshall, Gouverneur Morris, Benjamin Rush, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Harriott Pinckney Horry, Booker T. Washington, and Frederick Law Olmstead. In addition, the library provides access to several collections including People of the Founding Era and Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen.

Letters, diaries and other primary sources from two rural counties -- one in Pennsylvania, the other in Virginia -- during the American Civil War.

Full text of American newspapers from colonial times to the 1920's. Also known as Early American Newspapers. From Readex.

American Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

Comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 20,000 American and global newspapers from 1704 to the present, including over 400 African American newspapers. This database is an invaluable resource for exploring social justice issues, equity, race, and related topics.

This archive contains digitized audio and transcripts for more than one thousand episodes of three radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979-1988), the weekly Spanish-language Panorama Hispano (1984-1987), and the daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990). The programs focus on Latinx issues related to politics, sociology, human rights, the arts and more with interviews of key figures and news reporting by Latinx journalists.

This robust collection of 19th and 20th century Hispanic American newspapers features hundreds of titles including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. It is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a national research effort directed by Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. This database includes content in both Spanish and English.