History: Article Databases

Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present

Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present

Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, including 118 periodicals published during the Civil War.

The definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Contains information on more than four million soldiers and thousands of battles. Includes photographs, regimental rosters, and officer profiles.

Collection of digitized text and images from 17th and 18th century America.

Offers more than 200 significant 18th and 19th-century newspapers, with a focus on the period between 1820 and 1860.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Contains more than 32,000 items written in Europe about the Americas, including exploration, portrayals of Native Americans, natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, and slavery.

Spanning from 1865 to 1902, The Gilded Age provides insight into the key issues that shaped America in the late nineteenth century, including race and ethnicity, immigration, labor, women's rights, American Indians, political corruption, and monetary policy.

Quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history

Articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. NOTE: In many cases, articles from the last 3-5 years are NOT available due to publisher copyright restrictions.

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible well into the future. The HathiTrust Digital Library includes millions of digitized book titles, most of which were published before 1923.