Organized by time period, this database contains timelines, photos, videos, speeches, letters other primary documents on African American history, plus well-written summaries called reference articles.
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.
Create an account to save searches, slideshows, and documents to refer to later with the "My Archive" feature.
Organized by time period, this database contains in-depth historical accounts and cultural information about the indigenous peoples of North America including timelines, photos, videos, speeches, primary sources, and summary reference articles.
One of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. Spanning four hundred years, document types include manuscripts, artworks, speeches, petitions, diaries and correspondence, linguistic and ethnographic studies, photographs, maps, rare printed books, and American Indian newspapers.
The collection is the source of Adam Matthew's American Indian Histories and Cultures Project.
Explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Contains a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork, and more.
Collection is the source of Adam Matthew's American West Project.
A full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. Features over 150 titles,1500 images, hundreds of primary documents, Spanish-language content, a timeline, and 225 vetted Web sites.
This database contains 130 document projects and document archives that present and interpret primary source documents. In addition, there are many other publications, including a biographical dictionary and an encyclopedia included.
Readers' Guide Retrospective provides all the information from 44 Readers’ Guide annuals in a single database and access to over 3 million articles from approximately 375 leading magazines; many of the articles are peer-reviewed.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century. Archival collections were sourced from more than 60 libraries at institutions such as the Amistad Research Center, Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Archives, Oberlin College, Oxford University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Yale University; these collections allow for unparalleled depth and breadth of content.
This collection contains all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. In addition, there are pamphlets and books with differing views about slavery.
This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them. European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved laborers to build the cities and extract the resources of the Americas. They forced millions of mostly unnamed Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, and from one part of the Americas to another.
