LibGuides: History: History Databases

History Databases

African American Experience - American Mosaic This link opens in a new window
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.
American Indian Experience - American Mosaic This link opens in a new window
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.
Ayer Collection: American Indian & Indigenous Peoples This link opens in a new window
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.
Graff Collection: US Western Expansion This link opens in a new window
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.
HeritageQuest Online This link opens in a new window
HeritageQuest® Online combines digital, searchable images of US federal census records with the digitized version of the popular ProQuest Genealogy & Local History Collection and other valuable content. Powered by Ancestry® with more than 4.4 billion records and coverage dating back to the 1700s.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni features the following: 1. Thousands of news sources from all over the world. 2. Legal court cases and law reviews 3. Company dossiers and information. Replaces LexisNexis Academic.
Women and Social Movements 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new window
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.