Subject guides: History: United States

16th to 18th Century

Early American Imprints Series 1, Digital Evans (1639-1800)
Full text of 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in America between 1639-1800.

A companion to America’s Historical Newspapers, (Early American Newspapers 1690-1876) - hundreds of historical newspapers via a timeline-based interface. Includes the complete contents of every newspaper.

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Early American Newspapers 1690-1876
Search and browse American newspapers published across three centuries. Includes thousands of titles from all 50 states.
Colonial State Papers via Proquest
Primary documents for the study of early America - English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Indigenous Peoples of North America
The collection database covers the history of American Indian tribes.
Sabin Americana, 1500–1926
Encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century.
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Virginia Company Archives
A key source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period, & London's economic history in the Early Modern era. It documents: the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624; the role of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas; trade between Britain and America; the ethnic and gender composition of early Virginia; tensions amongst the colonists; and early relations with Native Americas.

It documents: the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624; the role of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas; trade between Britain and America; the ethnic and gender composition of early Virginia; tensions amongst the colonists; and early relations with Native Americas.

Library of Congress Digital Collections
A massive collection of primary sources from all periods of US history - for free!
Chronicling America
America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963
National Museum of American History
Home to more than 1.8 million objects and more than three shelf-miles of archival collections, including a remarkable array of American history in documents, photographs, and other works, including major holdings on the histories of American business and music.

19th to 21st Century

American Civil Liberties Union Papers
American Civil Liberties Union Papers gives researchers access to the more than 2 million documents contained in the records of the American Civil Liberties Union at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript library at Princeton University.
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American Consumer Culture, Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 via Adam Matthew
Develop a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the market research reports and supporting documents of Ernest Dichter's Institute of Motivational Research; the era's market research pioneer. Good for researchers of marketing, business, consumer culture, and psychology.
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China, America and the Pacific via Adam Matthew
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.
Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920 via Adam Matthew
Using primary sources, this documents the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of Americans from 1800 to 1920. Includes strong coverage of prescriptive literature and manuals for domestic management.
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Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 via Adam Matthew
Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 provides resources on the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports Ernest Dichter.
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S
Contains primary source images and documents directly from the Smithsonian archives and Gale’s leading digital collections.
Victorian Popular Culture: Sensation, Spiritualism and Magic & Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks, & Music Hall, Theatre, and Popular Entertainment
An archive of original materials for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Women and Social Movements (1840 - present)
An archive of primary materials and research which profiles the work and lives of women activists, and reveals how women's social movements have shaped modern attitudes about poverty, child labour, literacy, disease prevention, and global inequality.

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Women's Magazine Archive via Proquest (1883 - 2005)
Leading U.S and Canadian women’s interest consumer magazines Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and Parents. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

Government Documents

Congressional Record Archive 1989 to present
Browse by date or view the index from 1995+

DNSA: Digital National Security Archive (1945 - present)
De-classified U.S. government documents organised into collections covering world events and U.S policy from WWII onwards. Accompanied by chronologies, and scholarly overviews. Contents

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HeinOnline
Full-text legal journals and other legal documents predominantly US, also includes major international publications and some Australian Law reviews. Also includes English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) and US Reports (1754 - 2007)

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Full text legislation, caselaw, journal articles primarily from the U.S., also including Europe, U.K and Australasia.

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National Security Archive
Free documents in the NSA, one of the world's largest non governmental library of declassified documents. It includes the Torture Archive and thousands of declassified documents on US foreign, economic and military policy since 1945, as well as

U.S. Declassified Documents Online
U.S. Declassified Documents Online contains materials from the State Department political analyses, White House confidential file materials, National Security Council policy statements, CIA intelligence memoranda, and much more.
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Primary Sources in Print and Online

These are just some of the published materials available in print on the shelves.

The Library contains an excellent set of United States Government Publications. They are comprehensively listed on the Government Subject Guide. It also a lists more recent electronic materials.

Annals of America, 1493 - 1968.
A collection of government documents, writings, speeches, articles, songs and poems from the period, 20 volumes.
Black abolitionist papers
v. 1. The British Isles, 1830-1865 -- v. 2. Canada, 1830-1865 -- v. 3. The United States, 1830-1846 -- v. 4. The United States, 1847-1858. -- v. 5. The United States, 1859-1865.
Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New-York
15 volumes.
Original narratives of early American history
19 volumes.

[1] The Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, 985-1503 -- [2] Early English and French voyages, chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 / edited by Henry S. Burrage -- [3] Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543 -- [4] Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 / edited by W.L. Grant -- [5] Narratives of early Virginia, 1606-1625 / edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler -- [6] Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, 1606-1646 / edited by William T. Davis -- [7-8] Winthrop's journal : "History of New England," 1630-1649 / edited by James Kendall Hosmer -- [9] Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 / edited by J. Franklin Jameson -- [10] Johnson's Wonder-working providence, 1628-1651 / edited by J. Franklin Jameson --[11] Narratives of early Maryland, 1633-1684 / edited by Clayton Colman Hall -- [12] Narratives of Early Carolina, 1650-1708 / edited by Alexander S. Salley, jr. -- [13] Narratives of early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 / edited by Albert Cook Myers -- [14] Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675-1699 / edited by Charles H. Lincoln -- [15] Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 / edited by Bartlett Burleigh James and J. Franklin Jameson -- [16] Narratives of the witchcraft cases, 1648-1706 / edited by George Lincoln Burr -- [17] Narratives of the insurrections, 1675-1690 / edited by Charles M. Andrews -- [18] Spanish exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706 / edited by Herbert Eugene Bolton -- [19] Early narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699 / edited by Louise Phelps Kellogg.
Publications of the Hudson's Bay Record Society
Records dealing mainly with the most active periods of the Company's history: 1670-1680 and 1820-1840.
The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791
The original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations and notes, 73 volumes.
The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies
Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War, 1880-1900. 130 volumes.

Primary Sources in Microform

These are just some of the rich archival materials reproduced onto microfilm and fiche available in Fisher Audiovisual.

Abolition & Emancipation
Call Number: Fisher Audiovisual Microform 326.8 10
Pt. 1. Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce from the Huntington Library. Pt. 4. Granville Sharp papers from Gloucestershire Record Office.
Pt. 5. Papers of Thomas Clarkson from the British Library, London. 68 reels.
American Culture Series, 1493-1875
A microfilm collection of early books and pamphlets. ACS I covers 1493 to 1806, while ACS II extends to 1875.
Afro-American history series ; AA-4 - 50
Microfiche collection