HIST 730: Seminar in American History

Geographic focus: Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and North Carolina. Personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, oral histories, photographs, postcards, maps and ephemera.

Manuscripts, artwork, rare printed books, rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, historic maps, newspapers, photographs and travel journals. Browse to Thematic Areas for the Civil Rights Movement.

American Periodicals Series includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century (1741-1988). Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Terms of Use

A platform that allows searching across all of Gale primary source collections. Collections include: 19th Century UK Periodicals, The Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Indigenous Peoples: North America, Making of the Modern World, Ninteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana 1500-1926, and the Times Digital Archive

This collection searches a unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. The content includes letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays from libraries and archives in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. Over 15,000 items written by nearly 300 Black men and women are available for searching. Terms of Use

Archival materials (as well as books and periodicals) documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.

Articles, correspondence, and government records documenting 18th-20th centuries. Includes content from American Indians in the West, Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle, and Women's Studies.

A primary-source collection of original historical documents pertaining to Native American history, culture, and life from the 18th through the 20th centuries.

Autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files represent historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries is the largest electronic collection of women’s diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it presents the personal experiences of hundreds of women.

Document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.