This collection of letters and diaries provides firsthand accounts from politicians, generals, soldiers, prisoners, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies. The authors are the famous and the unknown, giving both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers. Over 100,000 pages of source material indexed for easy searching. Includes 4,000 pages of facsimiles of previously unpublished manuscript material.

Over 440 hours and more than 1,400 titles of videos on various topics in American History. Sources include newsreels, government and commercial films, and significant documentaries. Researchers can find both contemporary films and works that analyze events long after they occurred.

Over 1,500 periodicals published in America between 1741 and 1941, covering specialized, literary, and general topics. Searchers can retrieve images of the pages, including all graphic elements and article layouts.

Personal accounts and unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes narratives, diaries, journals, and letters and documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. Includes maps and images.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains images of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from 1473-1700. An exhuastive source for those interested in the first books in English through the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare, and the English Civil War.

A collection of more than 80,000 declassified documents, comprising more than 500,000 pages on 31 different topics dealing with national security. Researchers can browse through collections or perform key word searching on the full text of documents. Bibliographies and chronologies have been added for context and further research.

Harper's Weekly was one of the leading literary and news publications of 19th century America. It was noted for its use of illustrations and carried information on a variety of topics to a national audience. Searchers can search the full text of articles and retrieve both images and text files of relevant stories.

Digitized version of the New York Times since its first issue in 1851. Patrons can search the full text of articles to find articles on a wide variety of topics.

Provides online access to the full-text of documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Sources include national and regional newspapers, wire services, and broadcast transcripts from around the world. Legal materials include federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information. Medical and business news and information is also available to users.

Personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories from 1840 to the present. Includes some audio files and facsimiles of personal scrapbooks. Primary source documents from immigrants who have come from virtually all over the world.

Historical resources on nearly 500 North American groups. Autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Also includes 2,000 oral histories presented in audio and transcript form and at least 20,000 photographs.

Letters and diaries detailing the personal lives and experiences hundreds of women spanning over 300 years. Includes over 1,500 biographies. Ideal for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, literature, genealogy, as well as other disciplines.

This complete digital collection from LexisNexis includes both the United States Congressional Serial Set and its predecessor, the American State Papers. These two titles cover a broad spectrum of topics addressed by Congress and the President from this country’s early history to recent times.

35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. World Music, Smithsonian Folkways, historical speeches, poets and authors reading their own works, an extensive children's collection (kindergarten through middle school).

Examines perspectives on women's social movements from colonial times to the present by bringing together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.