History Subject Guide

Written by African-Americans for African-Americans about cultural life and history during the 1800s. First-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, and early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera enable researchers to explore America's distant and not so distant past.

Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The over 36,000 items here contains the majority of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in America between 1639 and 1819. Series I and supplement is based on Charles Evans renowned American Bibliography while Series II and supplement makes available the items from American Bibliography 1801-1819 by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

Primary source collections currently available on JSTOR are multidisciplinary and discipline-specific and include select monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3D models, spatial data, type specimens, drawings, paintings, and more.

Provides online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, business, society and events of the time.

The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1693 to 1877. The collection was released in five series, all of which are searched simultaneously through this link.

Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically important periodicals.

Thousands of commentaries on African American, Hispanic American, Asian American and Native American history covering foreign reactions to America's struggles with racial justice from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights movements and beyond.

Premier archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States from the 19th century through the 20th century.

Standard source for quantitative facts on American history. Allows users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century.

First-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.

Beginning at the end of World War II and continuing through the Cold War period and beyond, tools of radioactive, chemical, and biological warfare played a role in many of the 20th centurys most significant events. From the Cuban missile crisis to the Gulf War, the development, proliferation, and containment of weapons of mass destruction shaped technology, international conflicts, politics, and more. Researchers in a variety of disciplines will find no more comprehensive resource for studying these issues than Nuclear Arms and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Has information on 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century. Users can search for particular voyages in this database of documented slaving expeditions and create listings, tables, charts, and maps using information from the database. Slaves on documented voyages represent four-fifths of the number who were actually transported.