Research Guides: HIST 5236/HUMN 5236 War & Film: Other Digital Collections

U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window
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Full text House and Senate publications from the 15th - 96th Congress (1817-1980)

For more primary source databases, see the History subject guide.

American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Full text of American magazines, journals, and newspapers that began publication between 1740-1940; coverage ends in June 1943; includes page view
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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1851-2015; includes page view
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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1889-2001; full text of the Eastern edition; includes page view

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
The Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) partners with communities, publishers, and institutions to promote standards-based digitization of Texas newspapers and to make them freely accessible via The Portal to Texas History.

Yale University, Primary Sources Search Strategies
Provides an overview of adaptable search strategies for catalogs, databases, and citation tracing.
USC Libraries, Primary Sources Search Strategies
Offers strategies for conducting pre-research on a topic, limiting keyword searching to the relevant time period, and using descriptive primary source keywords to find primary sources.

More Digital Collections

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
NARA preserves historically valuable archives of the U.S. government, including documents, photographs, images, maps, audio clips, letters, speeches, and films.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
"...prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more" with over 180,000 high resolution, public domain images available to download

Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
Digitized collection of historical books, photographs, maps, posters, and more representing American society’s cultural heritage

Umbra Search: African American History
685,857 items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums. Includes searchable access to a wide variety of media and formats, primary sources, and secondary sources from several eras.

An aerial reconnaissance photograph of Aushwitz, 1944-1945. Photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park.
Copyright: Public domain. Retrieved from
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1089470.

Digital Collections

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Historical Documents
Digitized collection consisting of forty-one volumes of documents (plus supplements) on diplomatic history of the U.S. in the twentieth century. Volumes are organized by region and date. The collection includes a useful search engine.
The National Archives of Great Britain, Online Collections
Digitized collections on British History, from the medieval period through the twentieth century.