U.S. History Research Guide

Indexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Coverage includes history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. Some current issues are available now.

Is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Includes books and journals.

Historical Abstracts covers modern world history (excluding the United States and Canada which are covered in America: History and Life) from 1450 to the present.

A collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. Includes Congressional Hearings. Coverage 1789-present.

Law review journals including the United Nations Law Collection and United States Code. 

Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that include: Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984; Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama; Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia; America in Protest: Record of Anti-Vietnam War organizations; We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961; American Relocation Camp Newspapers; Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons, 1936-1945; Jewish Underground Resistance; Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress.

Primary sources covering the most significant political events of the year. 1972-2009.

Homeland Security related documents from a variety of sources including, federal, state and non-government.

Literature & the literary arts, philosophy, the arts, history, culture, and creative thought. Journal articles, books, and other sources from around the world.

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military, trade publications, and news weeklies.

This database covers topics across all government and military branches. It includes over 550 titles dating back to the early 1990's.

Published letters and diaries depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Colonial times to 1950.

Indexes general-interest American magazines. Covers 1892-1983. Some content will be online in other databases. Use Journal Finder to check for full text access.

The world’s leading citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, primary source for the study American history and the U.S. judicial system.

Scholarly full-text journals and peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of subjects. 1975 to present.

General reference database from business and political science to literature and psychology scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and daily news content, accessible to readers and researchers at every level.