History

This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.

This collection offers more than 1,000 materials from the late 19th to the early 20th century-- the end of Reconstruction through the first World War. Curated from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s acclaimed collection Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922, this collection covers many topical categories such as the growing body of work by African American writers; the portrayal of African Americans in art and literature; religion; race; early histories of slavery; the Civil War; Reconstruction; and others.

This collection offers more than 1,400 materials from the mid 1860s to the early 1880s -- the end of the Civil War to Jim Crow. Curated from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s acclaimed collection Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922, this collection covers many topical categories such as Reconstruction by state; works by African- American writers on race, slavery, and civil rights; the portrayal of African Americans in the Arts; early histories of the Civil War and slavery; and others.

An index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for over 1,935 journals from as far back as 1880. It includes over 165 Open Access journals.

This streaming video database includes content from the 1890s to the 1980s, such as the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel as well as hundreds of documentaries from leading video content producers such as PBS, California Newsreel, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, and others. With more than 7,900 titles and over 1,600 total hours of streaming video content, American History in Video provides historical analysis and contemporaneous footage covering a broad collection of key moments in American history.

Cambridge Core is the home of academic content from Cambridge University Press. The collection includes access to nearly one million articles and more than 300 books covering a wide variety of subjects. In addition, users can access more than 100 Cambridge Elements - original, concise, authoritative, and peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific research, organised into focused series edited by leading scholars, and providing comprehensive coverage of the key topics in disciplines spanning the arts and sciences.

The Indigenous Peoples of North America Archive has been crafted with the guidance of an advisory board to support research into the history of indigenous peoples from the sixteenth century into the twentieth century, through a diverse range of document types ranging from newspapers to census records. Part I provides users with a robust set of resources that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada. This module will help researchers to explore the impact of invasion and colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge. Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882-1986 provides much of the record of the efforts of the first such organization to address Native American interests and rights.

This database covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and others. This authoritative database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. There are over 800,000 records, full-text of more than 349 journals, and more than 120 books.

The autobiographical sketches in this collection demonstrate the profound achievements of African Americans across virtually all fields and aspects of American life, including science, the arts and entertainment, politics, literature, the military, and the academy. The video database currently contains over 2,600 interviews (nearly 10,000 hours of interview footage).

Periodicals Archive Online is an archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full-text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.

Women’s Studies International, covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies and scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business, and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.

This collection contains over 246,000 eBooks on a wide variety of academic subject matter.

eBook Central is a collection of nearly 250,000 academic e-books on a wide variety of subjects.

A multidisciplinary research database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.

Taylor & Francis eBooks offers approximately 100,000 full-text resources including content published within the past year.

This collection features 173 periodicals spanning from 1829 through 1922.  In addition to newspapers and magazines, the texts include reports and annuals from various African American organizations, including churches and educational and service institutions.

This collection from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) contains five series of full-text periodicals covering all aspects of American life.

• Series 1 (1691 - 1820): Presents over 500 titles from 1691 through 1820. Representing over two centuries of print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic.
• Series 2 (1821 - 1837): Presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. The subject matter covered in Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history. It is broad in scope and includes coverage of agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.
• Series 3 (1838 - 1852): Presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. The themes presented in Series 3 reveal a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities.
• Series 4 (1853 - 1865): Presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, there is also a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war.
• Series 5 (1866 - 1877): Presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. The themes presented in Series 5 reflect a nation following the Civil War, emancipation, and westward expansion.

Archives Unbound includes more than 20 collections of primary source documents related to the Civil Rights Movement.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries covering the history of the slave trade. The collection is made up of four parts:

• Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition
• Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
• Part III: The Institution of Slavery
• Part IV: Age of Emancipation

Includes index and full-text of Harper's Weekly. Coverage: 1857-1877.

**This resource is only available on campus**

History Vault: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle contains the following collections:

• NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files; 
• NAACP Papers: Branch Files and Youth Department Files; 
• NAACP Papers: Special Subjects; 
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment and Armed Forces; 
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files; 
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses.

History Vault: Women's Studies contains the following collections:

• Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990
• Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights

This collection provides access to more than 4,000 U.S. news sources, including current coverage and archives back to the 1980s. The platform draws from national, regional, and local news content, including access to more than 70 Virginia news sources, such as The Virginian-Pilot and Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Historical newspaper archive covering 1909 - 2010.

Historical newspaper archive covering 1916 - 2003.

Updated daily, the Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection includes the following:

• A text archive 1985 - current
• Images of each paper from 2018 - current
• Blogs 2006 - 2019
• Web Edition Articles 2015 - current

Updated daily, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) Newspaper Collection includes the following resources:

• A text archive from 1990 - current
• Images of each paper from 2018 - current
• Blogs from 2006-2019
• Select video content available through links 2020 - current

Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS), formerly Virginia Heritage, is a consolidated database of finding aids that provides information about the vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in historical societies, libraries, museums, colleges, and universities across Virginia and West Virginia.