AMST 242: American Reckonings

Searchable full-text of more than 1,000 historical U.S. newspapers. The core of this database is Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922, searchable along with African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, and Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971.

Searchable full-text facsimiles of over 1,110 American periodicals from colonial times to the turn of the 20th century.

270 newspapers published in 36 states, including rare 19th-century titles.

More than 170 academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres, by and about African Americans.

Nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.

Search for historical articles in a variety of major American and British newspapers. Comprised of the following titles, which can also be searched individually: Boston Globe, 1872-1989; Chicago Defender, 1909-1975; Chicago Tribune, 1849-1997; Guardian and the Observer (UK), 1791-2003; Los Angeles Times, 1881-1996; New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993; New York Times, 1851-2016; and Washington Post, 1877-2003

Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

HathiTrust is a preservation archive with more than 17 million digitized items.

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Over 60,000 primary source documents including correspondence, diaries, government documents, business records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, artwork and maps, documenting American history.

Documents relating to American Indian history in the US, Canada and Mexico, including treaties, speeches and diaries, historic maps and travel journals, and artwork.

Features printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more, documenting westward expansion in America from the early-18th to the mid-20th century.

The material covering North America covers the varied frontier regions from fur trappers in Canada to cowboys in Texas and government in Baja California. It is divided into the frontier regions of the American East, the American Midwest, the American Southwest, California & Mexico and Canada.

Documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world, with close attention given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

Premier international collection of digitized material (1543-1988) on the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.

Searchable database of 150,000 pages of letters and diaries, drawn from journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings.

Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.

Personal letters, scrapbooks, and autobiographies, as well as papers and records of organizations, showing the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, whilst tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.