History Subject Guide

The Library of Congress provides access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. [ more information ]

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Quantitative facts of American history. Topics range from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America.

Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.

Archive of declassified U.S. documents from the federal government, with collections organized by events.

This collection of databases covers the history of slavery and anti-slavery movements via primary source documents. Muskingum has access to four parts of the collection: Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; Part III: The Institution of Slavery; and Part IV: The Age of Emancipation.

A collection of primary source documents covering the history of the women's rights movement throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers. The collection is arranged in three series: 1741-1800, the period of transition from British colony to emerging nation; 1800-1850, pre-Civil War and the era of debate over slavery; and 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Page images and indexes to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

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.

Search New York Times articles up to 2002. Use to find articles, then request via Interlibrary Loan.

Millions of pages of material and tens of thousands of photographs, slides, maps, periodicals, audio, moving images, and books related to the Vietnam War, Indochina, and the impact of the war on the United States and Southeast Asia.

"A treasure of sources supporting LGBTQ research," the Archives of Sexuality and Gender research connects users with rare and unique primary source documents of the history of the LGBTQ movement.

A digitized collection of papers by Alexander Hamilton, from the Library of Congress.

The National Archives and Records Administrations maintains the documents that trace the evolution of the project to develop the bombs, to their use in 1945 and the aftermath.

This database contains 19th century newspapers from across the United States in both urban and rural settings, emphasizing the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration, the Antebellum era, and other subjects.