Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. Includes biographies, events and topics, primary sources, timelines, images and videos, maps and charts. All full text.
Online encyclopedia of the history of women in the United States.
Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States. Includes biographies, events and topics, primary sources, time-lines, images and videos, maps and charts. All full text.
Collection of reference works on American government, current affairs, politics and public policy.
Contains resources on American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and data analysis for the social sciences. Individual resources available in the Library include the following: CQ Almanac; CQ Researcher Plus Archives; CQ Weekly; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; and the Supreme Court Yearbook.
Archive of full-text scholarly journal articles in a broad range of academic disciplines.
Coverage includes the full text from volume 1, number 1 through the current date in some cases or, more often, up to a period of embargo from six months to five years depending on the arrangements with the title's vendor.
Articles, papers and reports on international public affairs topics.
PAIS (originally, the Public Affairs Information Service) was established in 1914 with several similar databases which over the years have been merged to create the current version. The PAIS International database contains continually updated records for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and other languages. It is updated quarterly with over 17,000 current records added in total each year.
Archives of searchable historical primary source materials. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Accessible Archives makes available vast quantities of archived historical information, not previously furnished available online. Primary source materials have been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy. Online full-text search capabilities and digital imaging permits the user to search and manipulate this information in ways never before possible.
Primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Primary source documents from the eighteenth century. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
The essential digital resource for researching the 18th Century, ECCO, contains over 184,000 English and Foreign Language titles printed in The United Kingdom in the 18th Century, including thousands of works from the Americas.
Three hundred multidisciplinary resources providing access to thousands of primary source documents, including archival collections, government documents, periodicals, newspapers, and video. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Provides access to a broad range of previously classified U.S. federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Includes over 700,000 of the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies.
Covers major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.
Online archive of newspaper articles published in and books during the U.S. Civil War.
Contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies.
Online access to back issues of The Washington Post, 1877-1999.
Includes PDF images of nearly all content published in the Washington Post from the beginning, 1877, through 1997. Search the Washington Post Current edition for information after this end date.
A non-profit and non-partisan large public database of presidential documents available on the internet, hosted at the University of California - Santa Barbara.
Background information on each of the U.S. Presidents. From the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia specializing in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history.
A collaboration of Stanford University and the University of Michigan, with funding by the National Science Foundation. Conducts surveys and analysis on on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
CSPC is an non-partisan, non-profit organization that seeks to promote leadership in the US Presidency and Congress. Reports on current and historical civic and political issues
Data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, particularly in the U.S. Emphasis on state, county, and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the U.S.
Independent regulatory agency that administers and enforces federal campaign finance law. Provides legal resources and Presidential campaign information.
Party platforms beginning in 1840, inaugural addresses since 1789, public papers since 1929, signing statements, state of the union addresses, etc. (hosted by University of California, Santa Barbara)
Selected video biopics of 14 Presidential Contenders, who lost the Presidential Elections but who played a significant role in influencing the direction of the government and the country.
A series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. Originally published anonymously in various newspapers to urge New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution.
Data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, particularly in the U.S. Emphasis on state, county, and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the U.S.
A collaboration of Stanford University and the University of Michigan, with funding by the National Science Foundation. Conducts surveys and analysis on on voting, public opinion, and political participation.