Databases
Highly comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America.
Comprehensive coverage of more than 2,000 journals and the Congressional Record.
Complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, constitutions for every country in the world, classic books from the 18th & 19th centuries, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register and CFR from inception.
Comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps.
Newspaper digital archive of many significant U.S. and some international newspapers dating back to the 18th Century.
Multidisciplinary resources providing access to thousands of primary source documents, including archival collections, government documents, periodicals, newspapers, and video.
Archival collections documenting topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
Subjects include African American studies, women’s studies, history, political science, military and diplomatic history, immigration.
Web Resources
United States' largest African American video oral history collection, containing oral history interviews with historically significant African Americans.
Please see this guide's Native American Studies page.
In addition to the resources integrated throughout this page, please see the Africana Studies page of this guide.
Databases
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.
Web Resources
Databases
Archives of searchable historical primary source materials. Note: This content has moved to the History Commons platform, but still contains the Accessible Archives collections subscribed to by Rowan University.
Online Collections
Databases
Online Collections
Databases
Provides access to a broad range of previously classified U.S. federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Includes 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.
Web Resources
Databases
Online Collections
(Also see Africana Studies Primary Sources)
(Also see Women & Gender Studies Primary Sources)