American Studies: Frontiers

Gale In Context: U.S. History- see databases above- secondary and primary sources

ProQuest- Elibrary

JSTOR- academic journals

UCONN- see database above- Best Bets within the UConn databases below

America: History and Life Best Bet

Summarizes scholarly articles about the history of the United States and Canada. 1964-current.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) Best Bet

Virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere. 1475-1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Best Bet

Full-text of over 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Covers history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. 1701-1800.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text Best Bet

Provides selective indexing of historical articles from thousands of journals and books in a wide variety of languages. Coverage includes the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. 1955-current. .

New York Times Historical Best Bet

Full-image archive of The New York Times. Includes the full-text of everything published in the newspaper. 1851-2006.

American Indian Newspapers

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Includes articles from North American Indigenous newspapers from the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016.

Key Websites for General History

• American Presidency Project
  Includes papers, speeches, radio and TV broadcasts, and debates of American presidents, from Washington to the present.

• Fordham Internet History Sourcebook
  The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted primary source, historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

Key Websites for American History

• American Memory Project
  American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

• Documenting the American South
  Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

• Women in America, 1820-1842
  Travelogues of European visitors to the United States; focus on women's experiences

• Yale Indian Papers Project
  Exploring 400 years of New England Native American history, community, culture, sovereignty, land, gender, race, identity, migration, law, and politics.