History Resources
Our Online Resources
Gale In Context: U.S History
Supports U.S. history studies and provides an overview of our nation's past, covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
Supports U.S. history studies and provides an overview of our nation's past, covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
Gale In Context: World History
Provides an overview of world history, covering the most-studied events, cultures, civilizations, religions, people, and more.
Provides an overview of world history, covering the most-studied events, cultures, civilizations, religions, people, and more.
Boston Public Library Online Resources
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Archives Unbound: A diverse collection of mostly U.S. primary source and historical materials, including city and business directories for southern states, miscellaneous county & regional histories and atlases, Civil War reports, newspapers, and narratives, the archives of the Federal Writers’ Project (1933-1943), and some Canadian and Irish historical materials.
HistoryMakers: The HistoryMakers records and preserves video oral history interviews highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups and movements.
The Listener Historical Archive (1929-1991): Weekly transcripts of BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) radio and television programs, representing the only record of many early broadcasts and including coverage of contemporary events as well as intellectual, literary, and musical topics.
Making of the Modern World: Over 62,000 searchable books, pamphlets, periodicals, essays, and primary source documents illustrating the development of the economic world system from the 15th-20th centuries, including coverage of trade, banking, finance, transportation, manufacturing, political science, history, philosophy, and sociology.
Sabin Americana (1500-1926): Searchable reproductions of 29,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, and other documents about the Americas, providing original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, westward expansion, Native Americans, military actions, and much more.
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: Primary sources on the transatlantic slave trade and the global abolitionist movement, including contemporary books and periodicals, British, Spanish, and American colonial and legal records, manuscripts, correspondence, the papers of abolitionist organizations, and other materials from the collections of research institutions around the world. Includes essays, chronologies, reference and biographical articles, and bibliographies to support and contextualize the primary source material.
Slavery in America and the World: Primary and secondary legal and historical materials on the institution of slavery, primarily in the United States and the English-speaking world. Includes every relevant colony, state, and federal statute and all reported state and federal cases on slavery, as well as historical and current periodical articles and commentaries, book reviews, and an extensive bibliography of additional print and electronic sources.
