HST 120 Emergence of Modern America

Digitized primary sources spanning the humanities and social sciences, from medieval manuscripts to 20th century global politics.

Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. It's keyword searchable or browsable by title, genre, instruments, performers or ensembles, events or publishers

A collection of biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories from native and First people. The database represents the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America.

The collection includes material from women's diaries and letters from the 18th century through the 20th. Materials were chosen that illustrated the role and status of women, personal attitudes and reactions to specific historical or personal events or individuals, and descriptions that conveyed the life and times of the past. They provide a detailed record of what women wore, the conditions under which they worked, what they ate, what they read, and how they amused themselves.

Includes thousands of private writings and personal narratives. With Black Thought & Culture; British & Irish Women's Letters and Diaries; American Civil War: Letters and Diaries; North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories; North American Women's Letters and Diaries; and Oral History Online.

Web-based version of Harper's Weekly. Browse the literature in Harper's Weekly by genre, or the pages by date, or search the Index to Harper's Weekly. HarpWeek provides the searchable full-text of Harper's Weekly as an enhancement to the existing Thesaurus-based database. This searchable full-text database is an accurately typed facsimile of all of the text found within the pages of Harper's Weekly. The 56 years of Harpers Weekly provide a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912, conceptually broken into the Civil War Era, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1924 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.

The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.

Collection of archival records of the newspaper covering from 1851 to 2020. Can be searched using subject terms and topics, and covers the politics, society, and events of the time.