Indexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. 

This collection contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries covering all aspects of American history.

Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from 1741 through 1940.

Asian Life in America is the most comprehensive digital collection of primary source documents from and about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage—including Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, Vietnamese, and many others. It provides diverse perspectives from more than 35 million primary source documents in 41 languages and has coverage from 1704 to the present.

Access over 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major African American leaders, teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers and other figures covering 250 years of history.

Provides an integrated approach to the history and culture of the United States by focusing on problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplines. It features broad synthetic articles and bibliographies covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. As a comprehensive reference, it offers research and study support for a wide range of disciplines.

Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses in America from 1959 to present.

This primary source collection focuses on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media. It spans the early Spanish settlements of the 18th century to the modern era. Articles, blogs, videos, audio recordings and more are sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.

Search sources from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library dating from the 1500s through the 1990s.  Materials range from maps to manuscripts to newspapers and cover all of North America. 

Indexes the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship both inside and outside of academia. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)