History (Primary Resources)


Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950

This collection of primary source materials from the Wiener Library and The National Archives of the UK and covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War Two. Among the topics included are refugee camps, Jewish orphans, and the British military in Germany.

Presidential Recordings Digital Edition

This online portal provides access to recordings and annotated transcripts of telephone conversations of Presidents Johnson, Kennedy, and Nixon. There are also photos, videos, an interactive timeline, and the ability to search all included content.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global is a premier archival resource offering access to over 200 digitized newspapers from the U.S., Canada, and around the world, presented in their original print format. Key databases and collections include the U.S. Metro Collection, U.S. Collection, Black Newspaper Collection, Canada Collection, International Collection, and U.S. Jewish Newspaper Collection.

ProQuest history vault

History Vault provides access to millions of primary sources, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. The themes of the collections include; American Indians and the American West, Southern Life & Slavery, Latinx History, Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle, and Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals.

ProQuest One Anthropology

ProQuest One Anthropology is a comprehensive digital resource that offers access to a vast collection of ethnographic primary sources—including field notes, manuscripts, films, and audio recordings—documenting over 1,000 cultural groups. It includes the following components: Anthropological Fieldwork Online, Anthropology Online, Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods, Ethnographic Video Online: Volumes I–IV, Ethnographic Video Online: Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition, Ethnographic Sound Archives Online, American Philosophical Institute (ACLS Collection), Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, and Victor Witter Turner Papers.

ProQuest One Black Studies

ProQuest One Black Studies’ core databases are Black Studies Center, The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Black Literature Index, and 13 Historical Black Newspapers including the Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, and Baltimore Afro-American. The platform also features archival collections, videos, and scholarly journals covering the Black experience from the 18th century to the present.

ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture

ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture is an archive of magazines, film scripts, comics, videos, and advice literature that covers over 150 years of content spanning music, film, television, gaming, fashion, and youth culture. Key databases and collections include Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Film Scripts Online, The Rolling Stone Archive, The Hollywood Reporter Archive, Underground and Independent Comics, The World of Archie Comics Archive, and Twentieth Century Advice Literature.

ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations

ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations provides access to primary and secondary sources on global issues from the 18th century to today. Among the materials included are the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA), and 95 thematic collections such as Border and Migration Studies Online, Environmental Issues Online, Human Rights Studies Online, and Revolution and Protest Online.

ProQuest One History

ProQuest One History provides access to primary sources spanning from 1450 to the present. It includes major databases such as Early English Books Online (EEBO), Early European Books (EEB), ProQuest History Vault, British Periodicals, and American Periodicals Series. 

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design is a comprehensive resource that supports the fields of art, design, architecture, and fashion by integrating rare primary sources, scholarly journals, multimedia, and specialist indexes. Key databases and collections include ARTbibliographies Modern, Design & Applied Arts Index, Art & Architecture Archive, Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library, Vogue Archive, and Women’s Wear Daily.