American Studies

Provides insight into the US consumer boom of the mid-20th century via the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era's foremost consumer analyst, market research pioneer, and recognized "Father of motivational research." Covers a wide range of prominent companies, including Pepsi-Cola, the Ford Motor Company, and General Motors. Contains significant market reports and an ad gallery that reproduces magazine advertisements and advertising brochures.

Sourced from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library, coverage spans 400 years and includes topics such as: early encounters between American Indians and Europeans; American Indians and colonial powers, and later, the US government; the Indigenous peoples of Mexico; conflict, wars, and military contact; the fur trade and Indian traders; education and American Indian boarding schools; and the civil rights movement and political activism. It is cross-searchable with American West.

Chronicles the development of America across 200 years, from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Features over 1,500 full- text, full-image periodicals, ranging from America's first scientific journal (Medical Repository) to popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

Sourced from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Consists of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral materials (e.g., wanted posters, claim certificates, news-sheets, etc.); records of key railroad companies; and papers of early pioneers, explorers, and hunters. Canada and the Pacific Northwest are well-documented; coverage includes accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape. Cross-searchable with American Indian Histories and Cultures.

Contains 7 collections of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents, and ephemera printed in America from approximately 1690 to 1922:
1. America's Historical Imprints (1639-1820)
2. America's Historical Newspapers, Series 1 to 3
3. African American Newspapers (1827-1998)
4. American State Papers (1789-1838)
5. U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980)
6. House and Senate Journals (1789-1817)
7. Journals of the House of Representatives and Senate (1789-1817)

Contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. Subscribed content includes collections compiled by top scholars and experts; exhaustively covers critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century. Subject collections include: Afghanistan, the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, South Africa, the Soviet Union, and the Vietnam War.

Subtitle: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment. Assembled from hundreds of sources, the collection documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. Focuses on personal accounts, and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials. Document types includes published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.

Outstanding resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Comprises thousands of fully-searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides that address political, social, and gender issues; religion; race; education; employment; marriage; sexuality; home and family life; health; and pastimes. Especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature.

Includes the complete Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) files 7 and FCO 82 from Great Britain's National Archives, and features top-level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers. Also includes a wealth of material on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture, and the environment. Valuable in providing a British, European, and Commonwealth perspective on Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, and the controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers that culminated in Watergate and his impeachment.

Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to Canada and America. Contains over 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Coverage begins around around 1840 and extends to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1890 to 1920.

Essential resource for serious scholarly research into the history of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canada's First Nations. Contains over 100,000 pages of text, much of which is previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. Integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.

Largest digital collection of women’s diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Contains approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. Draws on over 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database. Complements British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries.

Part I includes pamphlets, letters, government files, and eye witness accounts of key events; underground magazines including OZ and IT; and a rich collection of American fanzines and alternative press titles. Part II includes artist files, record company documents, chart lists, and posters from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; press kits and lobby cards for movies and television; the complete run of Gandalf’s Garden magazine; and video footage of key pop culture personalities.

This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. For most titles, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files. The database is an ongoing project.

Brings the 1960s to life through diaries, letters, autobiographies, memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Themes include: civil rights, counter-culture, mass and underground media, sexual revolution, student activism, the Vietnam War, and women's rights.

Currently includes 116 document projects and archives, with 4,700 documents and more than 160,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,450 primary authors. Also includes book, film, and website reviews; notes from the archives; and teaching tools.