United States Studies

Key Databases

The best first place to go if you're looking for research materials in this discipline.

America, history and life

Indexing and abstracts covering United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Index goes back to 1964.

Government Documents

Public documents masterfile - A comprehensive electronic guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanni...
ProQuest Congressional - Indexes information produced by or pertaining to the United States Congress from 1789 to the present...
GPO. US Government Publications - Use GPO to search for U.S. government documents. GPO comprises the U.S. GPO (Government Printing Off...
Digital National Security Archive - Database contains 15 complete collections of declassified documents: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958...
Declassified documents reference system - The database provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government docume...

Digital Primary Sources

Accessible Archives full-text databases - Accessible Archives includes the following collections: African American Newspapers, African America...
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 - "Consists of a large variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections...
Popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 - This resource contains digitizations of popular culture collections from the U.S. and U.K. between 1...
North American women's letters and diaries - North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) is a full-text database of the personal experienc...
Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000 - This database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliogr...
America's historical newspapers - Web-based archive of Americana that features images and full-text content from many historical newsp...
African American communities - Electronic reproduction of materials from the Southern Historical Collection in the Library of the U...
American history, 1493-1945 - This resource brings together materials on American history from the time of the earliest settlers u...
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America - The wide range of material included in Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America presents a...
American West - The Graff Collection, consisting of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material (trade cards, wan...
Colonial America - "Colonial America consists of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at ...
Confidential print. North America, 1824-1961 - The collection covers a broad sweep of history from c.1824-1961, taking in the USA, Canada, the Cari...
Everyday life & women in America - This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural...
Frontier life - "There is a large array of document types published on this site including correspondence, diaries, ...
First World War - The Visual perspectives and narratives section showcases material from the Imperial War Museum in Lo...
Jewish life in America, c1654-1954 - Contains full-color, full-text searchable digitized primary source materials on the history of Jewis...
Market research and American business reports, 1935-1965 - This database is a source for American consumption history as well as the history of transnational m...
Migration to new worlds - Migration to New Worlds: The Modern Era begins with the activities of the New Zealand Company during...
Nixon years, 1969-1974 - Top level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers dominate this project. There is also a weal...
Popular medicine in America, 1800-1900 - Electronic reproduction of materials documenting the history of popular remedies and treatments in 1...
Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007 - Digital facsimiles of printed and manuscript materials relevant to trans-Atlantic slavery and abolit...
Victorian popular culture - An essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth c...
Virginia Company archives - This collection provides a rich source for the study of trade between Britain and America. It docume...