Articles & Databases

Key Resources in History

America: History and Life
Citations to the literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the early 20th century.  [More about America: History and Life] 

Historical Abstracts
World history and culture citation-and-abstract database. [More about Historical Abstracts] 

JSTOR
Multidisciplinary journal collection, including the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.  [More about JSTOR] 

Mountain West Digital Library
Easy-to-use search portal for finding online text, images, and sound files from libraries and archives in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. [More about Mountain West Digital Library] 

WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content with more than 2 billion records for books, CD, DVD, audio books, some articles, documents, photographs, digital collections, etc. [More about WorldCat] 

Additional Resources in History

Accessible Archives
This database provides access to vast quantities of diverse primary source materials, including newspapers, magazines, books, and American county histories, reflecting broad views across American history and culture across the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. [More about Accessible Archives ] 

Accessible Archives: Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1800
Historical newspaper in full text. [More about Accessible Archives: Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1800] 

ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection
ACLS Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 3,300 books of high quality in the humanities. [More about ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection] 

Acta Sanctorum
Encyclopedic Latin text examining the lives of Christian saints, organized by each saint's feast day. [More about Acta Sanctorum] 

Adam Matthew Collections
Use this platform to select and cross-search within multiple Adam Matthew archival collections. [More about Adam Matthew Collections] 

Adam Matthew: American Indian Histories and Cultures
Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books from the earliest contact with European settlers to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century, with a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, and historic maps and travel journals. [More about Adam Matthew: American Indian Histories and Cultures] 

Adam Matthew: American Indian Newspapers
American Indian Newspapers is a database providing newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era, with nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. [More about Adam Matthew: American Indian Newspapers] 

Adam Matthew: American West: Everett D. Graff Collection of the Newberry Library
Original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources documenting the US West. [More about Adam Matthew: American West: Everett D. Graff Collection of the Newberry Library] 

Adam Matthew: Early Modern England: Society, Culture & Everyday Life, 1500-1700
Primary source documents covering the everyday lived experience in England from 1500-1700 and includes legal records, family correspondence, administrative records, wills, inventories and commonplace books, and images of everyday objects used in early modern households. [More about Adam Matthew: Early Modern England: Society, Culture & Everyday Life, 1500-1700] 

Adam Matthew: Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
Provides digital access to documents relating to the evolution of British and American working class tourism from the mid-1800s through to the 1980s, covering destinations in Britain, the United States, and Europe with special attention to seaside resorts, cultural tours and National Parks, also documents the growth of travel agencies along with the importance of transport networks for tourism development. [More about Adam Matthew: Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism] 

Adam Matthew: Race Relations in America
This archival collection from Fisk University’s Race Relations Department documents three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, and showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, and Thurgood Marshall. [More about Adam Matthew: Race Relations in America] 

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
African American Newspapers provides online access to more than 350 US newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. [More about African American Newspapers, 1827-1998] 

America's Historical Imprints
Full-text and full-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States from 1639 to 1819. [More about America's Historical Imprints] 
Use the Evans Text Creation Partnership interface for full text searching of the Evans/Series I titles.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
This database provides digital access to a comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. [More about American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection] 

American History in Video
Features 6,000 video titles with searchable transcripts synchronized to video. [More about American History in Video] 

American Periodicals Series Online
Full text database ranging from 1740 to 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and other historically significant periodicals. [More about American Periodicals Series Online] 

American Sermons Collections
More than 8,000 sermons delivered from 1652-1819 on topics such as politics, society, religion, and family life. [More about American Sermons Collections] 

Artstor
The Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible collection of software tools for organizing and presenting research, with contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.  [More about Artstor] You must create an individual account to download images. See special terms for important information on use restrictions.

Cambridge Histories
Extensive essays and annotated bibliographies arranged topically from the renowned print series published since the 1960s. [More about Cambridge Histories] 

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Marcive)
Access the publications issued by all branches of the US Government. [More about Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Marcive)] 

Cecil Papers
The Cecil Papers are a privately held archive, consisting principally of the correspondence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son, Robert, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612). [More about Cecil Papers] 

Chicago Manual of Style Online
The online version of the 17th edition of the Chicago Manuel of Style. [More about Chicago Manual of Style Online] 

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Chronicling America is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. [More about Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers] 

Civil Rights in America: From Reconstruction to the Great Society
An archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States. [More about Civil Rights in America: From Reconstruction to the Great Society] 

Colonial State Papers
Primary source documents of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries from the earliest English settlements in North America. [More about Colonial State Papers] 

Congressional Research Historical Archive (1830-2003)
Indexes historical Congressional publications, including hearing and reports from both House and Senate as well as the Serial Set. [More about Congressional Research Historical Archive (1830-2003)] 

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. [More about Digital Public Library of America] 

Digital Scriptorium
Image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. [More about Digital Scriptorium] 

Early American Newspapers: From Colonies to Nation
Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers. [More about Early American Newspapers: From Colonies to Nation] 

Early Church Texts
This database provides access to Greek and Latin texts related to the Early Church, from the first to the fifth century, with online dictionary links, English translations, a search facility and notes. [More about Early Church Texts] 

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digitized books from the Short Title Catalog. [More about Early English Books Online (EEBO)] 
Use the EEBO Text Creation Partnership interface for full text searching of the Short Title Catalog books.

Early English Books Text Creation Partnership (TCP)
Full text searching of many titles in the Short Title Catalog of English Books. [More about Early English Books Text Creation Partnership (TCP)] 

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
The English Short Title Catalogue lists over 460,000 items, mainly in English, published between 1473 and 1800. [More about English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)] 

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
Citations to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. [More about European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750] 

Evans Text Creation Partnership (TCP)
Full text searching of titles in the Evans Bibliography of works printed in America from 1639-1800. [More about Evans Text Creation Partnership (TCP)] 

Gale Historical Atlases
Collection of historical atlases from around the world. [More about Gale Historical Atlases] 

Gale Primary Sources
Use this platform to select and cross-search within multiple Gale Primary Sources collections. [More about Gale Primary Sources] 

Gale Primary Sources: American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
The American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society is a collection of scanned copies of newspapers and other print materials from colonial America and Canada. [More about Gale Primary Sources: American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society] 

Gale Primary Sources: American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
FBI files illustrate the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism. [More about Gale Primary Sources: American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism] 

Gale Primary Sources: Archives of Sexuality and Gender
This archival collection allows users to search approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world, and to explore subjects such as LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, human rights, gender studies, and more. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Archives of Sexuality and Gender] 

Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound
Search across available Archives Unbound digital archival collections. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound] 

Gale Primary Sources: British Library Newspapers
The British Library Newspapers are a collection of newspapers scans from Britain in from 1800-1900. [More about Gale Primary Sources: British Library Newspapers] 

Gale Primary Sources: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth-century English-language texts digitized from the holdings of the British Library. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)] 

Gale Primary Sources: European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century
U.S. National Archives collection of Consulate documents related to German colonies in Africa from 1910 to 1929. [More about Gale Primary Sources: European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century] 

Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush & Foreign Affairs: The Moscow Summit
This digital archives provides an in-depth analysis of the events leading up to the dissolution of the USSR and its implications for US-Soviet relations. [More about Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush & Foreign Affairs: The Moscow Summit] 

Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: Bosnia
This digital archive consists of comprehensive materials related to the former Yugoslavia, particularly Bosnia, and US presidential decision-making. [More about Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: Bosnia] 

Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: Fall of the Berlin Wall
This digital archive contains an in-depth analysis of the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and its implications for US-German relations. [More about Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: Fall of the Berlin Wall] 

Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: The Middle East Peace Conference
This digital archive comprises materials related to the planning and organization of the October 1991 Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid. [More about Gale Primary Sources: George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: The Middle East Peace Conference] 

Gale Primary Sources: Indigenous Peoples of North America
A collection that covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Indigenous Peoples of North America] 

Gale Primary Sources: Meriam Report on Indian Administration and the Survey of Conditions
Primary-document collection of two major responses to 40 years of failed Native American policies. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Meriam Report on Indian Administration and the Survey of Conditions] 

Gale Primary Sources: Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
The Overland Journeys collection contains fulltext materials on Western US History. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880] 

Gale Primary Sources: Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
A collection of poet icon and revolutionary political activist Amiri Baraka's work with over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement] 

Gale Primary Sources: Religions of America
Digital collection providing more than 660,000 pages of content that follow the development of religions and religious movements born in the US from 1820 to 1990, drawing from manuscripts, pamphlets, newsletters, ephemera, and visuals. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Religions of America ] 

Gale Primary Sources: Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926
Digital collection offering a perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926] 

Gale Primary Sources: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
This comprehensive collection of early English newspapers holds over one million newspaper pages, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets, and proclamations, all from London, the British Isles, and colonies. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection] 

Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Primary source database primarily including documents from the United States and Europe related to slavery and abolition. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive] 

Gale Primary Sources: The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
Historical content from the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. [More about Gale Primary Sources: The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003] 

Gale Primary Sources: The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978
This digital archive contains is an online collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners. [More about Gale Primary Sources: The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978] 

Gale Primary Sources: U.S. Declassified Documents Online
Digital collection providing access to a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty first centuries. [More about Gale Primary Sources: U.S. Declassified Documents Online] 

Gale Primary Sources: Witchcraft in Europe and America
Digital collection on witchcraft from the 15th century to the early 20th century that includes anti-persecution writings, works by penologists, legal and church documents, exposés of persecutions, and philosophical writings and transcripts of trials and exorcisms. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Witchcraft in Europe and America] 

Gale Primary Sources: Women's Studies Archive: Issues and Identities
This archive provides access to materials covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives in a global context and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. [More about Gale Primary Sources: Women's Studies Archive: Issues and Identities] 

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Contains citations to scholarly journals, books, and book reviews about US-Hispanic and Latin American topics, in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish languages. [More about Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)] 

HathiTrust
The HathiTrust is a shared digital repository, incorporating digitized content from some of the largest research libraries in the United States.  [More about HathiTrust] Login required for some collections

HeinOnline
Provides access to more than 80 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format.  [More about HeinOnline] 

HeinOnline: Civil Rights and Social Justice
A database of government documents, reports, and legal documents pertaining to civil rights and social justice. [More about HeinOnline: Civil Rights and Social Justice] 

Historical Statistics of the United States
Includes annual time series of statistical historical information covering quantifiable dimension of American history--population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations--all from the earliest times to the present. [More about Historical Statistics of the United States] 

Homeland Security Digital Library
This database is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. [More about Homeland Security Digital Library] 

Humanities International Complete
Abstracts and some full text covering diverse subject areas of the humanities.  [More about Humanities International Complete] 

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)
International database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide. [More about Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)] 

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
IMB Indexes books, articles, book chapters, and other publications on the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500 (USU's subscription is provided through the Tanner Endowment Fund). [More about International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)] 

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is a resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse, providing a historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually. [More about Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism] 

Joint Publications Research Services (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1994
Collection of information on peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. [More about Joint Publications Research Services (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1994] 

JSTOR Open Community Collections
Open access content from JSTOR and Artstor. [More about JSTOR Open Community Collections] 

JSTOR: Independent Voices
An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, antiwar activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. [More about JSTOR: Independent Voices] 

L'Année Philologique
This database, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic collection of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. [More about L'Année Philologique] 

Latin American Newspapers
This online collection provides more than 50 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. [More about Latin American Newspapers] 

LIFE Magazine
Produced by Google, this is a freely available, fully digitized archive of LIFE Magazine during its years as a weekly magazine owned by Time, Inc. [More about LIFE Magazine] 

Loeb Classical Library
This database presents a searchable virtual library of important Greek and Latin literature with more than 530 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts available. [More about Loeb Classical Library ] 

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history. [More about Making of America] 

Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications
Index to government publications published from 1895 to 1976. [More about Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications] 

National Geographic Virtual Library
Digital collection offering access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine, along with a cross-searchable collection of books, maps, images, and videos from 1888 to 1994. [More about National Geographic Virtual Library] 

National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
Aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010. [More about National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)] 
Users must register in order to download data (registration is free).

NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers
The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) is a tool that facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. [More about NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers] 

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Primary-source material documenting women's experience in the United States. [More about North American Women's Letters and Diaries] 

Oxford Bibliographies: Religious Studies
This database offers the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, across the subjects of Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, and the Renaissance & Reformation. [More about Oxford Bibliographies: Religious Studies] 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Illustrated biographies of men and women who shaped Britain's past from the 4th century to 21st century. [More about Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] 

Oxford Handbooks Online
Provides in-depth coverage in the subject areas of Political Science and Archaeology. [More about Oxford Handbooks Online] 

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: African History
Comprehensive, online research encyclopedia covering all areas of African history. [More about Oxford Research Encyclopedias: African History] 

Perseus Project
An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. [More about Perseus Project] 

Presidential Recordings Program
From 1940 to 1973, US presidents secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of in-person and telephone conversations. [More about Presidential Recordings Program] 

Project MUSE
Multidisciplinary e-journal collection for humanities and social sciences. [More about Project MUSE] 

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (Digital Dissertation Abstracts)
Doctoral dissertations and some masters' theses from many North American graduate schools and some European universities. [More about ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (Digital Dissertation Abstracts)] 

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, 1851 - 2018
New York Times in full text and full image. [More about ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, 1851 - 2018] 

Readex AllSearch
Use this platform to select and search within multiple Readex archival collections. [More about Readex AllSearch] 

Regesta Imperii
European History foreign language database. [More about Regesta Imperii] 

Shen Bao Digital Archive
A digital archive of the Shanghai-based newspaper. [More about Shen Bao Digital Archive] 

Social Explorer
Current and historical census data and demographic information for the United States with tools to create thematic maps, interactive maps, and customized reports.  [More about Social Explorer] 

State Papers Online: The Tudors, Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I 1509-1714 (State Papers Domestic)
16th- and 17th-century British government documents, primarily from the papers of the Secretaries of State. [More about State Papers Online: The Tudors, Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I 1509-1714 (State Papers Domestic)] 

TEAMS Middle English Texts
Middle English texts--excluding Chaucer and Langland. [More about TEAMS Middle English Texts] 

Territorial Papers of the United States Series I and II
A collection of Native American negotiations and treaties, official correspondence with the federal government, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, land records, and more. [More about Territorial Papers of the United States Series I and II] 

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
This database contains most texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. [More about Thesaurus Linguae Graecae] 
Users will need to create a free account with a username and password to access the database.

U.S. Department of State: U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
This database from the U.S. Department of State bears some similarities to the CIA Country Fact sheets but has a more specific focus; namely, it concentrates on U.S. Bilateral Relations. [More about U.S. Department of State: U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets] 

USU Digital History Collections: Logan Historical Newspaper Collection, 1879-1892
Historical Logan Herald Journal and its earlier incarnations. [More about USU Digital History Collections: Logan Historical Newspaper Collection, 1879-1892] 

Utah Digital Newspapers
Digitized runs of small-town newspapers from throughout Utah. [More about Utah Digital Newspapers] 

Women’s Magazine Archives
ProQuest's archive of women's magazines. [More about Women’s Magazine Archives] 

WorldCat Discovery
Identify resources at your library and in the collections of the world's libraries. [More about WorldCat Discovery]