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This is your starting point for e-journals, databases and websites for U.S. History. Library of Congress Reading Room You'll find key sites especially useful for research or rewarding to browse. Don't miss the core database America: History and Life for finding scholarly articles in U.S. History, or American Memory, the Library of Congress digital archive of primary source texts, historical photographs, sound recordings, videos, and much more. And try the new guide to U.S. Historical Newspapers

On the page below, the right-hand menu leads to hundreds of additional sites, arranged by type, as well as a single alphabetical list.

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Elliot Kanter, United States History Librarian

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  1. America: History and Life Key site [UCSD Only]
    1964-present. International database for research on all periods of U.S. and Canadian history, including very recent years. Includes abstracts of journal articles and listings of books and dissertations. [Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/6159
    For rest of world use Historical Abstracts
  2. American History in Video Key site [UCSD Only]
    Coverage of historical events through documentaries, commercial and government newsreels, and archival and public affairs footage. When finished will include 1200 titles, 2000 hours of video.[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/137187
  3. American Memory Key site
    Library of Congress digital library of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history: print, manuscripts, photographs, moving pictures and recorded sound. More than 150 collections and growing.[Full Description]
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
    Browse list of all collections
    Frequently asked questions
    Search tips
    Browse by topic
  4. American National Biography Key site [UCSD Only]
    Detailed articles on more than 18,000 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the United States. Includes bibliographies and links to web resources. Several hundred new entries added each year.[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/6948
    Biography of the day (free to all)
    Print edition also available (not including additions after 1999)
    Latest biographies added (free to all)
  5. American Periodicals Series (APS) Online Key site [UCSD Only]
    1740-1900. Full text of North American periodicals (magazines and newspapers) from 1740 through the 19th century; a few early 20th century periodicals also included. Search APS Online by keyword or browse by journal.[Full Description]
    http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=VFJNPTImSU5UPTAmUFJEPS00
    List of journals indexed
  6. Americas Historical Newspapers Key site [UCSD Only]
    English-language papers 1690-1876, 700 papers from cities in 24 states east of the Mississippi. Also includes Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, and Calif Historical Newspapers, 1752-1922. Coverage of each paper from a few issues to many years.[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/42513
    Hispanic-American Newspapers, 1808-1980
    UCSD also has microform version
    California's Historical Newspapers, 1752-1922
  7. ArchiveGrid Key site [UCSD Only]
    Search through thousands of archive and manuscript collections worldwide. View descriptions of both individual collections and repositories, and in many cases detailed finding aids -- down to the level of individual folders and files.[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/133393
    View a list of contributing institutions
  8. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Key site
    Search and read newspaper pages from several states 1900-1910 (including California); search a directory (including library holdings) for U.S. newspapers published from 1690-present.[Full Description]
    http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
    Browse the digitized newspapers
    Go directly to the directory
  9. Guides to Census Research: U.S. Census Key site
    Describes the scope and contents of every U.S. Census of population, 1790-2000. Links to help you find both the print and online census publications and data available at UCSD.[Full Description]
    http://sshl.ucsd.edu/instruction/guides/census/index.html
  10. HeritageQuest (US Census, local history texts) Key site [UCSD Only]
    Search or browse U.S. Census forms as filled in by door-to-door census takers, 1790-1930. (Not all years indexed yet.) Also includes 25,000 books of local and family history, genealogy, other documents and index to genealogy and local history periodicals[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/34623
    View summary of contents
    Browse available publications
  11. Historical Newspapers for the US: UCSD Library Resources Key site
    A guide to finding United States historical newspapers available from the UCSD Libraries: links to those online; locations for those on microfilm. Includes major collections of historical newspapers and well as listings of some important individual papers[Full Description]
    http://ucsd.libguides.com/historicalnewspapers
  12. Librarians Internet Index: United States History Key site
    Websites selected and evaluated by librarians around the United States.[Full Description]
    http://www.lii.org/pub/topic/history_united_states
  13. New York Times (Historical) Key site [UCSD Only]
    1851-2006. Search and browse full text and display images of both articles and complete newspaper pages. Via Proquest.[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/115826
    Guide to searching, viewing, printing
    Current New York Times, 1999-present
    Alternative access on LexisNexis, 1980-present
  14. Online Archive of California Key site
    OAC identifies and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions. Includes detailed finding aids; also images and many digitized texts [Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/11935
  15. Organization of American Historians Key site
    The largest learned society devoted to the study of American history. Includes online access to recent issues of the Journal of American History[Full Description]
    http://www.oah.org/
  16. Proquest Black Historical Newspapers Key site [UCSD Only]
    Cover-to-cover article and page images of Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993).[Full Description]
    URL too long to display
  17. Proquest Historical Newspapers Key site [UCSD Only]
    Cover to cover article text & page images of Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), New York Times (1851-2005), San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Washington Post (1877-1992), Wall Street Journal (1889-1991)[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/115867
  18. Resources for History Graduate Students Key site
    From the American Historical Association. Links to the most popular resources the AHA has prepared or found for graduate students at every stage in their studies[Full Description]
    http://www.historians.org/grads/
  19. Sixties:Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 Key site
    70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, plus more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, audio and video materials. Also interpretive essays by historians[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/136017
  20. WorldCat Next Generation Key site
    Catalog of library materials of all types at more than 12,000 libraries worldwide. Integrated in this version with NextGeneration MELVYL, showing Univ of Calif holdings first. Use UC E-Links to request interlibrary loan[Full Description]
    http://ucsd.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
  21. Black Studies Center [UCSD Only]
    Includes fulltext journals and indexing from the International Index of Black Periodicals, newspapers such as the Chicago Defender and NY Amsterdam News, Black Literature Index, and essays from the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/113795
  22. Historic Documents: 1972-present [UCSD Only]
    U.S. and international documents on the most significant events of the year. Includes presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, governmental reports, scientific findings,cultural discussions, etc. 100 new documents per year[Full Description]
    http://uclibs.org/PID/142633
  23. John Muir Correspondence, 1856-1914
    Digital images of the correspondence of John Muir from 1856-1914, which include letters to and from notable figures in scientific, literary, and political circles of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Part of the John Muir Papers microfilm set [Full Description]
    http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc/
  24. Manuscript Collections at UCSD for U.S & California History
    UCSD's Mandeville Library of Special Collections has collections of personal papers and archives related to U.S. history. Here are detailed guides to 36 of those collections[Full Description]
    http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/historyfa.html
  25. UCSD Dissertations in U.S. History
    University of California San Diego Ph.D. dissertations in United States history. Those awarded since 1997 are also available online.[Full Description]
    URL too long to display
  26. Vietnam Center and Archive
    Over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials including "documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding aids." From the Institute for Modern Conflict, Diplomacy and Reconci[Full Description]
    http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/
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