1980s Culture and Society contains documents, such as advertisements, government files, newspapers and magazines, photographs, and videos, that political, social and welfare issues of the 1980s.

African American Communities presents a historical glimpse into the everyday lives of African American communities in various cities through the United States.

African American Police League Records, 1961-1988 documents how African American policeman attempted to fight discrimination and police brutality, and improve relations between African Americans and police.

America in World War Two is a digital resource that shows how World War Two changed American society and the economy. The impact of the war on families and individuals is presented through oral history videos, mail, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, newspapers, and more.

American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 consists of U.S. government and tribal records on American Indians throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

American Politics in the Early Cold War—Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961 presents major White House files from the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, including international relations and domestic concerns during the Cold War.

From early topographical sketches and pioneers’ accounts, to photographs of Buffalo Bill and his ‘Wild West’ stars, explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.

Black Abolitionist Papers details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. The collection covers the period 1830-1865 and contains articles, documents, letters, literary works.

Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, is a collection of primary source documents from a wide range of archival repositories. Covering 1901 to 1991, the focus is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th Century. This database contains collections of primary source documents from the records of federal government agencies, the personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations.

Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, consists of primary source documents from the personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations. Covering 1895 to 1992, the focus is on the experiences of individual African Americans, as told through diaries, personal correspondence and more. In addition, important records from a number of organizations including the American Committee on Africa, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, League of Revolutionary Black Workers, National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, Revolutionary Action Movement, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 module is highlighted by the records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, and the Robert F. Williams Papers. Rounding out this module are the papers of Chicago Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the Chicago chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, and records pertaining to the Mississippi Freedom Summer.

British Periodicals Collection contains more than 450 periodicals from the 1680s to the 1930s. These periodicals cover topics such as literature, philosophy, history, science, social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology, architecture, news and politics. All materials are available in page image format with fully serachable text. Access is provided to Collections I, II, and III.

Children’s Literature and Culture showcases a broad range of richly illustrated children's books which reveals the history and literature of childhood between the 1820s and 1920s. Rare books and unique works of art trace the development of children’s publishing from early mass-produced items through to the flourishing print culture that followed.

Colonial America provides access to historical documents on North America from 1606-1822.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) covers many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. Starting with the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this is an electronic collection of 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement Dates of Coverage: Varies by publication

As the definitive resource in its category, Early European Books allows unlimited access to thousands of pre-1701 books and rare incunabula printed in Europe. It embraces the two-and-a-half centuries following Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in the mid-15th century, which witnessed an unprecedented proliferation and dissemination of literature throughout Europe. In keeping with the tenor of the time, religious works dominate, but there is no shortage of secular material concerning every field of human thought and activity.

Empire Online from Adam Matthew provides manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials cover the last five centuries and are accompanied by secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology. It charts the rise and fall of empires around the world. Empire Online provides exploration of colonial history, politics, culture, and society. It is organized into five sections: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire The Visible Empire Religion & Empire and Race, Class, Colonialism, Imperialism.

Everyday Life & Women in America, c. 1800-1920, comprises fully searchable images of rare books, pamphlets, and magazines addressing political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Full-text database providing digitized versions of primary source documents on topic.

Fold3 contains original military records that include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military.

Food and Drink in History contains cookbooks, advertisements, government reports, films, and illustrations - revealing the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere.

Gender: Identity and Social Change explores gender history through letters, records, advice literature and etiquette books, diaries, photographs, etc.

Heritage Quest Online Contents: U.S. Federal Census, books, PERSI, Revolutionary War, Freedmans Bank, and the U.S. Serial Set. Search other publications (books, serials, city directories, etc.) by name, places, or other keywords. Search PERSI for local history and genealogical journal articles. Dates of Coverage: Federal census, 1790 -- 1930; Searchable name indexes are available for the 1790 through 1820, 1860, 1870, and 1900 through 1930 censuses.

Immigration Records of the INS 1880-1930 covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration to California, Hawaii, and other states Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930, and European immigration. There are also extensive files on the INS's regulation of sex work, human trafficking, and on suppression of radicalized immigrants.

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America offers a comprehensive view into the interactions between Indigenous Peoples and Europeans. It spans from their initial contact to the civil rights movement, featuring material from the renowned Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library.

Indigenous Newspapers in North America presents a collection of newspapers from Indigenous peoples of the U.S. and Canada. Dates of coverage: 1828-2016

LGBT Magazine Archive Collection is a searchable archive of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests with coverage ranging from the 1950s through recent years.

The Berg Collection at New York Public Library is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown.

London Low Life brings the dark underworld of Victorian London to life with a digital collection of street literature, advertisements and propaganda, cartoons, maps, and much more.

Macmillan Cabinet Papers (1957-1963) complete coverage (nearly 12,000 pages) of the Cabinet Conclusions (Minutes) (CAB 128) and Memoranda (CAB 129), including recently released material. Includes correspondence with and memoranda from Government advisors and world leaders such as Kruschev, Eisenhower and Kenedy Records of Meetings between Macmillan and other key Government figures with leading international statesmen. Also includes five original essays concerning particular aspects of the Macmillan administration. Dates of Coverage: 1957-1963. .

Medieval Family Life contains fives collections of family letters from fifteenth century England. The resource also includes four other collections relating to medieval families in Essex, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, and Warwickshire, c1400-1490.

The NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files provides a comprehensive view of the NAACP's evolution, policies, and achievents from 1909-1970. Included are minutes of directors' meetings, monthly reports from officers to the board of directors, proceedings of the annual business meetings, significant records of the association's annual conferences, plus special reports on a wide range of issues. Topics covered include discrimination in public employment, the Ku Klux Klan, the depiction of Blacks in motion pictures, economic equality, the church and civil rights and the changing attitudes of Black youth.

NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department files chronicles the local heroes of the civil rights revolution from 1913 to 1972 including attorneys, community organizers, benefactors, students, mothers, teachers, and more.

NAACP Papers: Major Campaigns - Legal Department Files contains papers of the NAACP Legal Department from 1956 - 1972. This includes working case files. Topics covered in these cases include school desegregation, abuses of police procedure, freedom of speech, desegregation of public facilities, voting rights, housing discrimination, and employment discrimination. Files include background correspondence as well as court documents including transcripts of court proceedings.

The focus of NAACP Papers: Major Campaigns - Scottsboro, Anti-lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses is on efforts to combat lynching, mob violence, discrimination in the criminal justice system, and white resistance to civil rights.

NAACP Papers: Special Subjects covers topics that did not rise to the level of major campaigns but shows the scope of NAACP activism and interest. Topics include communism, anticommunism during the red scare, the congressional prossectuion of Hollywood personalitites, prison conditions throughout the United States, African colonial liberation movements, the emergency of the Black Power movement, and much more.

The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Education, Voting, Housing, Emlpoyment, Armed Forces provides documentation on the systematic assault on segregated education that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. This collection contains files from 1955 to 1965 that focus on the NAACP's efforts to implement the Brown decision as well as to combat de facto segregation outside of the South.

African American Heritage combines resources, records, and tools to aid African American family history research.

ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. The collections are organized into modules within these popular subject areas. UNT is subscribed select modules and collections, and not the entire platform.

Race Relations in American provides records of speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by Fisk University's Race Relations Department from 1943-1970. This information documents the civil rights fight with concentrations on desegregation, migration of African Americans from the rural South to urban centers, the role of the Church in the Civil Rights Movement, race riots and tensions, and the activists of the Civil Rights movement.

Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969 consists of reports, speeches, correspondence, and research materials from the Children's Bureau, the first federal agency dedicated entirely to protecting the welfare of children and families. The documents in this collection span the years from its creation in 1912 through 1969 and originate from the administrative files of the bureau staff members.

Service Newspapers of World War Two is a collection of wartime publications, both official and unofficial, for soldiers serving around the world.

Sex & Sexuality explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender and sexual behaviours in America and beyond, from the late-nineteenth century to the present day through the use of archival materials.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice covers slavery around the world, spanning the years 1490-2007. The conditions and legacy of slavery are presented through historical documents, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and images.

The Struggle for Women's Rights, organizational records, collection is comprised of records of three important women's rights organizations: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance.

This collection contains documents from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) along with other anti-Vietnam War organizations. These documents offer opportunities for research on the 1960s through the lens of influential anti-war organizations.

Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.

Women’s Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide focuses on individual women and organizations around the world who have broken new paths in society through business, social reform, popular culture, health care, and more. Covers 1759 - 2002

Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision contains diverse records that explore the history of gender and women's studies. The material in the collection includes books, documents, magazines, firsthand accounts, personal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, articles, and photographs.

Women's Issues and Identities traces the path of women's issues from past to present - pulling primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more. It captures the foundation of women's movements, struggles, and triumphs. This resource focuses on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Women at Work during World War II contains two major sets of records documenting the experience of American women during World War II: Records of the WOmen's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women's Army Corps. Primary sources document a wide range of issues pertinent to women during this time of turbulent change, including studies on the treatment of women by unions in several midwestern industrial centers, and the influx of women to industrial centers during the war. Topics covered in records and correspondence include women's work in war industries, pivotal issues like equal pay, childcare and race, and extensive documentation on the women who joined and served in the Women's Army Corps as WACs.

World's Fairs offers insight into the phenomenon of international expositions. Over 200 world's fairs and exhibitions are represented through a range of primary sources from various archive collections. Users can access documents from the fairs, case studies of several of the most significant fairs, interactive site plans, essays from consultant academics, and visual artifacts including souvenirs, photographs, posters, and plans.