Research Guides: History resources: American history

Starting points: American history

America: History and Life with Full Text

Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. 1954+

Print predecessor Writings on American History covering 1904-1954 is in Firestone's General & Humanities Reference (DR) Z1236.L331.

American National Biography Authoritative biographies of prominent Americans who are deceased. As with the Oxford DNB, an excellent starting point.

Oxford Bibliographies Thorough bibliographies covering important works on many topics in history

Oxford Research Encyclopedia. American History
In-depth articles on major ideas, trends and events, with extensive bibliographies.

Gale Primary Sources

Cross-searching tool for Gale primary source collections (including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Indigenous Peoples: North America, and Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture). Also allows users to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools.
Readex AllSearch
Search engine to Readex products.
AM explorer
Search engine to Adam Matthew archival materals.
ProQuest History
Combines various historical databases from ProQuest.
History Vault

Digital archive of U.S. history primary sources. Includes government documents, personal papers and organizational records.

ArchiveGrid
Index to finding aids and other descriptive information about the holdings of manuscript and archival collections in libraries and research institutions throughout the world.
Archive Finder
Contains the entire holdings in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Current directory of thousands of repositories and over 220,000 collections of primary source materials across the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. 1959+
WorldCat
Use "Advanced search" and Limit type to "Archival Materials"

Social Networks and Archival Context
Discover biographical and historical information about persons, families, and organizations that created or are documented in historical resources (primary source documents) and their connections to one another. Users can locate archival collections and related resources held at cultural heritage institutions around the world.