Key Databases
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowHistorical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archive of important scholarly journals, eBooks and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Offers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as originally published.
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA searchable database of over a thousand newspapers from across the United States, especially pre-1900. Includes the Grand Forks Weekly, then Daily, Herald from 1879-1900.
Additional Databases
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowEthnic, minority and native press. Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowSearch selected online Reference Books in Business, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nations, Popular Culture, Religion and Science.
- HathiTrust This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust is a collaborative repository of digital materials created and maintained by a partnership of major research universities and libraries.
- Historic American Newspapers: Chronicling America This link opens in a new windowSearch America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
- America’s Historical Imprints This link opens in a new windowAll manner of printed matter from the colonial and Early National period of US history (to 1820); includes books, maps, commercial advertising, and more. Essential source for social history during this period.