History

Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

An 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.

A 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.

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.

Online reference tools

Search selected online Reference Books in Business, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nations, Popular Culture, Religion and Science.

HathiTrust is a collaborative repository of digital materials created and maintained by a partnership of major research universities and libraries.

Search 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.

All 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.