HST 374 (Krainz): Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1914: Online Document Collections

Includes census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, with extensive coverage for the United States and the United Kingdom. Also includes collections from other areas of the world, including Canada, Europe and Australia. This collection includes thousands of databases and billions of indexed names.
Extent: Multidisciplinary

Portal to 19th century British and American sources, comprising tens of millions of records including those in the Wellesley Index, American Periodicals, British Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and more.

A collection of texts, images, and audio and video recordings from America's libraries, archives, and museums.
Access note: Freely available to the public.
Extent: Multidisciplinary

Primary sources documenting the changing representations of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. Offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Collection of letters and diaries that present the personal experiences of hundreds of women from Colonial times to 1950. Also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Dates Covered: 1675-1950.

Database focusing on the history of women in social movements in the U.S.
Dates Covered: 1600-2000.

American Antiquarian Society collection of 3,500 slavery and abolition titles includes books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera.

Database focusing on the study of the historical development of black culture. Includes monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community.
Dates Covered: 1841-present.

The story of food and drink is a unique lens through which to view the history of society, empires, migration, business and trade. The materials in this collection illustrate this deep link between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socioeconomic status, as well as charting key issues around agriculture, nutrition and food production.
Dates covered: 1514-2010.

Collection of primary source documents focusing on immigrants to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
Dates Covered: 1800-1950.

Immense, continuously updated digital collection providing enhanced search and availability of millions of public domain, in-copyright, and permissioned digitized books, federal government documents and serial publications in a variety of languages from sources such as Google Books, Internet Archive, Microsoft and initiatives at partner academic and research institutions.
Access note: Freely available to the public. Current DePaul faculty, staff and students get extra functionality when logged in such as full PDF downloads of public domain and permissioned works and options to create and share content collections. To log in, click the LOGIN button and select DePaul from the list.
Extent: Multidisciplinary

Provides access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. Useful for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.