American Cornerstones Project: Home

This database contains scholarly articles from historians on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Use this to find articles analyzing historical figures and their impact on American society, historical events, or other history topics for context.

Contains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.

Search digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers using advanced searching capabilities. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

From Black-owned newspapers to mainstream publications, this primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed
and perceived people of African descent. Packed with information unavailable elsewhere, Black Life in America is sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 African American publications.

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

This database collects materials produced by the federal government, including the Congressional Record (debates on the floor of congress), Federal laws and regulations, and much more.

Use this to supplement the readings for your classes, and particularly to explore how laws are created and changed.

Hispanic Life in America is the single most comprehensive digital archive of primary source documents related to Hispanic American life. Replete with material unavailable elsewhere, this collection is sourced from more than 17,000 global news sources, including over 700 Spanish-language or bilingual publications. Combining historical content with current sources, Hispanic Life in America is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in examining the full spectrum of American history and culture.

Indigenous Peoples: North America sources collections from across Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth into the twentieth century. Including diverse manuscripts; book collections; newspapers from various tribe and Indian-related organizations; materials such as Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages all enable students' examination of important primary source materials.

Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 examines the history of public health and the policy debates that ensued in the delivery of services at the national, state, and local levels during pivotal times in history. The collection includes unpublished reports, correspondence, ephemera, pamphlets, grey literature, and more. The collection is relevant to research in the fields of American history, American studies, health policy, history of science, medical history, public health studies, sociology, political science, psychology, health care, health systems, and economics.

This database collects the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 - 1982.

Use this to find materials that reflect the culture and general opinions of people in a given time period.

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.

Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the U.S. economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.

A research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and others who are interested in the Empire State's history. Provides access to hundreds of digital collections from libraries, museums and archives from all over the state.