El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, TX), 1931-1997 Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN), 1898-2018 Sarasota Herald Tribune (Sarasota, FL), 1925-2018 Morning Journal (Lorain, OH), 1922-2013
Category: American Studies
North American City Reports The North American city reports module on Policy Commons contains over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.
Foundations of American Government The Shaping of America: Foundations of American Government documents every aspect of early American government from 1663 to 1819. More than 13,000 primary source documents—including speeches, legislative proceedings, committee reports, letters, and more—reflect a general distrust of centralized governance as the colonies transitioned from British rule to a new republic. The
Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements Covering primarily the 1950s and 1960s, Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements provides access to primary source documents that focus on how ordinary citizens in the smaller communities viewed, participated in and lived through this historical era. When completed in 2025, the collection will include
Defining a Nation: The Literature of Early America, 1645-1819 The Literature of Early America contains nearly every literary work printed in America up to 1819. It contains works by celebrated authors like Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Paine, Phyllis Wheatley, and Benjamin Franklin as well as hundreds of lesser-known works—many of them by women and African Americans–exploring
The Rise of American Politics: Nearly every printed work about politics in America from 1655 to 1819 More than 7,000 works about the rise of American politics from 1655-1819, featuring text and data analysis tools, author biographies, and suggested search paths for easy browsing and discovery. Available here: The Shaping of America: The Rise of
The American Stage to 1819 The most comprehensive collection about the American theatre from 1702 to 1819, The American Stage to 1819 features more than 2,000 primary sources representing the era’s range of genres. Historical plays, melodramas, comedies, satires, musicals, operas, dramatic adaptations, and more reveal the American theater’s importance as a cultural institution. And,
Early American Newspapers, Series 19: Southern Newspapers, the Politics of Race in the South More than 350 newspapers printed in and around the southern United States during the Abolitionist, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. First-hand accounts of the struggles around the threat of secession and the effort to knit the nation together again. A fully
The Civil War, Part IV, A Midwestern Perspective The Civil War : A Midwestern Perspective consists of newspapers published in Indiana between the years of 1855 and 1869. These newspapers cover events before and after the War as well as the Civil War itself. The newspapers were published by individuals from across the political spectrum
Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names (2nd edition) This revised and expanded second edition contains more than 80,000 of the most commonly occurring surnames in the United States, reflecting better than ever the unique diversity of the American population. All surnames with more than 300 bearers in the 2010 US Census are now included, increasing
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History Women’s travel diaries and correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Includes manuscripts, diaries, travel journals, correspondence, photographs, postcards and ephemera, from 1818 to the 1970s. The geographical area covered by these diaries is far-reaching, with travel to countries within the British,
Gilded Age and Progressive Era Explore America’s transformative age of industrialization, expanding wealth, inequality and social change. This resource aims to showcase the transformation of America into a modern, urban, industrial global power through business, legal and personal papers. Technological progress and extreme wealth for the few, contrasted with stark inequality and endemic poverty for
