Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals, documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the early 1910's.
Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works written from the medieval period through the Victorian era.
Digital images of books, pamphlets, and periodicals covering the history of women, rights, suffrage, and feminism from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.
Collection of diaries and letters from more than 1,000 individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, as well as biographical sketeches of people represented in this database.
Search Indian claims content by keyword, full text, docket number, and more. Content includes decisions, transcripts, docket books, journals of the Indian Claims Commission (a judicial panel for relations between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes), and related statutes and congressional publications from 1789-current.
Collection of writings on the subject of witchcraft. Included are reproductions of fragile manuscripts containing eyewitness accounts and court records of the trials of witches. Dates of coverage: 1500-1930.
This collection documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Source types include narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.
American Indians and the American West (1809-1971) subcollectionCollections focusing on the interaction between American Indians and the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th Centuries, such as the Indian Removal, Indian Wars, material from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. Source types include digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries and more.
Women's Studies subcollection
Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990 Records of three important women’s rights organizations: National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. Collection coverage 1880-1990.
Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War subcollection Records of antebellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War.
American Politics and Society subcollection
Immigration Records of the INS (1880-1930)Covers Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930; and European immigration.
More than 2,000 authors contribute approximately 100,000 pages that provide a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
Letters of marque and letters regarding enemy aliens; passenger lists of vessels; correspondence regarding passports; agreements for the exchange of prisoners of war; miscellaneous correspondence.
Letters of correspondence received by and sent to the War Department. Attachments include vouchers, financial statements, speeches to Indians, proceedings of conferences with Indians in Washington, licenses of traders, passports for travel in Indian country.
Shows how the topics of slavery and secession were presented in Southern intellectual and literary culture in the early stages of the Civil War. Dates of coverage: 1834-1864.
Includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries covering the history of the slave trade. Part 1: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Part 2: The Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; Part 3: The Institution of Slavery: Part 4: Age of Emancipation
Diaries, memoirs, regimental histories, and other first-person accounts compiled in the postwar period and early 20th century, chronicling the highs and lows of army life. Dates of coverage: 1860-1865.
Collection of text, photographs, songs, and otherprimary source materials covering the topics of immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment.
Consumer interest magazines focused on women and domestic issues from the 19th century through 2005. Includes titles like Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Essence, and Ladies Home Journal.
Women's Studies subcollection
Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990Records of three important women’s rights organizations: National Woman’s Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women’s Action Alliance. Collection coverage 1880-1990.
Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army CorpsRecords of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women's Army Corps.
Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals subcollection
Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century: Federal RecordsDocuments the American workers and labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers and the U.S. federal government. 1900-1960.
American Politics and Society subcollection
New Deal/World War IIIncluded are: FBI Reports of the Franklin D. Roosevelt White House; Civilian Conservation Corps Press Releases; Records of the Committee on Economic Security; Department of Treasury records; and a special set of documentary records on the Roosevelt Presidency covering 50 important episodes and themes of the Roosevelt presidency.
American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate (1960-1975)Documents from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies as well as records from federal agencies. Issues span women's rights, environmental issues, urban renewal, rural development, tax reform, civil rights, space exploration, international trade, War on Poverty, and the Watergate trials.
International Relations and Military Conflicts subcollection
Office of Strategic Services State Department Intelligence and Research Reports IDe-classified reports on major areas of the world from 1941 to 1961, written by the OSS in conjunction with the State Department. Topics include WWII, communism, and economics.
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle subcollection
Collection contains the NAACP Papers and federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers regarding the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century.
More than 2,000 authors contribute approximately 100,000 pages that provide a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
Consumer interest magazines focused on women and domestic issues from the 19th century through 2005. Includes titles like Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Essence, and Ladies Home Journal.
Documents originated by the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation on operatives investigating politically suspect figures and organizations. Topics include A. Philip Randolph, the Black Panther Party of NC, the Committee for Public Justice, Malcolm X, Mississippi Burning, NAACP, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others. Dates of coverage: 1920-1984.
Archives of the Federal Writers Project (FWP), a program of the Works Projects Administration (WPA). Publications from all participating states, including city guides, social-ethnic studies, original poems and plays, and many others. Dates of coverage: 1933-1943.
FBI Library documents on civil rights activists, the Freedom Riders, who rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, which outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines.
Insights into President John F. Kennedy's views on foreign affairs, U.S. leadership of the "West," and various worldwide crises. Dates of coverage: 1958-1964.
The confidential and subject special files of President Richard M. Nixon. Dates of coverage: 1969-1974.
Materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Dates of coverage: 1990-1991.
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