Special Collections

More than 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs from more than 1000 sources provide first-person views on almost all aspects of the Civil War.

An extensive collection of primary source materials covering the Antebellum era, the War Years, and Reconstruction period.  Contains numerous newspapers and government documents, including the Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, and the massive The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.  Also this product contains broadsides, song sheets, poems, envelopes, and other printed materials

This collection focuses on personal accounts that document the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850.

This database consists of 36,000 books and other items published in the United States from about 1639 to 1800.

This full-image archive brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2012.

History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

This is a collection of approximately 150,000 pages of women’s letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, drawn from more than 1,000 sources. Plus, it offers more than 1,500 biographies.