American Studies

Scholarly, secondary literature covering the history and culture of the US and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Dates: 1639-1819
More than 100,000 early American monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents, and rare printed materials.

Dates: 1690-2000
Collection of newspapers from all over the United States.

Largest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles.

Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Streaming video service that provides access to more than 24,000 full-length educational films and over 250,000 film and news segments.

Offers documentaries on numerous topics, such as race, gender studies, human rights, global studies, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science, psychology, arts, literature, and many others.

Features scholarly articles and book reviews from over a thousand journals pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought across all fields of the humanities.

Includes all articles published in print editions of the New York Times. Coverage from 1980 to present.

Includes all articles published in historical print editions of the New York Times. Coverage from 1851 to 2006.

A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and newsmagazine content.

Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.

Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.

Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.