History (Primary Resources)


Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs

The collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen in the late 1800s. This resource delivers images on the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights as they appeared in the original printed works.  It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages.

Health & Fitness Magazine Archive

Provides digital access to issues of US and UK consumer health magazines, as early as 1950. Includes titles such as Flex, Prevention, Men’s Health, and Women’s Health. Topics include 20th-century history and society, women’s and men’s studies, body image, fitness and exercise, food and nutrition, and public health.

HeritageQuest online

A resource for census data, family records and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.

Hispanic Life in America, 1704 – Present

This primary source collection focuses on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media. It spans the early Spanish settlements of the 18th century to the modern era. Articles, blogs, videos, audio recordings and more are sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.

Independent Voices

This collection chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of independent alternative presses. Among the broad interest groups covered are American youth. Feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals and the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, and members of the LGBT communities.