History (Primary Resources)


ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design is a comprehensive resource that supports the fields of art, design, architecture, and fashion by integrating rare primary sources, scholarly journals, multimedia, and specialist indexes. Key databases and collections include ARTbibliographies Modern, Design & Applied Arts Index, Art & Architecture Archive, Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library, Vogue Archive, and Women’s Wear Daily. 

ProQuest One Women's Studies

ProQuest One Women’s Studies is really a gender studies database. It includes primary sources, scholarly journals (including the materials from GenderWatch), and multimedia content found in databases such as The Gerritsen Women’s History Collection, Margaret Sanger Papers, National Woman’s Party Papers, and Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from Schlesinger Library, along with over 450 historical periodicals like Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, & Seventeen.

Readers' guide retrospective

Provides indexing to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the important events of the 20th century.  Coverage includes 1890-1982.

RIPM Jazz Periodicals

RIPM Jazz Periodicals is comprised of 117 jazz journals published between 1920 and approximately the year 2000, primarily from the United States. Significant journals include, among others, Cadence, Mississippi Rag, and Record Changer.

Rolling Stone Archive

Access the entire run of one of the most important magazines to cover music and popular culture. The archive provides issue browsing and keyword searching of all text including articles, photo captions, and advertisements.

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law

This database include essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870.This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.