The history of the United States from 1865 (Paper 24)

• Newspapers and periodicals online (see also the University Library's newspaper page):
  • Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers*: website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages of America, 1836-1922
  • Factiva* (currently available on campus only): news from 14,000 sources, both UK and foreign
  • New York Times, The*: online access to the New York Times
  • Time Archive: online access to Time Magazine
  • Wall Street Journal*: online access to the Wall Street Journal, from 1889 to 1996
  • Washington Post*: online access to the Washington Post
• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History: links to major historical U.S. documents, most of which are related to the nation's political, diplomatic, military, and legal history; includes speeches, statutes, treaties, court decisions, memoirs, diaries, and letters
• American National Biography Online*: biographies of over 18,000 individuals
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: digital library of documents relevant to fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government, ranging from ancient times to the present
• Brown Digital Repository: projects to digitize various of Brown University's special collections; includes Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition, and manuscripts and materials relating to Abraham Lincoln
• Cambridge Histories Online*: full texts of the Cambridge History series (titles include The Cambridge economic history of the United States, and The Cambridge history of American foreign relations
• Chicago Tribune*: historical newspaper complete from 1845-1995  
• Chronology of US Historical Documents: free online access to the text from documents of central importance to American constitutional and legal history
• Cold War International History Project: includes digital archive of primary source documents relating to international relations during the Cold War
• Congressional Record: Predecessors*: digitized public account of all legislative debate in the United States Congress, containing a substantially verbatim account of discussion and decisions of Congress on nearly all the major and minor policies and concerns of the day, as well as inserted materials, communications from the president and the executive branch agencies, memorials, petitions, and information and materials on legislation being introduced or passed                                                  
• Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection*: comprises the Congressional Record (beginning in 1873 and currently available through 2009), and the predecessor titles including the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Annals of Congress (1789-1824).
• Congressional Research Digital Collection*: a collection of research materials – CRS Reports and Committee Prints – created for Congress.
• Electronic Briefing Books (National Security Archive): online access to critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy
• Historical Statistics of the United States*: standard source for the quantitative facts of American history, fully cross-referenced and indexed
• Library of Congress: website of the Library of Congress, which includes extensive online catalogues and collections; particularly useful is the American Memory section
• Making of America (Cornell University): digital library of primary sources related to the development of the US infrastructure
• Making of America (University of Michigan): digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period to reconstruction
• National Archives (US): website of the National Archives, which includes extensive online catalogues and collections
• Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue*: catalogue of over 1.2 million items published in the English-speaking world from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War
• Official Publications Libguide: United States: Cambridge guide to US Official Publications
• Oxford African American Studies Center: digital library of scholarship on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online (USDDO)*: digital collection of over 75,000 declassified documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and others
• USMA Digital Collections: documentation from the archive collections of the United States Military Academy, including many historic maps
• Virtual Vietnam Archive: 3.2 million pages of scanned materials, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, etc., on the Vietnam War

(Resources marked * denote those subscribed to by the University Library; should any of the links not work, go to the eresources & ejournals page and try accessing the resource from there.)