HIS 4319 Capstone in U.S. History

Makes available American History documents from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. 

Indexes and provides full-text access to the majority of items printed about the Western hemisphere (North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean) for years 1500 to 1926. 

Indexes publications of the Anglo-American World, 1790-1919, and provides links to the full text of many of the resources. 

A thematically organized, four-part historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. It consists of "Debates over Slavery and Abolition", "Slave Trade in the Atlantic World", "Institution of Slavery", and "Age of Emancipation". All parts are cross-searchable through a single interface. Gale.

A unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. 

Provides access to documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. 

This resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material (manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images) from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. It includes significant coverage of Slavery Today, US court records from the local, regional and State Supreme Court level, documents on the Islamic slave trade, as well as sources on urban slavery, interracial education, the Day Law in Kentucky, desegregation and social justice. All printed items are full text searchable and manuscripts have document level indexing.

Provides access to literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African diaspora, documenting their confrontation of both sexism and racism and presenting their perspective on diversity and development of black people generally, and in particular documenting the evolution of black feminism. 

Provides access to a diverse collection of primary sources, scholarly articles, biographical information (from Notable American Women), data and graphs, state, local, and national reports, and the online journal Women and Social Movements. 

Provides full-text access to all executive branch publications produced by federal government agencies, departments, etc.

Provides the full text of all versions of all U.S. public and private bills and resolutions from 1789 to the present.

Provides digital access to the U.S. Serial Set, a compilation of U.S. government publications collected at the direction of Congress. 

Provides access to high resolution color maps indexed in the U.S. Serial Set Index and the Carto-Bibliography of Maps. 

Provides a complete collection of numbered and unnumbered Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations.

Provides PDF images of more than 22 000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

Provides access to resources in American legal history: constitutional conventions, cases, statutes, and regulations, as well as online access to archived state and municipal codes. Complements The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises.

Provides court transcripts, briefs, arguments, and unofficial published trial accounts (1600-1926) from the law library collections of Harvard, Yale, and the Bar of the City of New York as well as some from the British Library. 

Provides records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Provides access to a collection of legal primary source documents covering the first ninety years of the federal appellate court system's history.