ABC-CLIO American History helps students build foundational subject knowledge of U.S. history from pre-contact to the present day. With over 20,000 primary and secondary sources presenting a full survey of America's development, this library provides a rich collection of primary sources covering everything from early diaries, ship logs, and slave narratives all the way to FBI surveillance files, as well as thoughtful commentary and academic discussions on topics ranging from early colonial settlement and the witch scare in Massachusetts to the complexities of the 2016 presidential election. Daily updates ensure that this database is accurate and credible as our understanding of American history continues to evolve. An in-depth survey of American history from pre-contact to the present, providing both foundational understanding for students transitioning to a 4-year university and advanced tools and resources for upper-level researchers, ABC-CLIO American History includes:

• More than 20,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, biographies, government and cultural documents, photos, audio/video recordings, and more.
• Nearly 3,300 biographies of famous political and military figures such as John Locke, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Douglas MacArthur, and César Chávez, as well as others from across American society, including Jackie Robinson, Andrew Carnegie, Meryl Streep, and Jonas Salk.
• More than 100 thesis-driven, scholarly articles addressing questions such as "Was slavery the principal cause of the Civil War?" and "Was immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries beneficial to America?"

Delivering over 6,800 journals, nearly 80% of which are in full-text, ABI/INFORM Complete is a comprehensive business database. Offering much more than journal content, this diverse solution provides the right mix of content types to meet the needs of any business researcher. ABI/INFORM also offers coverage on hundreds of industries and focus areas such as oil, gas, mining, energy, environment, and healthcare management, and has an ever growing range of content from around the globe. ABI/INFORM Complete provides researchers with diverse publication types that meet the requirements of core business programs and corporate libraries. With annual reports from nearly 1,000 leading North American companies, downloadable data sets from the Economic Intelligence Unit, market research reports, dissertations, business cases, and current news from The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, researchers will be equipped with the tools to respond to changing market conditions and prepare for emerging areas of interest.

Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, Accessible Archives provides access to diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records have been assembled into comprehensive collections from leading books, newspapers and periodicals. Collections include:

• African American Newspapers
• America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers, Parts I and II
• American County Histories
• Anatomy of Protest in America
• The Canadian Observer, 1914-1919
• The Civil War Collection
• Frank Leslie's Weekly
• Godey's Lady's Book Complete Collection (Parts I-IX)
• History of Woman Suffrage
• The Lily
• The Pennsylvania Gazette
• The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue
• Quarantine and Disease Control in America
• Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets
• Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
• South Carolina Newspapers
• Twelve Years a Slave
• The Virginia Gazette
• The Woman's Tribune
• Women's Suffrage Collection

America: History & Life with Full Text is the definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. America: History & Life with Full Text also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.

This unique collection of documents brings to life American History from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. It is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the finest archives available for the study of American history. Its quantity and quality offers a wonderful overview of American history alongside some deep research strands. It is divided into two modules: Module 1: Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform, 1493-1859 and Module 2: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era, 1860-1945.Features:Over 50,000 primary source documents split across two modules, including correspondence, diaries, government documents, business records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, artwork and maps Majority of the collection is unique manuscript Extensive cataloguing to aid search Translations and transcriptions for many manuscripts Secondary resources include chronology, essays, video lectures and interactive features Features from partner organizations Mount Vernon and the Gettysburg Foundation.

The American History Collection (Rotunda) gathers together three eras on one platform: the American Founding Era; Antebellum, Civil War & Reconstruction; and the American Century. Based on many of the most celebrated documentary editions in historical scholarship and expertly introduced and annotated, this primary-source material is fully searchable and interoperable across historical eras. Primary source materials in the various collections include correspondence and diaries of key figures in American history, thousands of constitutional and legislative documents and official state records, as well as writings in contemporary newspapers, books, broadsides, and pamphlets.

American Founding Era
• Adams Papers Digital Edition
• Diaries of Gouverneur Morris Digital Edition
• Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America
• Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
• Dolley Madison Digital Edition
• Papers of Alexander Hamilton Digital Edition
• Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition
• Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
• Papers of James Madison Digital Edition
• Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition
• Papers of Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen
• Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
• People of the Founding Era
• Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition

Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction
• Correspondence of James K. Polk
• Papers of Andrew Jackson Digital Edition
• Papers of Daniel Webster Digital Edition
• Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Digital Edition

American Century
• Papers of Woodrow Wilson Digital Edition

With more than one and a half billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists; primary-source document images (including the US Federal census); and a variety of genealogical research features. Further highlights are: An Immigration Collection that includes the New York Passenger Lists for 1820-1891; The American Genealogical-Biographical Index; The Civil War Research Database; the Civil War Service Records and the Civil War Pension Index; The Social Security Death Index; Massachusetts Town Vital Records Collection; Texas Land Title Abstracts; World War I Draft Registration Cards; World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas; Public Member Trees; U.S. City Directories; and School Lesson Plans.

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. The holdings are a great resource for Hispanic literature and culture scholars. This collection accurately conveys the creative life of U.S. Hispanics, and sheds new light on the intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized Hispanics from the earliest moments of American history through contemporary times.

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 includes:

• 60,000 historical articles
• Hundreds of political and religious pamphlets and broadsides
• Complete texts of over 1,100 historical books of Hispanic literature, political commentary and culture
• Content written in Spanish (80%) and English (20%)
• Content indexed and searchable in Spanish and English

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection draws its content from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the largest national project ever to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960. The project functions under the direction of Dr. Nicolás Kanellos, founder and director of Arte Público Press, the oldest and largest publisher of U.S. Hispanic literature, and geographically covers all fifty states of the Union.

The Briscoe Center strives to provide online access to its historical documentation. Through this page, the public can discover documents, photographs, illustrations, book excerpts, moving images, sound recordings, and even artifacts digitized by the Briscoe Centers staff. The public can also learn more about born-digital resources acquired by the Briscoe Center. Access to some items may be restricted to the Briscoe Centers reading room due to copyright concerns.

Provides bibliographic and full text content for thousands of the most important scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. The database also contains detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos), and more. Indexing and abstracts for 1,300 scholarly business journals date back to 1886.

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 is the largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in this region and provides a comprehensive primary resource for studying the development of Western society and international relations within this important group of islands. This unique resource is essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region as far back as the early 18th century. Created in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society—one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories—this collection provides students and scholars with easy access to more than 150 years of Caribbean and Atlantic history, cultures and daily life. Featuring more than 140 newspapers from 22 islands, this resource chronicles the region’s evolution across two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other news items. Most of these newspapers were published in the English language, but a number of Spanish-, French-, and Danish-language titles are also provided. Countries represented include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Bartholomew, St. Christopher, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad, and the Virgin Islands. Also found within this resource are newspapers from Bermuda, an island not technically part of the Caribbean, but situated on shipping routes between Europe and this region and integrally related to this region.

The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton University’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

Founded in 2007, Digitalia has devoted itself to content management, digital distribution and IT development tools. It has become a significant database serving a wide spectrum of interest and needs for Libraries, academics, students and readers in general. It currently provides the most complete database of e-books and e-journals in the Spanish language published from different countries. More than 16,000 electronic documents make it a database without precedent for the Hispanic community.

Collection of 660,000 large-scale landbook maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities. Includes information such as the outline of each building, the size and shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Textual information includes construction details, ownership and building use.

A collection of publicly available Americas (Hispanic Studies) online resources selected by Library of Congress staff.

As an American publisher of historical and current maps of US cities and towns, the Sanborn Map Company has been a driving influence in the mapping industry since it started in 1866. Sanborn maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in urbanized areas in the United States. The maps include detailed information regarding town and building data in approximately 12,000 US towns and cities from 1867 to 2007. They are a highly useful resource for historical research, planning, preservation and restoration, genealogical research, sociological studies, and research of urban geography. Select Sanborn maps of Canada (British Columbia), Cuba and Mexico are also included.

As an American publisher of historical and current maps of US cities and towns, the Sanborn Map Company has been a driving influence in the mapping industry since it started in 1866. Sanborn maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in urbanized areas in the United States. The maps include detailed information regarding town and building data in approximately 12,000 US towns and cities from 1867 to 2007. They are a highly useful resource for historical research, planning, preservation and restoration, genealogical research, sociological studies, and research of urban geography. Select Sanborn maps of Canada (British Columbia), Cuba and Mexico are also included.

HAPI provides authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 650 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. About 80% of the citations are linked to full text. The recently updated site features: English, Spanish, and Portuguese interfaces as well as the ability to search subject headings in any of these three languages search with or without accents and other diacritics and get the same results and weekly updates of new records.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. It is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a national research effort directed by Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Including many newspapers published bilingually in Spanish and English, Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, offers a diversity of unabridged voices, ranging from intellectuals and literary notables to politicians, union organizers and grassroots figures. Available online for the first time, these American newspapers published by Hispanics can now be easily browsed, searched and read. Users can compare and contrast Hispanic views on nearly every major theme in American life, beginning in 1808 when the first Spanish-language newspaper in the United States was printed in New Orleans.

Representing scholarship from more than 90 countries, and allowing for searching by time period, Historical Abstracts with Full Text includes book citations, dissertations and theses, and coverage extends to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology. This authoritative database is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. It provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. With over 800,000 records and access to the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books, Historical Abstracts with Full Text is unmatched in its scope and breadth of historical and related social science literature.

This resource represents the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, the World Newspaper Archive will advance research and offer opportunities for fresh insight across wide-ranging academic disciplines. This expanding online resource was created in partnership between Readex, a division of NewsBank, and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.

Providing exact digital replicas of newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages, the World Newspaper Archive chronicles the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative updates, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death notices and more, these historical newspapers offer students, teachers and scholars new perspectives on local, national and global issues as well as on daily life around the world.

An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the other side of the story, Ethnic News Watch (ENW) titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
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SimplyAnalytics has data which answers key business research questions, provides small businesses with a tool for making sound business decisions, and helps users understand the socio-demographic and economic conditions of any geographic area in the United States. There are thousands of data variables related to demographics, employment, housing, market segments, businesses, consumer spending and brand preference. This geographic information resource allows for extraction and comparison of data for specific geographic areas as small as a zip code or Census block. It also provides colored maps and spreadsheets for business plans.

SimplyAnalytics offers the following data for the U.S.:

• Nielsen PRIZM: Make comprehensive and precise insights when using lifestyle and consumer behavior segmentation. PRIZM by Nielsen defines every U.S. household in terms of 66 demographic and behavior types or segments. Helps discern consumer preferences, consumer spending, consumer behavior and lifestyles.
• Dun &Bradstreet Company Data: Access detailed profiles of more than 30 million U.S. businesses provided by D&B, the world's leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses. Add business points to your map to find the best place to locate your business, manage the competition, or identify services. Also export the data to a spreadsheet for additional functionality.
• Mediamark Research (MRI): Extract current estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of very specific and detailed products, including actual brand data.
• Historical Census Data: View 1980, 1990 and 2000 data to learn how geographic regions have changed over time.
• Accurate and up-to-date Street Data. Perform highly accurate location analysis to support critical business/social decisions. Create high quality presentation maps.
• Shapefiles & Data Export .SHP files into advanced Geographic Information (GIS) software.

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Statista is an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions in English, French, German and Spanish.

EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency.

World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean academic journals and news feeds covering the region reference articles and commentary maps and statistics audio and video and more.