The wide range of material included in American Indian Histories and Cultures presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.

American Indian Newspapers presents the publications of a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016.

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.

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (BIPNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America.

Colonial America makes available all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London, plus all extracted documents associated with them. This unique collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is an invaluable one for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world. Covering the period 1606 to 1822, CO 5 constitutes the original correspondence of the the colonial governments with the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State for the Southern Department and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, together holding responsibility for the British possessions in mainland North America and the Caribbean, making it a uniquely rich resource for all historians of the period. Colonial America includes 5 modules, organised thematically.

• Module 1: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries
• Module 2: Towards Revolution
• Module 3: The American Revolution
• Module 4: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies
• Module 5: Growth, Trade and Development

Contains materials that describe the interaction of peoples and events between 1534 and 1860 in North America documenting the impressions of the first European traders, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and officials. Materials include either natural features (descriptions of the animals and plants for example) or interactions among various cultural groups (Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, African, and a host of Indian peoples). The collection contains published and unpublished narratives, diaries, journals, letters, maps, memoirs and recorded speeches as well as images, all centered on present-day Canada and the United States (with some limited coverage of Mexico). The Indian perspective is recorded in a wide variety of sources, including oral accounts written down by Europeans at the time of contact and afterward, speeches, correspondence, and publications produced by Indians.

The collection has been compiled by consulting a number of bibliographies, including:
• A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924 by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins
• Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611, by David B. Quinn.
• The French image of America: a chronological and subject bibliography of French books printed before 1816 relating to the British North American colonies and the United States by Durand Echeverria and Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.
• Wagner & Camp's The Plains and the Rockies, a critical bibliography of exploration, adventure and travel in the American West, 1800-1865
• Robert Rogers Hubach's Early Midwestern Travel Narratives, An Annotated Bibliography, 1634-1850.
• Candiana.org - a full-text online collection that contains documents about Canadas history from the first European contact to the nineteenth century.
• Bibliography of Native North Americans, Human Relations Area Files, 1976

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With more than 700 unique titles and 350,000 pages dedicated to American Indian Law, the American Indian Law Collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. This collection also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible online.

Contains biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs presenting the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples. The database includes many seminal works, including the complete volumes of Edward Curtiss The North American Indian and the McKenney-Hall History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Autobiographies by Black Hawk, Enmegahbowh, and Sun Chief are included, as well as rare books representing King Philip, Red Jacket, Sequoyah, Thayendanegea, Plenty Coups, Standing Bear, John Ross, and Geronimo. Additional materials bring coverage through to the present. Virtually all North American regions and groups (500 nations) are represented in depth, including the Eskimos and Inuit of the Arctic the sub-Arctic Cree the Pacific Coastal Salish the Ojibwa, Cheyenne, and Sioux of the Plains the Luiseno, Pomo, and Miwok of California the Apache, Navajo, and Hopi of the Southwest the Creek and Cherokee of the Southeast the Peqout, Iroquois, and Seneca of the Northeast the Metis and Nez Perce of the Great Plateau and peoples of other regions.