Subscription Databases

Accessible Archives was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. Highlights include thePennsylvania Gazette, South Carolina and Virginia Newspapers, the Liberator, African American Newspapers, and an extensive Civil War collection.

This growing collection of fully searchable historical American and Hispanic American newspapers is the most extensive resource of its kind. Features nearly 2,000 titles from all 50 states. See the product page for more information.

This gateway provides scholars with remote access to entire primary sources for the purpose of academic study and research across many disciplines. Includes: minutes of political parties; reports of national institutions; official government publications; commercial archives relating to the Industrial Revolution, the slave trade or colonisation; the papers of individuals prominent in the history of Britain and its Empire during the modern era; the Communist Party of Great Britain; missionary, naval and other records relating to Africa, Asia and the Americas.

This release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. Particular care has been taken to index this material so it can be searched more thoroughly than ever. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The product includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor.

Fold3 (formerly Footnote.com) provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. Collection highlights include the papers of the American Colonization Society, the Amistad federal court records, the Mathew Brady Civil War Photos, the documents of the Southern Claims Commission, Slave Court Records for the District of Columbia, the Registro Central de Esclavos for Puerto Rico, and Slavery and Emancipation in the Danish West Indies.

Full text of Congressional hearings (published and unpublished), bills and resolutions, Serial Set, reports, prints, documents, Congressional Record, legislative histories for enacted laws, and Congressional Research Service reports, from 1789 to the present. An especially fecund source for legislative debates over slavery. See also the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980.

A historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents selected by a renowned board of scholars and organized in four parts. Part one contains 1.5 million pages, including more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections. Highlights include collections from Oberlin and Oxford, the American Missionary Association Archives, and the papers of Thomas Fowell Buxton, Lewis Tappan, and Salmon Chase.

This digital edition of the American Antiquarian Society’s extraordinary holdings of slavery and abolition materials delivers more than 3,500 works published over the course of more than 100 years. Long awaited in fully searchable form, The American Slavery Collection addresses every facet of American slavery—one of the most important and controversial topics in U.S. history.  These diverse materials, all filmed in full-resolution color, include books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera; among them are a large number of invaluable Southern imprints.