U. S. History: Colonial through 1800: Primary Source Databases

From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this archive documents American history from the earliest settlers to until the end of World War II.

Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, with emphasis on the early years. Access limited to UT users.

Newspaper full-text from 1728-1800. Access is limited to UT users.

South Carolina newspapers from the Colonial Period.

Contains full-text periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.

Explores primary sources dating from the earliest contact with European settlers to the mid-twentieth century.

Full-text based on the bibliography of works on the Americas compiled by Joseph Sabin. Covers 1500-1926. Access is limited to UT users.

Searchable full-text versions of the papers of key individuals in the founding of the American republic.

Contains full-text of the Company records plus added material on the history of colonial Virgina.

Large database of information for individuals including census records, birth, marriage and death records and immigration records. Includes material from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Full-text of documents from 1600-2000. Access is limited to UT users.

A collection of six searchable genealogical and historical resources, including U.S. federal census records from 1790-1930 and over 20,000 book titles. Access is limited to UT users.

Full-text primary source collection documenting the impact of invasion and colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge.

Citations to European books and other works related to the Americas. Based on the bibliography "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750."

Primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years.

Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.

Primary source documents from 1490 to 2007 related to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world.

This database provides the complete CO 5 files from the National Archives in London, England. These records cover the official correspondence between the Board of Trade & Secretaries of State & the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean. To be completed with 5 modules. Module 3, which covers the American Revolution, has just been released.

Access to manuscript papers and bibliographic records concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies. Coverage from 1574-1757.

A digitized collection of predominantly London newspapers of the 17th & 18th centuries. Also includes broadsides, newsbooks, pamphlets, periodicals, and a few provincial newspapers.

Full-text of virtually every book printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North America from 1473-1700. Also includes English-language material from other countries. Digitzed from the Short Title Catalog I and II and the Thomason Tracts.

Full-text of books published in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the 18th century.

Full-text of journals published in the 18th century from the collections of several libraries including the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London.

Searchable full-text of House of Commons sessional documents from 1715 to 1834 with supplementary material back to 1688. Contains many key documents for the American colonies.

Includes full-text of British government documents for the early history of the American colonies, primarily in the Calendar of State Papers colonial series.