Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
Coverage: 18th century to the early 20th century
Available on History Commons platform. Primary source material from the 18th century to the early 20th century devoted to American history, particularly strong in African American newspapers, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Women's Suffrage, and World War I. Information archived is from leading historical periodicals and books, and includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Databases are encyclopedic in scope and allow full Boolean, group, name, string, and truncated searches. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically.
Click to browse or search one of the major collections below:
- African American Newspapers
- African American Newspapers in the South, 1870-1926
- The AMAROC News, 1919-1923
- America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers
- American County Histories
- American Inventor
- Anatomy of Protest in America
- The Canadian Observer
- The Civil War
- Frank Leslie's Weekly
- Godey’s Lady’s Book
- History of Woman Suffrage
- The Liberator
- National Anti-Slavery Standard
- The Pennsylvania Gazette
- The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue
- The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
- 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
