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American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 is part of ProQuest History Vault's category of collections on American Politics and Society. It consists of collections from the U.S. National Archives, the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration.

Indexing and abstracting of all congressional publications: hearings, including never-published hearings that have been released by the National Archives and indexed by ProQuest staff; House and Senate reports and documents; and Committee Prints. Congressional Base also includes bill full text, tracking and profiles; the full text of the Daily Congressional Record, the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; member and committee info; campaign finance and member voting data; and political news.

Declassified U.S. government documents providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth century history, politics, and international relations.

The letters, memoranda, directives, and other documents from Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his days as World War II general to his terms as President of the United States (1941-1961).

Full text articles that cover a wide range of topics during the American Civil War era from 1840-1865.

Scanned copies of primary materials covering American history and culture, primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes collections on: African American newspapers; woman's suffrage; the Civil War; and World War I.
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Resource covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including military history, women's history, history of education . ONLY 6 Concurrent Users.
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History and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
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History Research Guide

Essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to particular eras in U.S. history, from 1900 to 1999. Contained in GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library).

Covers events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to particular eras in U.S. history, from pre-1600 to 1899. Contained in GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library).

EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
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The official history of every American territory before it became an American state, sourced from the National Archives of the United States. Consists of Native American negotiations and treaties, official correspondence with the federal government, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, land records, and more.

Collection of dramatic works from the early 19th century to its close. It includes historical plays, melodramas, political satires, minstrel shows, comic operas, musical extravaganzas, parlor entertainments, adaptations of novels, and more.

British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800.
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Contains full text articles from the late 1600s to the 1900s, and covers literature, philosophy, history, science, music and art, and more.

Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Digitizations of the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century. Excellent primary sources to study Britain's social, political, and economic history.

Biographies of figures in British history, with extensive internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original DNB, navigation by themes and multiple other search options.

Provides a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Demonstrates the background on the current and historical usage of words through over 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of English-language sources.

Provides access to both the British House of Commons and the House of Lords Sessional Papers from the 19th century. Also includes the Hansard Parliamentary debates from 1803 to 2005.

Collection of early-modern historical documents from the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I/VI. More than 150,000 pages have been digitized in full color to create a definitive online archive of almost 30,000 manuscript documents written by some of the most significant figures of Elizabethan and Jacobean history. These are accompanied by the complete Calendar of the Cecil Papers, featuring summaries and/or transcripts of many documents and two eighteenth-century volumes of selected transcriptions.