Collection Development and Strategies Department
Featured Database: History Commons North America
You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!
- This month, we highlight an abolition, suffrage, and wartime historical database: History Commons North America.
What’s in it?
- This database contains an exciting collection of pamphlets, speeches, magazines, newspapers, journal articles, and books on U.S. History.
- It includes nearly 400 topics, with notable collections on abolition, suffrage, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War.
Why should you use it?
- History Commons North America collects materials from over 1,200 institutions across the U.S. and includes more than 148,000 documents.
- Large collections of primary sources are a valuable resource for anyone conducting historical research.
Who should use it?
- Anyone interested in U.S. history.
Why use a database?
When you use a specific database rather than a search engine or discovery tool, you can often find more relevant sources. Subject databases focus on a single topic, so you don’t have to sort through thousands of unrelated results.
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