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Special Collections and Archives Research Center

Historical Books and Magazines

American Periodicals Series (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Digitized images from American magazines and journals -- 1741 to 1900. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal
Atlantic Monthly Archive [1857-2014] (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th and early 21st-Century American thought.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text of the New York Times back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from 1858 to four years ago.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from 1881 - 1997.
Life Magazine Archive [1936-2000] (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format
Historic Oregon Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This full-text searchable database contains almost 1,300,000 pages from Oregon newspapers dated 1846 - current, and new titles are added regularly.

History Vault -- Primary sources

American Indians and the American West (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new window
This module contains several collections focusing on the interaction between American Indians and the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Women's Studies (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary sources provides access to a variety of valuable collections, such as:
- Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents
- Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990
- Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps
- Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new window
This category consists of the NAACP Papers and federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers regarding the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century. With a timeline that runs from 1909 to 1972, the NAACP Papers document the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond.
American Politics and Society (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new window
This module consists of records of the FBI and the Subversive Activities Control Board from 1945-1972. Highlights of this module include J. Edgar Hoover's office files; documentation on the FBI's so-called "black bag jobs," as they were called before being renamed "surreptitious entries"; and the "Do Not File" File.

Podcasts

Past and the Curious
A history podcast for kids.