Free Databases (all subjects): History

Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

Includes facts, narratives, analysis, and photographic materials related to the American Civil War, from military, political, and social perspectives.

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

Produced by the Library of Congress, American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

A database from Brown University of pictures of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra Del Fuego based entirely on primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.

"Approximately 1 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Full-text of primary documents in law, history and diplomacy. Contains special collections such at 9/11, Cold War, and Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents. Also includes international documents.

Contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922

European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” The database is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

Published by the Library of Congress since 1936, HLAS Online is an annotated scholarly bibliography of Latin American resources. Coverage alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities, and each year more than 5,000 items are selected for inclusion.

Designed for high school and college history teachers, this site contains a wealth of information about primary sources and historical methodologies. In addition to syllabi, suggested readings, quizzes, lesson plans, and historical analysis, the History Matters site contains several useful reference sources and "secrets of great history teachers."

Includes various collections from History to Art to Birds, mostly primary sources.

Provides digitized access to 12 full text journals from the 1831-1900. Useful for finding original articles published in the 19th century. Contains a different list of journals than those included in the Cornell site.

Extensive digital library of primary source texts and artifacts, covering Ancient Greece and Rome, the English Renaissance, and early North American history.

Provides access to more than one million historically significant digital images, some of which can be freely downloaded.

RAMBI is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and the study of Eretz Israel. RAMBI is the Hebrew language acronym for Reshimat Ma'amarim be-Mada'ei ha-Yahadut=Index to Articles on Jewish Studies. The database is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles. Coverage goes back to 1960.

Vincent Voice Library collection of over 40,000 hours of spoken word recordings, dating back to 1888. The collection includes the voices of over 100,000 persons from all walks of life.