U.S. & World History

Profiles of 200+ countries and territories, U.S. states, and Canadian provinces and territories. Learn about daily life and culture, recipes, flags, maps, national anthems, statistics and more. Video Tutorial (16:31)

Search for articles, documents, ebooks, maps, and reference works on subjects relating to world history. Get help with researching topics and writing citations.  Classic version.

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Explore America's past and present as recorded by the news media through a wide and diverse lens. Fully searchable digital resources reveal United States history through the experiences, contributions, values, beliefs, and perspectives of a variety of American ethnicities and cultures. Suggested Searches are built into each Life in America resource to help connect to content organized by historical eras, themes, topical areas, and events.

• Asian Life in America
• Black Life in America
• Hispanic Life in America
• Immigrant Life in America
• Indigenous Life in America
• LGBTQ Life in America

This historical newspaper collection provides genealogists and researchers with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

• Chicago Tribute Historical, 1849 - 2016
• Los Angeles Times Historical, 1881 - 2017
• New York Times Historical, 1851 - 2022
• Wall Street Journal Historical, 1889 - 2014
• Washington Post Historical, 1877 - 2009

Search and view over 20,000 historical newspapers from the 1600s to the present day. This ProQuest collection from Ancestry features full-page images of local, state, and international papers, making it an excellent tool for genealogy, family history, and researching historical events.

Comprehensive index of popular general-interest magazines published in the United States reflecting the history of 20th century America. This resource primarily includes citations, but there are a limited number of items availaible in full text. Includes an option to search for peer-reviewed sources. Once you've found a citation for an article you want to read, ask a librarian if you need help finding the article's full text.

Historical maps for the states of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. 

Provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.  Search reference sources, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary sources, images, videos, audio files, and see links to curated web sites.

Research resources for human history of the world. Find topics about human civilizations, countries, cultures, economics, events, periods or eras, human rights, political organizations, religions, and wars. Includes reference and encyclopedia entries, biographies, news articles, primary sources, and academic journals.