CGS HIST 101: History of the United States to 1865

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History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, 113,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 112,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.

Search primary sources and documentary films (secondary sources) related to topics in US and Europe from the following collections: American History in Video; Early Encounters in North America; North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories; The Gilded Age; The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974; British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries; North American Women's Letters and Diaries; Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000; and Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019