History

Digitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals published between 1684 and 1912. (EBSCO)

Contains magazine and journal articles for nearly all research areas and areas of interest. The full text for most articles is available. (EBSCO)

Encyclopedia content plus multimedia, timelines, world data analyst, country comparison, and the Britannica blog.

A compilation of more than 420,000 primary source documents, complete books, and authentic images across a variety of subject areas. Includes close reading strategies for connecting with historical texts and primary source documents.

The HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history collection, featuring about 2,700 individuals telling their stories in more than 148,000 video clips each running 1-5 minutes long.

The collection's aim is to provide an integrated scholarly and educational resource for exploring African American history and culture. It is unique among collections of African American heritage because of its large and varied scope, with interviewees from across the United States, from a variety of fields, and with memories stretching from the 1890s to the present.

Available to Saint Paul Library cardholders.

To access from outside of the library:

1. Enter "Saint Paul Public Library" in the Non-University Login search box.
2. Click the search result that comes up for the library.
3. On the next page, under "Saint Paul Public Library", enter your library card number and click Go.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such art, history, sports and music, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.

Search the full-text of the Minneapolis Labor Review, 1907-2016.

The history of Minnesota depicted in images and documents from historical societies, public libraries, special archives, universities, and colleges.

Research records held by the National Archives and find information on how to get started with archival research.

Full text of the New York Times, 1851 - 2017.

Reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.

Topics range from the arrival of Vikings in North America all to the way to the first stirrings of the American Revolution and on through the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.

At the Saint Paul Public Library:

Access U.S. History (Gale in Context) here, no library card needed.

World History (Gale In Context) reaches back to the ancient world - and forward to today's headlines - to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race.

Rare primary sources, reliable reference, and multi-media content put this vast topic into context for students.

At the Saint Paul Public Library:

Access World History (Gale in Context) here, no library card needed.