United States History Resources

Indigenous Histories and Cultures includes manuscripts, artwork, rare printed books, photographs, newspapers, original documents, maps, and travel journals from the earliest contact with European settlers up to the mid-twentieth century.

Indigenous Newspapers offers publications from historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.

American West contains original manuscripts, ephemeral material , maps, and rare printed works from the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Early Encounters in North America contains documents on relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides perspectives from all of the protagonists.

Frontier Life covers the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia from 1650-1920, and includes correspondence, diaries, government papers, business records, land transactions, legal documents, speeches, books and pamphlets.

Access guaranteed through May 2027
Indian Claims Insight offers compiled docket histories, court documents, cites treaties, related congressional publications, maps, and histories for both Court of Claims and Indian Claims Commissions dockets.