Explore key chapters in American history through Sources in U.S. History Online

Sources in U.S. History Online is a thematically-organized collection providing information surrounding important individuals, influential perspectives, religions, political operations, and warfare from the eras that have shaped the United States.

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Metadata including source library, place of publication, publisher, indexes, full text, front matter, and more allows researchers and students to quickly get precise results.

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Developed by an editorial board of academic advisors, the topic guide provides thematic organization of and context for the documents within Sources in U.S. History Online.

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At request, Gale will deliver data and metadata associated with Gale Primary Sources collections for use in data mining and textual analysis, supporting the digital humanities as a growing area of scholarly research.

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