Social, economic and cultural history
Discover one of the foremost collections in the UK supporting historical research into social, economic and cultural history.
Subject Librarian: Argula Rublack
Email: Argula.Rublack@london.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7862 8455
Collection Description
Senate House Library’s history collections cover a broad chronological and geographical scope to support historical research. The collections have a strong international focus with distinctive strengths in British, Irish, European, United States, Imperial and Commonwealth as well as Latin American history. Chronologically the collections span from late antiquity and the Middle Ages to modern and contemporary history. Some of the thematic strengths of the collections lie in Victorian and Edwardian culture and society, the history of welfare and social reform, the history of education and the origins and development of industrial societies.
The history collections provide an extensive research collection of print and e-books, journals, newspapers, theses and microfilms. We offer a broad and growing selection of databases and electronic resources. Additionally, Senate House Library has acquired a wealth of special collections and archives of unique and rare materials over the course of its history, which we are still continuously expanding. To explore our unique historical collections further, consult our guides to Senate House Library’s printed special collections and archives and manuscripts.
Locating and accessing material
The best way to start finding history resources at Senate House Library is to use the catalogue.
The open access history collection is located on the 5th floor and continues in the Periodicals Room gallery on the 4th floor below. New acquisitions for the history collections are shelved in the Periodicals Room on the 4th floor. The floorplan in reading and study spaces will help you navigate the collections. Books and journals held in the stacks and off-site can be requested through the fetch service on the catalogue.
Most of our e-book collections can be found on Ebook Central. All e-resources and databases for history are listed on the A-Z Databases list on our LibGuides platform.
Special collections and archive material must be ordered in advanceand consulted in the special collections reading room. Some of these collections are available as part of our e-Resources. They can be found on our list of Digitised UoL special collections and archives on our LibGuides platform.
Subject areas
Black History is strongly represented across many of Senate House Library’s collections, particularly the library’s area collections of United States studies, Commonwealth studies and Latin American studies, for the peoples of the Caribbean. The main history collections on the fifth floor feature the histories of Black peoples who have settled in Britain, Europe and elsewhere. Other aspects of Black lives are spread across the library’s social science collections. New entries into the collection can be found in the Periodicals Room on the fourth floor.
Useful classmarks
| Section | 4th floor (Periodicals Room) |
|---|---|
| DA125 | History of Black people in Great Britain |
| E441-453 | History of enslavement in the United States |
| E185 | African American history |
| HT1521 | Race discrimination, race relations and racism |
| Section | 5th floor |
|---|---|
| MUG | History of Black people in Britain |
| Periodicals Room gallery | |
|---|---|
| OS | Africa – General history |
| OT | Northern Africa |
| OU | Eastern Africa |
| OV | Southern Africa |
| QW | Central Africa |
| OX | Western Africa |
| Section | 6th floor - United States Studies Collection |
|---|---|
| NEQ | Histories of African American enslavement, the abolition movement, the narratives of enslaved people and the lives of prominent abolitionists |
| NER | African American history after abolition and the American Civil War, including the lives of prominent civil rights campaigners such as Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcom X |
| NERD | The civil rights question |
| NERF | Black Panther movement |
| Commonwealth Studies collection | Latin American Studies collection | |
|---|---|
| Section | 7th floor |
| KDJ | Race discrimination, race relations and racism |
| TGBC | Black people in employment |
| QIS3 | History of enslavement and abolition |
| QWE | Black women |
Special Collections
The Ron Heisler collection contains pamphlets and ephemera relating to the civil rights movement in the United States, and race discrimination, racism and anti-racism in Great Britain.
The Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature holds a considerable amount of primary sources from the 18th and 19th century on the slave trade and abolition movement. Some of this material is available online on The Making of the Modern World(Opens in new window).
The Porteus Library, which constitutes the working library of Beilby Porteus (1731-1809), Bishop of London and a leading advocate for the abolition of the slave trade, contains items relating to enslavement and the trade in enslaved people.
The Library’s Political Pamphlet collections, compiled by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies from current and former members of the Commonwealth, include materials from several Caribbean and African countries. They largely date from the 1960s and 1970s and give insight into processes of decolonisation and transitions to independence. The pamphlets can be explored by country through Senate House Library’s archive catalogue by using the Advanced Search function(Opens in new window) and filtering by the Reference code “PP” (standing for Political Pamphlets).
Archives
We hold several archives, including those of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, which have important sources for the study of Black history.
- records on apartheid in South Africa(Opens in new window)
- the papers of the African National Congress (Opens in new window)
- the papers of the Caribbean Council for Europe (CCE)(Opens in new window)
- materials from the Britain Tanzania Society(Opens in new window)
- materials from the Britain Zimbabwe Society(Opens in new window)
- a photographic collection of Soweto and the 1976 uprising(Opens in new window) (c1960-c1977) from the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa
- archives on the history of enslavement and enslaved people
- the papers of C L R James(Opens in new window) (1901 – 1989), Trinidadian writer and political activist
- the papers of Billy Strachan(Opens in new window) (1921-1998), Jamaican air force pilot, lawyer and political activist
- the papers of Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews(Opens in new window) (1901-1968), South African political activist and academic
- microfilm copies of the papers of Richard Hart(Opens in new window) (1917-2013), Jamaican historian and politician
- the Paul and Adelaide Joseph archive(Opens in new window) (covering ca. 1962-2022), South African anti-apartheid activists
E-resources
Our e-resources offer a range of options to study the topics which can be viewed in the Black histories and studies category on our Eresources A-Z list(Opens in new window) including among others Black Studies Center(Opens in new window) and Black Thought and Culture(Opens in new window).
Doing your own searches
To discover clusters of material on specific topics, here are some suggested search terms (subject headings) you can use in our online catalogue(Opens in new window). Please note that some of the terminology used in the catalogue may not reflect current language use.
- Africans
- African Americans
- African diaspora
- Black people
- Race discrimination
- West Indians
- Slavery
- Racism
- Women, Black
For Black British History:
- Africans -- Great Britain -- History.
- Black people -- England.
- Black people -- England -- London.
- Black people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
- Ethnicity -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Race relations.
- Immigrants -- Great Britain.
- Jamaicans in London.
- Minorities -- Great Britain.
- Multiculturalism -- Great Britain.
- Racism -- Great Britain.
- West Indians in London.
- West Indians -- Great Britain.
- West Indians -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Additional resources
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) has a helpful guide on Caribbean Studies Collections(Opens in new window).
The resources Senate House Library offers to study cultural history are broad and varied and intersect with many other collection strengths. British cultural history is strongly represented, especially the culture of the Victorian and Edwardian era.
European cultural history is another strength of the collection with specialist holdings in German history, which can be found in the former Institute of Germanic Studies library in the Middlesex North Reading Room (4th floor). Beyond Europe, the Library has strong holdings concerning the cultures of the current and former member nations of the Commonwealth, Latin America and the United States on the 6th floor (for more information see our guides on Commonwealth studies(Opens in new window) and Latin American studies(Opens in new window)).
Useful classmarks
| Section | 4th floor (Periodicals Room) |
|---|---|
| B1-5802 | Philosophy – general history by period |
| CB | History of civilisation |
| D-F | Cultural history for individual countries |
| Section | 5th floor |
|---|---|
| LGC | History of civilisations - social, economic and political |
| LGF | History of intellectual progress |
| MAC- | European civilisation |
| MACD | Renaissance |
| MBM | Europe – medieval civilisation |
| MDC | Europe – 20th century social and cultural History |
| History of country + H | Social history (for example: MUH – British social history) |
| History of country + I | Intellectual life (for example: MRI – French intellectual life) |
| Section | 7th floor |
|---|---|
| KF-KG | Society |
Special collections
The library holds two unique collections to study Spanish cultural history, the Eliot-Phelips Collection and the Gili Catalan Collection (for more information on our European collections see our guide on Art and cultural memory(Opens in new window)). Russian cultural history and the interactions of Europeans with Russia is documented in the M.S. Anderson Collection(Opens in new window). Beyond Europe, the Library has strong holdings concerning the cultures of the current and former member nations of the Commonwealth as well as those of Latin America (for more information see our guides on Commonwealth studies(Opens in new window) and Latin American studies(Opens in new window)).
One of the unique strengths of the collections is in the history of magic and the occult, represented in the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature(Opens in new window) (for more information see our guide on The paranormal, the occult and the magical(Opens in new window)).
E-resources
- Bloomsbury Cultural History(Opens in new window)
- ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online(Opens in new window)
- Early Modern England(Opens in new window)
- Food and Drink in History(Opens in new window)
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975(Opens in new window)
- Victorian Popular Culture(Opens in new window)
Doing your own searches
To discover clusters of material on specific topics, here are some suggested search terms (subject headings) you can use in our online catalogue(Opens in new window):
- Architecture and history
- Art and history
- Cultural -- History
- Civilization -- [country]
- Cultural history of women
- Design and history
- Ethnohistory
- Intellectual life
- Intellectual history
- Literature and history
- Manners and customs
- Motion pictures and history
- Music and history
- Progress
- Television and history
- Specific civilizations, for example “Islamic Civilization”
Works on the economic and social histories of Britain and Europe can be found within the history collections and other parts of the library collections. The Library also has significant holdings on the economic and social history of the United States, Latin America, and the former and current members of the Commonwealth, all of which can be found on the 6th floor.
Useful classmarks
| Section | 4th floor (Periodicals Room) |
|---|---|
| CB | History of civilisation |
| HB501 | Economic theory |
| HC21 | Economic history and conditions – General works |
| Section | 5th floor |
|---|---|
| LGD | History of progress |
| MAC | European civilisation |
| [Country] + E | Economic history (for example: MRE – France, Economic history) |
| [Country] + H | Social history (for example: MUH – Great Britain, Social history) |
| Section | 6th floor - United States Studies collection |
|---|---|
| NEE | United States – Economic History |
| NEH | United States – Social History |
| Section | 7th floor |
|---|---|
| T8-9 | History of economics and economic thought |
| TAT | Economic development |
| TD3 | History of industrialisation |
| TG3 | History of labour |
| TJ3 | History of business |
| TR3 | History of banking |
| UA3 | History of agriculture |
Special collections and archives
The Library’s most significant holding in economic history is the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature(Opens in new window) with around 70,000 printed items spanning from the 15th to the 20th century. Access to the full text of most items in the Goldsmiths’ Library published before 1851 and some published 1851-1914 is available online on The Making of the Modern World(Opens in new window).
The collections feature especially strong holdings on the social history of 19th-century Britain and its social reform movements. Among these are the papers of the social reformer and researcher Charles Booth(Opens in new window), the John Burns collection(Opens in new window) of over 5,000 books, pamphlets and periodical volumes and the Family Welfare Association Library(Opens in new window), which has now become the charity Family Action.
The Library has collected many materials representing the lives and thought of alternative social movements and groups. Some example of these are archives related to the temperance movement(Opens in new window) and the Ron Heisler collection(Opens in new window) of left-wing and radical political movements (for more information see our guide on Political activism, protest and counter-culture(Opens in new window).
E-resources
- Business, Economic & Labour History(Opens in new window)
- Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange(CHECK LINK)
- Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism (CHECK LINK)
- The Making of the Modern World (CHECK LINK)
- Mass Observation (CHECK LINK)
- Medieval Family Life(Opens in new window)
- Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain(CHECK LINK)
- Women and Social Movements(Opens in new window)
Doing your own searches
To discover clusters of material on specific topics, here are some suggested search terms (subject headings) you can use in our online catalogue(Opens in new window):
- Aristocracy
- Business
- Capitalism
- Civilization
- Commerce
- [Country] -- Economic conditions
- [Country] -- Social conditions
- Economic history
- Economic History -- [country/period of history]
- Economics, political aspects
- Labor
- Labor and laboring classes
- Manners and customs
- Social Conflict
- Social History
- Working Class
As the library of one of the oldest universities in the UK, Senate House Library has amassed important materials on the history of education. One of them is the Quick Memorial Library(Opens in new window) with over 1,000 printed items on education from the mid-16th to the end of the 19th century. In addition, we have several archives on education(Opens in new window), including the University of London’s own archive(Opens in new window).
One of the more unusual collections in the Library is the EPCOM collection(Opens in new window) of about 400 school textbooks used during the Third Reich which were confiscated by the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in the post-war period.
As part of our e-resources, we subscribe to the Education Magazine Archive(Opens in new window).
History of gender and sexuality
Senate House Library holds numerous collections to research the history of sexuality and gender. Among our special collections we hold the Craig collection(Opens in new window) that consists mainly of early to mid-twentieth-century books in English, French and German on sexual customs and practices alongside some works of literary and artistic erotica, offering an intriguing insight into the history of sexuality.
Supplementing our printed holdings are the following e-resources:
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910(Opens in new window)
- Gender: Identity and Social Change(Opens in new window)
- Men’s Magazine Archive(Opens in new window)
- Sex and Sexuality(Opens in new window)
Women’s history
Among our collections to study women’s history there are many items in the Ron Heisler collection(Opens in new window) which give insight into feminist movements throughout the 19th and 20th centuries (for more information see our guide on Political activism, protest and counter-culture(Opens in new window).
Supplementing our printed holdings are the following e-resources:
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present(Opens in new window)
- Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990(Opens in new window)
- Women and Social Movements in the U.S.(Opens in new window)
- Women and Social Movements, International(Opens in new window)
- Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820(Opens in new window)
- Women in the National Archives(Opens in new window)
- Women's Magazine Archive (1846-2005)(Opens in new window)
- Women's Studies(Opens in new window)
LGBTQIA+ history
LGBTQIA+ history and culture are increasingly significant collecting areas a Senate House Library. The Library’s Ron Heisler collection(Opens in new window) includes items which give insight into queer activism throughout the 20th century (for more information see our guide on Political activism, protest and counter-culture(Opens in new window)).
We have a guide to e-resources for the study of LGBTQ+ studies(Opens in new window) including Archives of Sexuality and Gender(Opens in new window), LGBT Thought and Culture(Opens in new window) and LGBT Magazine Archive(Opens in new window).
Part of the deposits at Senate House Library include the papers of several significant 20th-century historians(Opens in new window), many of which had affiliations with the University of London and its federal members.
English historian and former president of the Royal Historical Society (1901-1905) Sir George Walter Prothero’s collection(Opens in new window) of English and European history between 1880 and 1914 is also part of the Library’s collections.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies archives, held at Senate House Library, also contain papers of the historian Sir (William) Keith Hancock (1898-1988)(Opens in new window).
Senate House holds a small but extensively used and popular collection on the history of science which is located on the 7th floor. New additions to the collection on the history of science can be found in the Periodicals Room on the fourth floor.
Useful classmarks
| Section | 4th floor (Periodicals Room) |
|---|---|
| Q124-130 | History of science |
| R130.5 | History of medicine |
| Section | 7th floor |
|---|---|
| AK3 | History of science |
| AKA | Philosophy of science |
| AM3 | History of mathematics |
| HM3 | History of Medicine |
| HH-HI | Health and public health |
Special collections
The Library holds the De Morgan library(Opens in new window) which boasts an extensive collection of rare books on the history of mathematics. The rare books in the collection from pre-1600(Opens in new window) have been digitised and are available as part of our e-resources.
Doing your own searches
To discover clusters of material on specific topics, here are some suggested search terms (subject headings) you can use in our online catalogue(Opens in new window):
- Science – History -- [century]
- Science -- [country] -- [country]
- Science, Medieval
- Science, Renaissance.
- Science -- Philosophy – History
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Scientific expeditions
- Scientists
- Medicine -- History -- [century]
- Medicine -- [country] -- History
The history of travel and exploration are widely covered in the Library’s collections. Our holdings also support research into the history of migration, particularly the study of exile and forced migration(Opens in new window) in European history.
Useful classmarks
| Section | 4th floor (Periodicals Room) |
|---|---|
| G149-922 | Voyages and travel |
| JV6001-9480 | Emigration and immigration |
| Section | 5th floor |
|---|---|
| L34 | Discovery and exploration |
| M3K | History of Europe – description and travel |
| Section | 7th floor |
|---|---|
| BU-BU3 | History of space travel |
| BL | Migration |
Special collections
One of the highlights of our collections is the M.S. Anderson Collection(Opens in new window), which features many travel narratives, personal accounts of time spent in Russia and other writings documenting western European perceptions of Russia between 1525 and 1917. Another significant source for those studying these histories is the E.G.R. Taylor Collection of Historic Printed Maps(Opens in new window).
E-resources
Supplementing our printed holdings are the following e-resources:
- Age of Exploration(Opens in new window)
- Border and Migration Studies online(Opens in new window)
- Medieval Travel Writing(Opens in new window)
- Migration to New Worlds(Opens in new window)
- Missionary Studies(Opens in new window)
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History(Opens in new window)
Doing your own searches
To discover clusters of material on specific topics, here are some suggested search terms (subject headings) you can use in our online catalogue(Opens in new window):
- Adventure and adventurers
- [Country] -- Description and travel
- [Country] -- Discovery and exploration.
- Discoveries in geography
- Emigration and immigration
- Maps
- Outer space exploration
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages
- Voyages and travels
- Voyages, Imaginary
Senate House Library houses the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) collection, an extensive research-level collection that covers the Commonwealth and its member nations across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Oceania and Europe, their histories and the history of the British Empire (for more information see our guide on Commonwealth studies).
Useful classmarks
| Section | 4th floor (Periodicals Room) |
|---|---|
| DA10-18.2 | History of the British Empire and the Commonwealth |
| DS1-937 | History of Asia |
| DT1-3415 | History of Africa |
| DU1-950 | History of Oceania |
| JC359 | Political Science – Great Britain – Empire |
| Section | Periodicals Room gallery |
|---|---|
| N | History of the Americas |
| O | Australasia, Asia and Africa |
| Section | 5th floor |
|---|---|
| LGL | History of Imperialism |
| MAK | European Imperialism and Decolonisation |
| MZA-MZT | British colonial and imperial history |
| Section | 6th floor |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth Studies collection | |
| Latin American Studies collection | |
Special collections and archives
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) has over 230 archival collections. The archives contain materials relating to the history of the British Empire and the Commonwealth from the 18th to the 20th century. Many Commonwealth countries and former British colonies are represented, but holdings on South Africa and the Caribbean are especially strong. The archives of Commonwealth organisations (such as the Commonwealth Trade Union Council(Opens in new window) and the Commonwealth Press Union(Opens in new window)) and the papers of Commonwealth Studies researchers are further strengths among the holdings. ICWS archives can be searched through Senate House Library’s archive catalogue by using the Advanced Search function(Opens in new window) and filtering by the Repository “Institute of Commonwealth Studies”.
Political archives of pamphlets collected by ICWS from current and former members of the Commonwealth extend to material from over 60 countries. They largely date from the 1960s and 1970s and give insight into processes of decolonisation and transitions to independence. The pamphlets can be explored through Senate House Library’s catalogue(Opens in new window).
Besides ICWS’s holdings Senate House Library’s special collections and archives provide further material to study the British Empire and Commonwealth.
- The Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature(Opens in new window) covers British imperial economics, trade and related issues during the 16th-20th centuries.
- The Prothero Collection(Opens in new window) covers the period 1880-1914 including materials on Irish home rule. The Bromhead Library(Opens in new window) includes holdings on the early colonisation of Australia.
- The Ron Heisler collection(Opens in new window) includes print materials from the late 19th- and 20th century relating to anti-imperialist movements. The archives include several manuscripts and collections of papers relating to the British Empire.
There are clusters of papers connected to the East India Company:
- (MS56(Opens in new window)
- MS84(Opens in new window)
- MS153(Opens in new window)
- MS226(Opens in new window)
- MS260(Opens in new window)
- MS712(Opens in new window)
- MS713(Opens in new window)
- MS938(Opens in new window)
The South Sea Company:
- (MS89(Opens in new window)
- MS218(Opens in new window)
- MS394(Opens in new window)
- MS490(Opens in new window)
The Papers of the Lewin family(Opens in new window) (fl 1770-1926), who were residents of British India, contain Thomas Herbert Lewin’s papers reflecting his interest in India and its languages.
For those interested in the history of enslavement and apartheid, detailed archival subject guides are available:
E-resources
Our e-resources grant access to further primary source and research materials:
- African Writers Series(Opens in new window)
- Age of Exploration(Opens in new window)
- Colonial America(Opens in new window)
- Colonial Caribbean, Module I: Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832(Opens in new window)
- Colonial State Papers (1574 – 1757)(Opens in new window)
- Confidential Print series on Archives Direct(Opens in new window)
- Documents on British Policy Overseas (1898 - 1990)(Opens in new window)
- East India Company(Opens in new window)
- Empire Online(Opens in new window)
- Empire Studies(Opens in new window)
- Frontier Life(Opens in new window)
- India, Raj and Empire(Opens in new window)
- Making of the Modern World(Opens in new window)
- Missionary Studies(Opens in new window)
- Virginia Company Archives(Opens in new window)
Doing your own searches
To discover clusters of material on specific topics, here are some suggested search terms (subject headings) you can use in our online catalogue(Opens in new window):
- Anti-imperialist movements
- Autonomy and independence movements
- Colonies
- Colonization
- Decolonization
- Great Britain -- Colonies
- Imperialism
- Postcolonialism
Senate House Library holds an extensive collection on the history of the city of London and its surroundings covering culture, economy, politics, society and topography.
Useful classmarks
| Section | 4th floor (Periodicals room) |
|---|---|
| DA677 | London history |
| Section | 5th floor |
|---|---|
| MWB | London Docklands |
| MWC | London history |
| MWC Lon | Survey of London (also available on British History Online(Opens in new window)) |
| MWD-MWE | History of areas of London |
Special collections
One highlight of the collection is the Bromhead Library(Opens in new window) which holds over 4,000 rare printed items on London history. Historical materials published about and within London can also be found across our other special collections.
E-resources
To complement our holdings, we subscribe to the e-resource London Low Life, which includes digitised images of rare materials related to 18th, 19th and early 20th-century London, alongside other digital resources listed on our A-Z Databases list.
Doing your own searches
To discover clusters of material on specific topics, here are some suggested search terms (subject headings) you can use in our online catalogue(Opens in new window):
- London (England) -- Antiquities
- London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
- London (England) -- Commerce
- London (England) -- Description and travel
- London (England) -- Gilds
- London (England) -- History
- London (England) -- Intellectual life
- London (England) -- Politics and government
- London (England) -- Social life and customs
- Minorities -- England -- London
The U.S. Studies collection is located on the 6th floor
The U.S. Studies collection is a substantial, research-level collection with broad coverage of the history, institutions and culture of the United States with strengths in Art History, History, and Literature.
We hold the former library of the United States Information Service, an information agency of the Foreign Service of the U.S. Government which used to be situated in Grosvenor Square, London. At the time of its closure in 1966 the library’s collection more than 25,000 volumes represented the largest and most complete body of American literature in England.
New acquisitions on U.S. History and the history of the Americas can be found in the Periodicals Room on the fourth floor under the classmarks E and F.
Special collections and archives
We hold selected archives related to U.S. History(Opens in new window) on topics such as politics, trade and slavery as well as the Manton Marble Collection(Opens in new window) of printed materials on American politics, foreign relations and economics.
E-resources
Selected e-resources for U.S. History include:
- African American Biographical Database(Opens in new window)
- America in World War Two(Opens in new window)
- America: History & Life(Opens in new window)
- American Consumer Culture(Opens in new window)
- American History(Opens in new window)
- American Indian Histories and Cultures(Opens in new window)
- American West(Opens in new window)
- Americana(Opens in new window)
- Colonial America(Opens in new window)
- Early American Imprints First Series, 1639-1800(Opens in new window) and Second Series, 1801-1819(Opens in new window)
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment(Opens in new window)
- Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920(Opens in new window)
- Frontier Life(Opens in new window)
- Gilded Age(Opens in new window)
- Jewish Life in America(Opens in new window)
- Market Research and American Business(Opens in new window)
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories(Opens in new window)
- North American Indian Thought and Culture(Opens in new window)
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries(Opens in new window)
- Race Relations in America(Opens in new window)
- Trade Catalogues and the American Home(Opens in new window)
- Women and Social Movements in the U.S.(Opens in new window)