New York Public Library cardholders can access an extensive amount of United States History resources for remote learning. To use these resources, just have your library card handy and you can delve right into the wealth of information that is available. (Don't have a card? New York State residents can apply for one from home.)

Accessing Primary Sources Remotely

• U.S. History in Context: Coverage of the most-studied U.S. history topics including from the arrival of Vikings in North America, American Revolution, Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror through a web-like experience that supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills. Noted for access to primary source documents.

• America's Historical Imprints: Search full-text early American books, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and rare printed materials.

• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: A historical archive of several million cross-searchable pages of books, serials, Supreme Court records and briefs, and key manuscript collections from the United States, Great Britain, and France concerning debates of slavery and abolition, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Institution of Slavery, and the Age of Emancipation.

• Daily Life Through History: An archive of everyday life in all areas of the world from ancient times to the present day as shown in reference articles, illustrations, posters, cultural and government documents, speeches, letters, and personal narratives.

• Gale Primary Sources: A full-text database that cross-searches Gale's primary source collections and includes primary sources from a variety of eras in history. 

Excellent Reference Sites

• Credo Reference: Provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias.

• American Government: Covers the organization and key features of the American political system.  Material is divided into general overviews (Topics) and explorations of issues (Perspectives), supported with articles, images, speeches, and other documentation.

• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views and help students develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.

• Oxford Reference Online: A consolidation of many of Oxford’s excellent reference materials including their wide selection of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias. 

Historical Newspapers

• America’s Historical Newspapers: Excellent access to early American newspapers, including some colonial era titles. 

• Chronicling America: Historic American newspapers from the Library of Congress. 

• Newspapers.com: An excellent collection of regional and state titles in addition to small local newspapers.

• New York State Historical Newspapers: Fully searchable, online access to local and regional New York State newspapers.

NYPL’s Full List of U.S. History Databases—click the link for the complete list, and look for the house icon and the planet icon for remote access options.