Features papers from more than 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.

Can be searched individually or as multiple titles. Interface is capable of searching the full-text, or limiting to headline, date, author, topic or section of the article record. The papers are updated daily, however the archive depth varies by newspaper.

Covers all key English-language historical journals, also includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Also includes thousands of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals. Also includes abstracts of dissertations published in these areas.

Biography in Context combines over 330,000 biographies on nearly 220,000 people from more than 625 volumes of nearly 80 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History and U.S. News & World Report.

Covers Sept. 18, 1851 to 3 years before the current year

The database covers the years 1890 through 1982. For access to current general periodicals indexing, see Academic Search Premier

Replaced Research Library from ProQuest in 2018. Upgraded from Academic Search Premier in 2019.