GSU Library Research Guides: Remote Archival Research: GSU Library Resources

Subscription Databases

Many database providers digitize material on specific topics from various archives and sell subscription access. Many of these database will require you to use a valid GSU login or VPN. GSU Library has subscriptions to the following databases:

Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window
Accessible Archives' databases contain material found in leading historic periodicals and books from the 18th and 19th centuries. Some information previously only available in microformat or print. GSU has access to: African American Newspapers, Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, Godey's Lady's Book, and the Pennsylvania Gazette.
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
An encyclopedia of history, this database is a collection of videos providing footage of seminal historic events and hundreds of profiles of great American leaders and personalities.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Provides topically focused digital collections from archives and institutional repositories around the world. GSU's records of the National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU) and selected portions of the United Garment Workers of America Union (UGWAU) digitized by Gale/Cengage Learning.
C-SPAN Video Library This link opens in a new window
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The streaming website of C-SPAN, the American legislative broadcaster, offers a complete, freely accessible archive going back to 1987.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) This link opens in a new window
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. A few collections are accessible digitally, most materials can be borrowed via interlibrary loan. Note: Request CRL materials through University Library using Illiad; include a statement in the note field that the item is from CRL
Civil Rights Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Portal for searching and accessing historical materials from over 200 libraries, archives, and museums documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The CRDL features a collection of more than 30 hours of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives.
Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR) This link opens in a new window
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Presents research, scholarly, and archival content from institutional repositories from several Georgia colleges and universities.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950 - 1975 This link opens in a new window
Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest: Popular Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975, offering thousands of color images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history
Vanishing Georgia This link opens in a new window
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Contains nearly 18,000 photographs from the Georgia Archives documenting over 100 years of the state's history, covering topics surrounding family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000 This link opens in a new window
A resource for US and US women's history, specifically organized around the history of women in social movements in the US from 1600 - 2000.

Subscription Historical Newspaper Databases

GSU Library has subscriptions to the following historical newspaper databases, many of which you will need to login with your GSU login or VPN.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
This database provides access to over one million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
African American Newspapers, Parts I - VIII (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new window
A collection of African American newspapers containing a wealth of first-hand reports about cultural life and history during the 1800s.
African Newspapers, 1800 - 1922 (World Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
This groundbreaking online collection provides more than 60 searchable African newspapers published in the19th and early 20th centuries.
Atlanta Constitution, 1868 - 1984 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
AS THE ONLY major daily newspaper in the Atlanta area, The AC provides a glimpse into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of the southeastern United States. Content ranging from Reconstruction through the late 20th century.
Atlanta Daily World, 1931 - 2003 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Founded in 1928 by W. A. Scott, the Atlanta Daily World became the first successful African American daily newspaper in the United States.
Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive This link opens in a new window
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Coverage spans from 1847-1922 for the following titles: Atlanta Daily Examiner, Atlanta Daily Herald, Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta Intelligencer, Atlantian, Daily/Georgia Weekly Opinion, Gate-City Guardian, Georgia Literary and Temperance Crusader, New Era, Southern Confederacy, Southern Miscellany and Upper Georgia Whig, Southern World, Sunny South, and the Weekly Constitution.
Civil War, Part I: A Newspaper Perspective This link opens in a new window
Contains articles published from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer. Includes eye-witness accounts, official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, bibliographies, and descriptions of travel, arts and leisure, sports, and social events. Coverage: November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
Digital Library of Georgia Historic Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Part of GALILEO and partnered with universities and other institutions in Georgia providing digitized historical newspapers from around the state.
Georgia Historic Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Includes newspaper titles from around the state. The collection provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date, title, region, city, and newspaper.
Pennsylvania Gazette, Folios I - IV This link opens in a new window
The Gazette provides a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution, and the New Republic by offering social, political, and cultural perspectives, including articles, editorials, letters, news items, and advertisements highlighting publications from 1728 to 1800.
West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive This link opens in a new window
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This database provides online access to six newspaper titles published in five west Georgia cities from 1843 to 1942. Consisting of over 37,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.