ProQuest One History

ProQuest One History contains digitized historical primary source collections, featuring early modern books, archival and manuscript collections, historical periodicals, letters and diaries, and video and multimedia content. The collections' primary focus is the United States and the United Kingdom, but European and some global materials are also included. Many of these resources are hosted on the ProQuest platform, but some resources are hosted on the Alexander Street platform and must be accessed using the "Also Available to You" menu box on the homepage. 

Sub-collections on the ProQuest platform include:

• Early Modern Collection: Includes the Early English Books Online collection and Early European Books Collections from 4 national libraries and London's Wellcome Library.
• Historical Periodicals Collection: Historical academic journals, magazines, and trade publications dating from 1740-1940, including the American Periodicals collection; C19: The Nineteenth Century Index, Periodicals Archive Online, and Periodicals Index Online
• History Vault: Digitized manuscript and archival collections from a wide variety of archival institutions. Rutgers has access to all History Vault sub-collections available from ProQuest. Sub-collections are in the major areas of:
  • American Politics and Society 
  • Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle 
  • International Relations and Military Conflicts 
  • Latinx History 
  • Revolutionary War and Early America 
  • Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War 
  • Women's Studies 
  • Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals
• U.K. History Collection: A variety of British historical materials, including the British Periodicals collection, the Cecil Papers from the era of Queen Elizabeth I, Colonial State Papers, Queen Victoria's journals, trench magazines from WWI,  and 19th-century ephemera. 

These documents are all cross-searchable using the ProQuest One History platform search. They can also be cross-searched as part of ProQuest Digital Collections.

The "Also Available to You" box on the homepage links to additional video and primary source collections available on the Alexander Street primary source platform. These primary sources are available to Rutgers as part of ProQuest One History but are not included in the platform-wide search because they are on a separate platform. Please select these "Also Available to You" options to see the full range of primary sources available to you on the Alexander Street platform. On Alexander Street, the following subcollections are grouped in the U.S. History Collection:

• American History in Video
• Early Encounters in North America
• North American Indian Thought and Culture
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
• The Gilded Age