Research and Course Guides: Cultural, Ethnic & Religious Factors Impacting Health: US and SC Culture

Life in America

America History and Life This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history (prehistory to the present), 1964-present
Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
African American and African history and culture including biographies, topical entries, primary source documents with commentary, images, maps, charts, tables, and more.
American Memory This link opens in a new window
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

U.S. History in Context
American events, issues and current information combining articles with primary source material
Smithsonian Institution
Search and browse the 568,100 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Digitized copies of historical American newspaper pages. Includes papers from Anderson, Pickens, Columbia, Orangeburg, and Charleston, SC)
Gallup Analytics This link opens in a new window
80 Years of Gallup's Trended Data for the U.S. and 160+ countries
Limit: 1 user at a time

South Carolina Digital Library
The South Carolina Digital Library (SCDL) is a collaborative effort that includes South Carolina’s schools, libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. Contains manuscripts, images, audio, maps and other material.

Documenting the American South This link opens in a new window
From the University of North Carolina, primary resources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.
Sanborn Maps, 1876-1970 This link opens in a new window
Large-scale plans of cities and towns in South Carolina, 1867-1970
Palmetto Yesteryears This link opens in a new window
Historical photographs from Clemson University and South Carolina history
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
Search for SC news from 1980 to today. Click on the All News link to bring up a search screen that will allow you to limit your article to just the state of SC. (Don't forget to also limit your search to Newspapers.)

For Historic SC Newspapers see last link under Life in America to the left!