History Vault

History Vault provides access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. 

History Vault Modules and Subject Areas

History Vault is arranged into a series of Modules, organized around 9 main Subject Areas. New modules are launched every year. For more information about History Vault's modules and subject areas, navigate to the Content Page, where you will find them listed by issue date, by subject group and more.

History Vault resides on the ProQuest Platform. For additional information about basic and advanced functionality or administrative capabilities, visit the ProQuest Platform LibGuide.

History Vault now on the ProQuest Platform, from June 26th, 2024.

Read more on this in the Support Center article

See the materials of the presentation at launch in the box below.

4 modules launching in 2024:

Already Launched in H1:

• Module 68 - Workers, Labor, and Race: Records of the Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941-1946
• Module 69 - Stephen S. Wise Papers: Rabbi, Scholar, Activist (1874-1949)

Launched in Septembe (only in the ProQuest platform):

• Module 70 - Planning for the Post-World War II World, State Department Records of Harley A. Notter, 1939-1945

Forthcoming in November (only in the ProQuest platform:

• Module 71 - Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, Francis J. Haas Papers, 1904-1953

Jump to each Subject Area: 

• American Indians and the American West
• American Politics and Society
• Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle
• International Relations, Military Conflicts
• Latinx History
• Revolutionary War and Early America
• Southern Life & Slavery
• Women's Studies
• Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals

Short 30' webinar presenting History Vault in the ProQuest platfom on the day of its launch - June 26th, 2024

See the 2 brand new essays just added!