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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete
Index and full-text source for over 3,600 scholarly journals and magazines in all subjects.
African-American Poetry 1760-1900
African-American Poetry 1760-1900 Full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900.
American Periodical Series
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types from 1740-1900.  American Periodical Series
American Poetry
40,356 poems from 1,288 works by 209 influental American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. American Poetry
Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)

Collection of Asian American plays with biographical, production and theatrical information from 1891 to present.

Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)

Full text of plays by more than 100 playwrights from the mid-1800s to the present.

Black Short Fiction
Black Short Fiction
A full-text collection of over 4,000 short stories by 272 authors from Africa and the African Diaspora. 
Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans from 1700 to present.
Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers
Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
This primary source database contains the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women from 1500-1900's. British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
Dissertations Abstracts Online with Digital Dissertations Dissertations Abstracts Online with Digital Dissertations
Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876

Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of U.S. historic newspapers, fully text-searchable. The collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820."

ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Full-text English-language books, broadsides and other publications from 1701-1800.
English Verse Drama
English Verse Drama contains more than 2,200 works from the Shrewsbury Fragments through the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, to the end of the nineteenth century. English Verse Drama
Latin American Women Writers
A collection of poetry, prose, essays, and drama written by women writers from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Latin American Women Writers
Latino Literature
Latino Literature A collection of plays, prose, and poetry written Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other Latino writers. 
Medieval Sources Online
Thirteen online, full text books provide hundreds of primary sources in medieval study. Medieval Sources Online
MLA International Bibliography

Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.

MLA International Bibliography
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
A collection of primary sources providing personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Collection of letters and diaries from 1675-1996 reflecting on the immediate experiences of 1,017 women.
Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886
Eighty-two documents carrying fragmentary texts written by Dickinson between 1870 and 1886, as well as fifty-four poems, letters, and other writings with direct links to the fragments. Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886
RefWorks

Tired of formatting bibliographies?
Import references into RefWorks, which will format them in APA, MLA, or other chosen styles.

Sabin Americana:  1500 to 1926
Sabin Americana: 1500 to 1926

Full-text digital edition of books published in "The Americas" from 1500 to 1926, includes items from the entire Western Hemisphere, Arctic, Antarctic, and the West Indies.

The Times Digital Archive
Search every word of every page of The London Times 1785-1985, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a complete page. All articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Women Writers Online
Women Writers Online Full text collection of essays, fiction, and poetry written by women from 1400-1850.
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