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Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications...  [more info]
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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale)
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney.  [more info]
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Access World News (NewsBank)
Includes full text of Harrisonburg's Daily News-Record (4/28/1993 to present) and Staunton's Daily News Leader (6/22/1999 to present).  [more info]
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America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state.  [more info]
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1: 1760-1900 (Readex)
Fully searchable facsimile editions of nearly 30,000 broadsides and ephemera printed in colonial...  [more info]
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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs...  [more info]
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American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture...  [more info]
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American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first...  [more info]
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American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches...  [more info]
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American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government...
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AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image database containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images dating from the 1500s. Also includes charts, graphs, tables, and maps.  [more info]
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ArchiveGrid (OCLC / Firstsearch)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories...  [more info]
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ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing.  [more info]
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Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.  [more info]
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters...  [more info]
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome.  Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari.  C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research.  [more info]
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CQ Press Electronic Library (CQ Press)
Searches CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Historic Documents, all in one...  [more info]
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CQ Press Historic Documents Online Library (CQ Press)
A full-text database of primary source documents. Each volume contains approximately one hundred documents highlighting the year's most important events and issues...  [more info]
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Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck-Healey)
This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 ...  [more info]
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex)
A collection of full-text digital books. Digital version of the Early American Imprints...  [more info]
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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker: 1801-1819 (Readex)
A collection of 36,000 fully searchable digital books...  [more info]
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native...  [more info]
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Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics....  [more info]
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ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century...  [more info]
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Empire Online (1492-1962) (Adam Matthew Digital)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material...  [more info]
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HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ...  [more info]
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In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials.  [more info]
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Nation Digital Archive (EBSCO)
According to a review in Magazines for Libraries, "The Nation is one of the most openly left-wing publications in existence," proud of its independence from any company or political party.  [more info]
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New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago...  [more info]
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of primary sources written by North American immigrants from 1800 to 1950 ...  [more info]
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OAIster (OCLC / Firstsearch)
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide.  [more info]
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Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press)
This full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews...  [more info]
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Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The Papers of George Washington:  Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement from 1748-1799.  [more info]
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Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology
Searchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century.  [more info]
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (EBSCO)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982.  [more info]
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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)
Full text of every book about the Americas published anywhere between 1500 and 1926...  [more info]
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Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
Interface change coming soon! Click here for more information. The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio...  [more info]
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Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a...  [more info]
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US Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition (Readex)
An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies...
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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866...  [more info]
 
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