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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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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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19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette.  [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 Founding Era Collection: Rotunda (University of Virginia)
Cross-search primary and secondary papers of major figures of the early republic, including James Madison, Dolley Madison and George Washington.  [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 State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government...
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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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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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Dolley Madison Papers (University of Virginia)
Search history through Dolley Madison's correspondence letters dated from 1788 - 1837...  [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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Empire Online (1492-1962) (Adam Matthew Digital)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material...  [more info]
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Global Missions and Theology (Gale)
Contains documents from and about missionary activity in the United States during the 19th Century.  Includes reproductions of personal narratives, organizational records, and biographies of churches, church leaders, and missionaries.  Also contains material on missionary activities in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the Sandwich Islands.  [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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Making of America
Digital copies of primary sources published in the US from pre Civil War to the 1920s. Click  'More Info' for website links...  [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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North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of letters and diaries reflecting on the immediate experiences of 1,017 women ...  [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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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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Papers of James Madison (University of Virginia)
The Papers of James Madison Digital Edition includes documents from Madison's times as Congressman, Secretary of State, and President of the United States.  Also includes papers from his retirement.  [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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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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Virginia Memory
The digital collection of the Library of Virginia containing photographs, maps, government documents, etc, from the beginnings of Virginia history to the present.  [more info]
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Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Provides electronic access to over 2,800 volumes of 19th century American fiction. Works may be viewed as either rekeyed text or page images.  [more info]
 
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