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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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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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Articles (from magazines)

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)

NCCO contains monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more from the Nineteenth Century. [more info]

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Biography

American National Biography (Oxford University Press)

A biographical resource for notable people in American history with a database offering portraits... [more info]

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Books / Book Chapters

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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Black Short Fiction (Alexander Street Press)

A full-text collection of short stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. [more info]

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Drama

American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)

Full text database of over 1,000 film scripts digitized and thoroughly indexed... [more info]

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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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Letters & Diaries

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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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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News Articles

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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Archive of Americana (Readex)

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Poetry

African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)

Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900... [more info]

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American Poetry (Chadwyck-Healey)

Includes 40,356 poems by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry... [more info]

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Primary Sources

19th Century US Newspapers (Gale)

Collection of over 500 US newspapers from the 19th Century. Includes approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from both rural and urban titles. Illustrated papers also included. [more info]

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African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)

Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900... [more info]

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Reference Information

Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)

Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]

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Videos

Films on Demand

A streaming video resource containing thousands of educational videos in 8 subject areas. Includes access to archival films and newsreels. [more info]

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Websites

English Short Title Catalogue

Indexes over 460,000 that were published between 1473 and 1800 primarily in Britain and North America. [more info]

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]