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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 Poetry (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes 40,356 poems by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry...  [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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ARTstor
Image database containing over 1 million images in subject areas such as art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, world history, literature and more.  [more info]
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Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of Asian American plays with biographical, production and theatrical information.  [more info]
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Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Full text of plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights...  [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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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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CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) (OCLC / Firstsearch)
This digital image database offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources...  [more info]
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Chicago Manual of Style
Get help citing sources, determining proper grammar and usage, creating style sheets, and more.  [more info]
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Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Accessible Archives)
Full-text of major articles related to the Civil War from the New York Herald, Charleston Mercury, and Richmond Enquirer...  [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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David Rumsey Map Collection (Cartography Associates)
The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials.  Images available for certain uses (such as attribution) under the Creative Commons license.  [more info]
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus (University of Toronto)
A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts...  [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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English Poetry Full-Text Database (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text of 1,350 English and British poems from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of 19th century ...  [more info]
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English Verse Drama (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text of more than 1,500 works by 450 named and 230 anonymous authors ...  [more info]
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Europa World (Taylor and Francis)
Europa World provides the latest information covering political elections, country profiles, and industry statistics....  [more info]
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Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 (Gale)
Contains FBI files on African Americans and others considered "politically suspect" from 1920 to 1984.  People of interest to the FBI were members of protest groups, Socialists, Communists, militant labor unionists, and many more.  [more info]
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FIAF - International Index to Film Periodicals (Chadwyck-Healey)
FIAF is a bibliographical index offering in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals.  [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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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]
Internet
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Latin American Women Writers (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of poetry, prose, essays, and drama written by women writers from Mexico, Central America, and South America.  [more info]
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Latino Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of plays, prose, and poetry written Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other Latino writers.  [more info]
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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Includes information on general reference, business, health, general science, and multicultural issues.  Contains full text magazine articles, periodicals, books, primary source documents, images, maps, and more.  [more info]
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Medieval Sourcesonline (Manchester University Press)
A collection of primary source material containing over three thousand pages of...  [more info]
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Nation Digital Archive (EBSCO)
Index with full-text of the Nation magazine...  [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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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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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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Opposing Viewpoints In Context (Gale)
Contains secondary and primary sources discussing today's social issues...
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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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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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Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 (Accessible Archives)
Contains the full-text of the most successful Colonial American newspaper...  [more info]
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Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
Full text for journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.  [more info]
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Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886
An electronic archive of eighty-two documents carrying fragmentary texts written by Dickinson between...  [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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Repositories of Primary Sources
Provides links to over 5000 websites that contain manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources.  [more info]
Internet
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Taylor and Francis)
Based on the scholarly printed Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "REP Online" allows users to search through a regularly updated universe of over...  [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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Safari Business Library (ProQuest)
Safari Business Library addresses today's most important business issues and provides access to the latest IT information...  [more info]
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street Press)
Full text of poetry from Scottish women, 1789 to 1832, from every social, economic, political and religious...  [more info]
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Thomas A. Edison Papers
This digital collection contains over 100,000 primary documents produced by Thomas Edison. Includes correspondence, contracts, business records, diaries, laboratory records, patents, technical notes, and more.  [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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Vanderbilt Television News Archive
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Streaming video of news from NBC (1968 to date) and CNN (1995 to date) plus indexing of television network news from all the major networks, 1968 to date.  [more info]
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Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 15 years ago...  [more info]
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