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African American Biographical Database (Cancelled) (Chadwyck-Healey) (Cancelled)
This resource has been cancelled, effective 6/30/2009. Access to this resource will end 6/30/2009. Please begin using other resources. AABD is a collection that contains extended narratives of African Amerian activists, business people, former slaves, educators... [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... [more info]
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 images of architecture, painting, sculpture... [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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British Census 1851 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
Census of Devon, Norfolk, and Warwick counties in England, from March 31, 1851... [more info]
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British Census and National Index 1881 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
1881 Census of England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, and the Royal Navy... [more info]
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
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) (The Art Museum Image Consortium)
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.... [more info]
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Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Thomas Publishing Co.)
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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CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences (CSA)
Search through thousands of illustrations from the natural science areas such as: Biology, Earth Science, Agriculture... [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... [more info]
Internet
Dictionary of Old English A-F (Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language... [more info]
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus (University of Michigan)
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) (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 American Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex)
Use: America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922... [more info]
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (The University of Chicago)
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]
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)
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 Yearbook (Taylor and Francis)
Europa World provides the latest information covering political elections, country profiles, and industry statistics.... [more info]
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Evans Digital Edition 1639-1800 (Readex)
Use: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex)... [more info]
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...
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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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Historical New York Times (ProQuest)
See: New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)... [more info]
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Historical Washington Post (ProQuest)
See: Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest)... [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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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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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]
Internet
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Information included in this database ranges from general reference, business, health... [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 (Nation Publishing Company)
Index with full-text of the Nation... [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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Niles' Register Cumulative Index (1811-1849)
Index to the Niles Register, a 19th century Baltimore newspaper, for 1811-1849... [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 Resource Center (Gale)
Contains secondary and primary sources discussing today's social issues... [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]
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 (CSA)
Contains the full-text of the most successful Colonial American newspaper... [more info]
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Pennsylvania Genealogies, Pre-1600's to 1900's (Genealogical Publishing Company)
Images of all three volumes of Genealogies of Pennsylvania families from The Pennsylvania... [more info]
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Pennsylvania Vital Records, 1740-1830 (Family Tree Maker)
Images of virtually every article on births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths... [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 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info]
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Taylor and Francis)
Based on the scholary 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)
 New Interface 10.19.2009.  The new interface relies heavily on Flash, so if there are problems, the first possible solution is to make sure you have the latest version of Flash installed: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html 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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Shaw-Shoemaker Bibliography (Readex)
Use: Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819... [more info]
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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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge University Press)
Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866... [more info]
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Streaming video of news from CBS (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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Women Writers Online (Brown University)
This resource will cease as of 7/1/2010. Full text collection of essays, fiction, and poetry written by women from 1400-1850. This collection includes... [more info]
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