Major Indexes and Databases
18th Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes a variety of materials — from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements — and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century.
19th Century in Print: Periodicals
Presents 23 popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry.
Academic OneFile
Interdisciplinary article index covering all subjects in over 10,000 academic-related journals and magazines (the majority with full-text). Includes all the content of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage: 1980 - present. Also includes New York Times full-text content back to 1995. Go shortcut = go/onefile
America: History and Life
Major index to over 2,000 journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of United States and Canada from pre-history to the present. Indexes publications published from 1964 to current.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Full-text newspapers articles from: Freedom's Journal; Colored American; The North Star; The National Era; Frederick Douglass Paper; Provincial Freeman; and The Christian Recorder.
American National Biography
Includes biographical information on over 17,000 men and women who were important in American history. (Also available in print Main Library Reference CT213 .A68 1999)
American Periodical Series Online (APS) (new database)
Provides digitized images of "over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals." Includes titles such as Ladies Home Journal, Vanity Fair, The Dial, Puck, McClure's, New England Magazine and more.
Dissertation Abstracts
For an extensive project or thesis, use this catalog of dissertations and masters' theses published from 1851 to current.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Part of Archive of Americana. This digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period listed in the bibliography by Charles Evans. Publications include: advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Part of Archive of Americana. Early 19th Century books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. It is an essential complement to Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) is a digital library containing about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Digital images of each page can be searched or downloaded in .PDF format. Major subjects include: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Expanded Academic ASAP (included in Academic OneFile)
Use Academic OneFile instead.
American Broadsides and Ephemera
Part of Archive of Americana. Contains fully searchable facsimile images of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.
Godey's Lady's Book 1830-1880
Searchable full-text of the famous 19th century womens' magazine, which today is considered among the most important resources of 19th century American life and culture.
Historical Abstracts
Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.
JSTOR
Full-text archive of core academic journals, including 39 in the field of history.
London Times Digital Archive (new subscription)
Access the digital edition of the London Times from 1785 to 1985. Search by keyword, by words in text, or browse by date and retrieve the full-text as it appeared in the paper. We are limited to one user at a time so please logout when finished!
Project Muse
Full-text of over 100 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage begins in 1993 or later, depending on the journal.
The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Full-text coverage from Nov. 1860 - April 1865 of The Charleston Mercury; The New York Herald; and the Richmond Enquirer. Major events are described in detail in both Union and Confederate papers.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Part of Archive of Americana. This digital collection contains legislative and executive documents of the first fourteen U.S. Congresses and more. It is an essential complement to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, which begins with the 15th U.S. Congress.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
Part of Archive of Ameriana. Contains reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th to 96th Congresses, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. Also includes key Executive Branch documents.
Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000. Scholar's Edition
Provides 74 document projects. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Includes more than 2,200 documents, approx. 800 images, & almost 800 links to other websites. Also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations; a chronology of U.S. women's history; and teaching tools.
