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Published sources

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Early American Imprints (Evans Digital). 1639-1800. Will contain the full text of American books published in the 17th and 18th centuries; draws on the titles listed in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's supplement to the bibliography. Topics include all subjects, from agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, to literature, music, and religion.	click here
Early American Imprints (Shaw-Shoemaker). 1801-1819. Will contain the the full text of American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the first decades of the 19th century; based on the tems listed in Shaw & Shoemaker's continuation of Evans' American Bibliography. Covers every aspect of American life during the first 19 years of the 19th century.	click here
Early English Books Online (EEBO). 1475 - 1700. Contains digitized copies of books published in England through the 17th century; draws on Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).	click here
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). 1701-1800. Includes every significant English- and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.	click here

Magazines and newspapers

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American Periodicals Series. 1740-1900. Full text of 18th and 19th century magazines and journals, including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and many popular and opinion magazines, some still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.	click here
Periodicals Archive Online. 1770+ Full text archive of hundreds of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues.	click here
America's Historical Newspapers. 1690-1922. Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, based largely on Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers and its successors.	click here
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers .1604-1804. Early English news media including the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets & books gathered by Rev. Charles Burney (1757-1817).	click here
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers. 1800-1913. Includes 48 national, regional & local newspapers, selected to best document 19th century Britain.	click here
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (parts I-VI & XII). Full-text articles from The Christian Recorder, The Colored American/Weekly Advocate, Frederick Douglass Paper, Freedom's Journal, The National Era, The North Star, Provincial Freeman, and Douglass Monthly.	click here
Boston Globe Historical. 1872-1926.	click here
Chicago Tribune Historical. 1849-1986.	click here
Chicago Defender Historical 1905-1975.	click here
Los Angeles Times Historical. 1881-1986.	click here
New York Times Index Historical. 1851-2006.	click here
Times (London) Digital Archive. 1785-1985 Complete digital edition of The Times (London), from its earliest issue through 1985. Including articles, advertisements, and illustrations/photos.	click here
Washington Post Historical. 1877-1993.	click here

Government documents

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House and Senate Journals, Series I. 1789-1817. Original, digitized version of the minutes of the meetings of each chamber Congress, up to 1817. The official record of business on petitions, memorials, motions, bills, resolutions, and the votes on them. Predates the U.S Congressional Serial Set [see below].	click here
Senate Executive Journals, Series I. 1789- 1866. A record of the U.S. Senate’s closed session deliberations, mostly on two principal topics: treaties and nominations. Particularly useful for historical, foreign policy, and biographical research.	click here
U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Digitized copies of reports, documents, and journals of the Senate and House, constituting a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Includes, for example, the reports of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.	click here

Miscellaneous

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American Broadsides and Ephemera. 1760-1900. Facsimiles of 18th and 19th century broadsides & ephemera, including accounts of the Civil War, government proclamations, town meeting reports, trade cards, theater & music programs, menus, and invitations documenting civic & private events.	click here
Gerritsen Collection. 1543-1945. An international collection of books, pamphlets & periodicals relating to feminism & the women’s rights movement. Allows users to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country or the impact of one country's movement on those of the others.	click here
Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature.1460-1850. The Making of the Modern World digital collection presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. Covers social history, early commerce, trade, colonization, industry and manufacturing, political systems, slavery and exploration, transatlantic studies, philosophy.	click here
Women and Social Movements. Indexing of and full text for published primary source documents (largely books and articles) covering women's social movements.	click here

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