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19th Century Masterfile

Nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century studies; includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906). Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, patents and US/UK Government Documents.

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19th Century US Newspapers

Cover-to-cover digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

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ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)

East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union: economics, history, politics, religion, social and cultural issues. Journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications published in the United States and Canada.

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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

"provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles."

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Aluka-African cultural heritage sites and landscapes

"includes photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, aerial and satellite photography, images of rock art, excavation reports, manuscripts, traveller's accounts, historical and antiquarian maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research."

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Aluka-Struggles for freedom in South Africa

"more than 180 000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches."

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America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922), inc. Early American Newspapers

Over 1000 newspapers published between 1690-1922 in the U.S. Includes Series I (1690-1876), Series II (1758-1900), Series III (1829-1922), Series IV (1756-1922) and Series V (1777-1922).

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America: History & Life (funded by VIVA)

History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Journal articles, books, and media reviews

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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I

Fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Includes clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.

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American National Biography: ANB

Biographical articles for over 17,000 subjects. Updated quarterly.

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American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900

Digitized images of over 1,100 American magazines and journals originating between 1740-1900. Included are periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II.

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L'Annee Philologique

Ancient classical world; literature, history, linguistics, philosophy, political life, economics, religion, science, archaeology, society, and other related topics. 1,500 periodicals, some collections, and conference papers.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index

“fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.” Unique feature: ability to search citations to a person's work in footnotes and bibliographies (included in Web of Science).

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Arts & Humanities Search (funded by VIVA)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Articles from over 8,000 scholarly journals.

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Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)

full page and article images with searchable full text

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Bibliography of Native North Americans

Native peoples of North America, including northern Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica. Citations from 8 volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. Monographs, journals, conference papers, government publications, organizational reports and studies, and other miscellaneous items.

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

"Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world."

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Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739 (CD-ROM at Swem)

More than 44,000 transcripts and extended abstracts from 1574 to 1739 between the British colonial offices and local government. Orders and grants from central government to local administration; the slave trade; piracy; agriculture; boundary disputes; administration; reports of conferences with Native Americans; plantations; immigration; land grants; legislation; industries such as ship building and fisheries; relations with French, Spanish Dutch, including intercepted letters; trade; privateering; war; and reports of court cases.

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Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective

Articles, editorials, advertisements, and biographies taken from New York Herald, Charleston Mercury, and Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.

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Complete Civil War (DVD-ROM at Swem)

The medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion (6 books of official government medical records, containing over 1,500 illustrations) -- The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies (127 books of official government records of Army operations) -- Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (30 books of official government records of Navy operations) -- Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate armies (color maps covering various battles and theaters of operation, includes searchable index) -- The Southern Historical Society papers (52 books containing the collected publications of the Southern Historical Society, focuses on the Confederacy and includes a roster of soldiers who surrendered at Appomattox) -- Campaigns of the Civil War (19 books covering major campaigns of the Civil War) -- Confederate generals speak (7 biographical and autobiographical books on Robert E. Lee, Jubal Early, J.E.B. Stuart, John B. Gordon, James Longstreet, G. Moxley Sorrel, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson).

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CQ Almanac

Renowned and authoritative coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945-2006; accessible, in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy for each year, organized by policy area; Comprehensive roll call votes for all major legislation

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Credo Reference

Credo is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. And Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, videos and much more. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology, via maps, math, management, martial arts, media studies, medicine, mountains, moons, music, multimedia, mythology.

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Dictionary of National Biography

More than 50,000 biographies of British men and women, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Evans Digital Edition)

Books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other imprints from 17th and 18th century America.

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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819

American books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other imprints from 1801-1819. Continuation of Early American Imprints, Series I: 1639-1800 -- Evans Digital Edition. To be completed July, 2007.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Books and other items in the English language printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and elsewhere between 1473-1700.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm collection. English and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Nearly 150,000 titles will be made available online over the course of the next two years.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam

Corresponds to the printed Encyclopaedia of Islam (English) Volumes I-XI and Supplement (Volume XII

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English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

Lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly in Britain and North America. Most titles are in English.

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Fuente Academia (funded by VIVA)

Scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Subject areas include agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, and sociology.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies

Bibliography on Latin America. Books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology.

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HarpWeek (funded by VIVA)

Harper's Weekly, including text, illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads.

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Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography (CD-ROM at Swem)

Contains references to almost 50,000 articles, over 17,000 books, 4,000 book sections, 7,000 theses, and 4,000 reviews

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Historical Abstracts (funded by VIVA)

World history since 1450. Periodical articles, books, reviews, collections, and dissertations.

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Historical Statistics of the United States

Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present.

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History Cooperative

History journals, papers, and some conference proceedings.

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International Medieval Bibliography

Middle Ages; covers Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500. 4,500 periodicals and 5,000 conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues.

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JSTOR

Almost 800 multidisciplinary and subject-specific full-text, scholarly journals. Please note: JSTOR does not include the most recent 3 to 5 years of the journals it indexes. Please use other databases to retrieve recent articles, especially for current events topics.

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Los Angeles Times (LA Times), 1881-1986

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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Making of the Modern World

The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

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New England Ancestors.org

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New York Times, 1851-2006

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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NewsBank/Readex

Includes access to several historical collections: AccessUN (1991-present), American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, Early American Imprints Series I: Evans 1639-1800, Early American Imprints Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819, Early American Newspapers Series I-V (1690-1922), House and Senate Journals, Series I (1789-1817), and Senate Executive Journals, Series I (1789-1866). See individual databases for further details

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Nineteenth Century Masterfile

Nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century studies; includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906). Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, patents and US/UK Government Documents.

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Nineteenth Century US Newspapers

Cover-to-cover digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

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Oxford Islamic Studies Online

Reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.

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Past Portal

Digitized versions of rare books and manuscripts from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation collections, a selection of reports on the buildings and people of 18th-century Williamsburg, and the complete run of the Virginia Gazette to 1780.

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Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800

Pennsylvania Gazette; articles, editorials, letters, news items, and advertisements.

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Periodicals Index Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index-PCI)

Humanities and social sciences. Scholarly journals.

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Rotunda Collections

Digital editions of works from the American Founding Era: The Adams Papers, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Papers of George Washington and the Dolley Madison Digital Edition. Also contains the 19th-Century Literature and Culture Collection including William Wells Brown, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Shore.