OCLC catalog of books, articles, and other materials in libraries worldwide
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection from:
Collection of English news media from these two centuries.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society from:
Primary sources on the nineteenth century.
British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part II: Empire from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers from:
Primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: I and II Complete from:
English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th Century along with works from the Americas.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources II from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
Slavery Anti Slavery IV from:
Range of rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world.
The Making of the Modern World: Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850 from:
Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I from:
Helps researchers place science, along with medicine and technology, in the mainstream of historical study.
The Making of the Modern World: Part II: 1851-1914 from:
International coverage of social, economic and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization and the birth of the modern corporation.
Sabin Backfile from:
Collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Cumulative Update from:
Collection of books, serials, and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Slavery Anti Slavery from:
The abolitionist movement, the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonization.
Slavery Anti Slavery II from:
Resource for transnational and transatlantic research.
Slavery Anti Slavery III from:
Examines the institution of slavery through legal documents, plantation records, personal accounts, newspapers, and government documents.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Business IV Collection from:
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JSTOR Current Scholarship Journals from:
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JSTOR Hebrew Journals Collection from:
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JSTOR Ecology & Botany II Collection from:
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JSTOR Jewish Studies Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV Collection from:
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JSTOR Music Legacy Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences II Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences V Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences IX Collection from:
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JSTOR Business I Collection from:
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JSTOR Business II Collection from:
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JSTOR Business III Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Health & General Sciences Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Ireland Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Language & Literature Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Life Sciences Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Mathematics & Statistics Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Music Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences X Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Asia Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Iberoamérica Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Open Access Journals Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Business & Economics Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Religion & Theology Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Open Access Books from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
Project Muse from:
Digital Humanities and social sciences content
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection from:
Collection of English news media from these two centuries.
Early English Books Online MARC Records (Digital only) from:
Digital facsimiles of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America om 1473-1700
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1670 - 1800 Supplement from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Supplement has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
American History, 1493 - 1945 from:
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
Colonial America from:
Complete CO 5 files from The National Archives.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources II from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries from:
The database is a collection of women’s diaries and correspondence, spanning more than 300 years from Colonial times to 1950.
The Virginia Gazette from:
The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. Issues have the following subtitle: “Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick”. Published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, it contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries.
Early Encounters in North America from:
Contains letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters between various people.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
The Making of the Modern World: Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850 from:
Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century.
The Making of the Modern World: Part II: 1851-1914 from:
International coverage of social, economic and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization and the birth of the modern corporation.
Sabin Backfile from:
Collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Cumulative Update from:
Collection of books, serials, and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Virginia Company Archives from:
An essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
South Carolina Newspapers from:
This collection contains a wealth of information on colonial and early American History and genealogy, and provides an accurate glimpse of life in South Carolina and America, with additional coverage of events in Europe, during the early days of this country.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection from:
Collection of English news media from these two centuries.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1670 - 1800 Supplement from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Supplement has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
The Pennsylvania Gazette from:
The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States’ most prominent newspapers from 1728—before the time period of the American Revolution—until 1800. Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, it provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.
American History, 1493 - 1945 from:
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: I and II Complete from:
English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th Century along with works from the Americas.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources II from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries from:
The database is a collection of women’s diaries and correspondence, spanning more than 300 years from Colonial times to 1950.
The Virginia Gazette from:
The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. Issues have the following subtitle: “Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick”. Published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, it contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries.
Early Encounters in North America from:
Contains letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters between various people.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
The Making of the Modern World: Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850 from:
Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2012 from:
An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2012.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I from:
Helps researchers place science, along with medicine and technology, in the mainstream of historical study.
The Making of the Modern World: Part II: 1851-1914 from:
International coverage of social, economic and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization and the birth of the modern corporation.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 from:
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 offers full-color digital facsimile images of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900.
Sabin Backfile from:
Collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Cumulative Update from:
Collection of books, serials, and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Eighteenth Century Journals I from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals II from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals III from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1800-1819 Supplement from:
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Supplement provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century.
American History, 1493 - 1945 from:
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York.
The Freedmen's Record (The Freedmen’s Journal) from:
The Freedmen’s Record provides a unique look at the issues faced by freed slaves and the efforts to provide opportunities for Freedmen entering American society.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice from:
An essential resources, covering the variety, legacy and continued existence of slavery
The Civil War: 1855-1869 from:
Content covers such topics as trade with foreign countries; specific industries of the time; slavery; countless editorials discussing pre- and post-war attitudes from both sides; troop movements during the war; the Copperheads, Northerners sympathetic to the South; analysis of the trans-continental railroad; general news articles from around the world; and letters/correspondence.
Slavery Anti Slavery IV from:
Range of rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world.
The Western Woman Voter from:
Established to serve all women voters throughout the western U.S., Western Woman Voter began publication following the passage of suffrage in Washington State.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2012 from:
An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2012.
The Remonstrance from:
The Remonstrance was the official publication of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. First published annually and later quarterly in Boston from February, 1890 until October, 1913, it provided a forum for women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I from:
Helps researchers place science, along with medicine and technology, in the mainstream of historical study.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 from:
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 from:
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 offers full-color digital facsimile images of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900.
African American Newspapers from:
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
Frank Leslie's Weekly from:
Frank Leslie’s Weekly, later often known as Leslie’s Weekly, actually began life as Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Founded in 1855 and continued until 1922, it was an American illustrated literary and news publication, combining elements of war, politics, art, science, travel and exploration, literature and the fine arts in each weekly issue.
Godey’s Lady’s Book from:
In Philadelphia in 1830 Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey’s Lady’s Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women. The magazine was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like.
Reconstruction of Southern States from:
This assortment of pamphlets was collected by the Department of State Library and comprises speeches, debates, political statements, legislative bills, and more. These pamphlets range in date from 1865 to 1869 and 1877.
National Anti-Slavery Standard from:
National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan to spread their movement across the nation with printed materials. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this society and often addressed meetings at its New York City headquarters.
National Citizen and Ballot Box from:
The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal deeply involved in the roots of the American feminist movement. It was owned and edited by Matilda Joslyn Gage, American women’s rights advocate, who helped to lead and publicize the suffrage movement in the United States. Gage included her intentions for the paper in a prospectus: “Its especial object will be to secure national protection to women citizens in the exercise of their rights to vote…it will oppose Class Legislation of whatever form…Women of every class, condition, rank and name will find this paper their friend.”
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society from:
Primary sources on the nineteenth century.
British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
The Lily from:
The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). The newspaper began as a temperance journal. Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were considered unseemly, writing was the best way for women to work for reform.
British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
The Liberator from:
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves and gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part II: Empire from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers from:
Primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog from:
This database primarily is a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from The Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Subscribers will also find information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, and more within this collection.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources II from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record from:
This database documents the move to industrialization from a predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century. The collection contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
The Revolution, 1868-1872 from:
The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper, was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment. It was published between January 8, 1868 and February, 1872.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries from:
The database is a collection of women’s diaries and correspondence, spanning more than 300 years from Colonial times to 1950.
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From New-York Historical Society from:
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From New-York Historical Society offers rare items capturing a century of controversies, from slavery to suffrage.
The Making of the Modern World: Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850 from:
Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century.
The Making of the Modern World: Part II: 1851-1914 from:
International coverage of social, economic and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization and the birth of the modern corporation.
Sabin Backfile from:
Collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman from:
A biography of the life of the African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy from before the American Civil War until her death in 1913.
Sabin Cumulative Update from:
Collection of books, serials, and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Twelve Years a Slave from:
First-hand account of how fugitive slave laws that allowed African Americans who could not prove their free status to be taken into slavery affected one man’s life.
Slavery Anti Slavery from:
The abolitionist movement, the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonization.
Slavery Anti Slavery II from:
Resource for transnational and transatlantic research.
Slavery Anti Slavery III from:
Examines the institution of slavery through legal documents, plantation records, personal accounts, newspapers, and government documents.
American County Histories from:
American County Histories have long formed the cornerstone of local historical and genealogical research. They include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments and associations, cemeteries, family histories, health and vital statistics, roads and bridges, public officials and legislators, and many additional subject areas.
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman from:
A biography of the life of the African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy from before the American Civil War until her death in 1913.
The Liberator from:
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves and gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists.
Twelve Years a Slave from:
First-hand account of how fugitive slave laws that allowed African Americans who could not prove their free status to be taken into slavery affected one man’s life.
African American Newspapers from:
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
Slavery Anti Slavery from:
The abolitionist movement, the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonization.
Slavery Anti Slavery II from:
Resource for transnational and transatlantic research.
The Freedmen's Record (The Freedmen’s Journal) from:
The Freedmen’s Record provides a unique look at the issues faced by freed slaves and the efforts to provide opportunities for Freedmen entering American society.
Slavery Anti Slavery III from:
Examines the institution of slavery through legal documents, plantation records, personal accounts, newspapers, and government documents.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice from:
An essential resources, covering the variety, legacy and continued existence of slavery
National Anti-Slavery Standard from:
National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan to spread their movement across the nation with printed materials. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this society and often addressed meetings at its New York City headquarters.
Slavery Anti Slavery IV from:
Range of rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world.
The Freedmen's Record (The Freedmen’s Journal) from:
The Freedmen’s Record provides a unique look at the issues faced by freed slaves and the efforts to provide opportunities for Freedmen entering American society.
The Negro Business League Herald from:
This short-lived periodical provides insights into the activities and accomplishment of both the local NNBL office in Washington, D.C. and the organization in general.
The New Citizen (Votes for Women) from:
This database focuses on the role of newly-enfranchised women in Washington state. Articles discuss a variety of state and regional issues, including labor legislation, divorce laws, wage disparity between men and women, reproductive rights, and more.
The Western Woman Voter from:
Established to serve all women voters throughout the western U.S., Western Woman Voter began publication following the passage of suffrage in Washington State.
The Remonstrance from:
The Remonstrance was the official publication of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. First published annually and later quarterly in Boston from February, 1890 until October, 1913, it provided a forum for women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.
The 51st Pioneers from:
A collection of articles published by the 51st Pioneer Infantry in Germany in the early 1900s.
Coming Back from:
Covers the experiences of American soldiers during World War I.
The Bulletin from:
The Bulletin is a collection of articles published by the senior chaplain’s office for the officers and men of the American embarkation center in the early 1900s.
Plane News from:
A newspaper printed in France during World War I.
The Camp Devens News from:
Articles covering the experiences of American soldiers during the early 1900s at Camp Devens in Massachusetts. Also included are non-war related advertisements, poetry, short stories, memoirs, jokes, and cartoons.
The Camp Bragg News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Bragg, North Carolina, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The MacArthur Carry-On from:
A weekly paper published in the early 1900s for Camp MacArthur in Texas. It covers experiences of American soldiers.
The Camp Dix News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Dix, New Jersey, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
Reconstruction of Southern States from:
This assortment of pamphlets was collected by the Department of State Library and comprises speeches, debates, political statements, legislative bills, and more. These pamphlets range in date from 1865 to 1869 and 1877.
The Camp Knox News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Knox, Kentucky, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The Funstonian (Convalescent Center News) from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Funston, Kansas, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The Bayonet from:
Weekly camp newspaper focusing on Fort Benning, Georgia.
Camp Meade Herald from:
A World War I military camp newspaper from Maryland.
Camp Dix Pictorial Review from:
A newspaper produced for the soldiers, parents, and friends stationed at Camp Dix during World War I.
The Camp Pike Carry On from:
U.S. military camp newspaper printed at Camp Pike, Arkansas, during World War I.
The Camp Crane News (Ambulance Service News) from:
A U.S. military newspaper published in Allentown, Pennsylvania by the U.S. Army Ambulance Service Association.
The Fort Bayard News from:
A U.S. military hospital newspaper published in New Mexico.
Camp Dix Times (Trench and Camp-Trenton Evening Times) from:
A weekly publication published under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. during World War I.
The Marine from:
U.S. Marines newspaper.
The Cure from:
World War I military newspaper.
Over The Top from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
The Fly Paper (The Amaroc News) from:
A weekly newspaper for American Expeditionary Forces serving on active duty in France during World War I.
The Right-About (The Home-Again) from:
American military newspaper published by soldiers for soldier patients at the Greenhut, Grand Central, and Ellis Island Debarkation Hospitals and General Hospital at Fox Hills.
Going Over from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
Here and There With the 31st from:
A newspaper published at the front during the Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920.
Home Ties (Over the Top) from:
Army newspaper printed during World War I.
Issues and Events (News Examiner and Commentator; Vital Issue; The American Liberal) from:
A pro-German newspaper published in New York City during World War I.
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman from:
A biography of the life of the African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy from before the American Civil War until her death in 1913.
Twelve Years a Slave from:
First-hand account of how fugitive slave laws that allowed African Americans who could not prove their free status to be taken into slavery affected one man’s life.
The Listening-Post from:
Journal of the 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion printed during World War I.
History of Woman Suffrage from:
A history of the women’s suffrage movement, primarily in the United States, from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
The Merritt Dispatch from:
A weekly journal published at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, during World War I containing jokes, poems, editorials, advertisements, etc.
Afloat and Ashore from:
Military camp newspaper published in Charleston, South Carolina, during World War I.
American County Histories from:
American County Histories have long formed the cornerstone of local historical and genealogical research. They include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments and associations, cemeteries, family histories, health and vital statistics, roads and bridges, public officials and legislators, and many additional subject areas.
About Face from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
The Base Bull from:
A World War I U.S. military newspaper published in France.
Camp Custer Bulletin from:
A troop-produced military newspaper featuring articles addressing the concerns of trainees and their families as well as Army memos, jokes, poetry, and cartoons about camp life in World War I.
Camp Jackson Click from:
A World War I military camp newspaper from South Carolina.
The Camp Sherman News (The Eighty-third Division News) from:
A World War I military camp newspaper offering a closer look at the camp's activities and the interests of those in training at the camp.
Gas Attack of The New York Division (Wadsworth Gas Attack; The Rio Grande Rattler) from:
A World War I military camp newspaper published by the 27th Infantry Division while it was training at Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina.
The Civil War: 1855-1869 from:
Content covers such topics as trade with foreign countries; specific industries of the time; slavery; countless editorials discussing pre- and post-war attitudes from both sides; troop movements during the war; the Copperheads, Northerners sympathetic to the South; analysis of the trans-continental railroad; general news articles from around the world; and letters/correspondence.
African American Newspapers from:
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
Frank Leslie's Weekly from:
Frank Leslie’s Weekly, later often known as Leslie’s Weekly, actually began life as Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Founded in 1855 and continued until 1922, it was an American illustrated literary and news publication, combining elements of war, politics, art, science, travel and exploration, literature and the fine arts in each weekly issue.
Godey’s Lady’s Book from:
In Philadelphia in 1830 Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey’s Lady’s Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women. The magazine was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like.
National Anti-Slavery Standard from:
National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan to spread their movement across the nation with printed materials. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this society and often addressed meetings at its New York City headquarters.
National Citizen and Ballot Box from:
The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal deeply involved in the roots of the American feminist movement. It was owned and edited by Matilda Joslyn Gage, American women’s rights advocate, who helped to lead and publicize the suffrage movement in the United States. Gage included her intentions for the paper in a prospectus: “Its especial object will be to secure national protection to women citizens in the exercise of their rights to vote…it will oppose Class Legislation of whatever form…Women of every class, condition, rank and name will find this paper their friend.”
South Carolina Newspapers from:
This collection contains a wealth of information on colonial and early American History and genealogy, and provides an accurate glimpse of life in South Carolina and America, with additional coverage of events in Europe, during the early days of this country.
The Lily from:
The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). The newspaper began as a temperance journal. Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were considered unseemly, writing was the best way for women to work for reform.
The Liberator from:
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves and gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists.
The Pennsylvania Gazette from:
The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States’ most prominent newspapers from 1728—before the time period of the American Revolution—until 1800. Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, it provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog from:
This database primarily is a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from The Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Subscribers will also find information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, and more within this collection.
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record from:
This database documents the move to industrialization from a predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century. The collection contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
The Revolution, 1868-1872 from:
The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper, was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment. It was published between January 8, 1868 and February, 1872.
The Virginia Gazette from:
The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. Issues have the following subtitle: “Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick”. Published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, it contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries.
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals I from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
American History, 1493 - 1945 from:
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York.
Eighteenth Century Journals II from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Colonial America from:
Complete CO 5 files from The National Archives.
Virginia Company Archives from:
An essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period
Eighteenth Century Journals III from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice from:
An essential resources, covering the variety, legacy and continued existence of slavery
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 from:
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 from:
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 offers full-color digital facsimile images of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1670 - 1800 Supplement from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Supplement has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1800-1819 Supplement from:
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Supplement provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century.
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From New-York Historical Society from:
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From New-York Historical Society offers rare items capturing a century of controversies, from slavery to suffrage.
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals I from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals II from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals III from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
American History, 1493 - 1945 from:
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York.
The Freedmen's Record (The Freedmen’s Journal) from:
The Freedmen’s Record provides a unique look at the issues faced by freed slaves and the efforts to provide opportunities for Freedmen entering American society.
The Negro Business League Herald from:
This short-lived periodical provides insights into the activities and accomplishment of both the local NNBL office in Washington, D.C. and the organization in general.
The New Citizen (Votes for Women) from:
This database focuses on the role of newly-enfranchised women in Washington state. Articles discuss a variety of state and regional issues, including labor legislation, divorce laws, wage disparity between men and women, reproductive rights, and more.
The Western Woman Voter from:
Established to serve all women voters throughout the western U.S., Western Woman Voter began publication following the passage of suffrage in Washington State.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2012 from:
An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2012.
The Remonstrance from:
The Remonstrance was the official publication of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. First published annually and later quarterly in Boston from February, 1890 until October, 1913, it provided a forum for women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.
The 51st Pioneers from:
A collection of articles published by the 51st Pioneer Infantry in Germany in the early 1900s.
Coming Back from:
Covers the experiences of American soldiers during World War I.
The Bulletin from:
The Bulletin is a collection of articles published by the senior chaplain’s office for the officers and men of the American embarkation center in the early 1900s.
Plane News from:
A newspaper printed in France during World War I.
The Camp Devens News from:
Articles covering the experiences of American soldiers during the early 1900s at Camp Devens in Massachusetts. Also included are non-war related advertisements, poetry, short stories, memoirs, jokes, and cartoons.
Eighteenth Century Journals I from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
The Camp Bragg News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Bragg, North Carolina, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The MacArthur Carry-On from:
A weekly paper published in the early 1900s for Camp MacArthur in Texas. It covers experiences of American soldiers.
Eighteenth Century Journals II from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
The Camp Dix News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Dix, New Jersey, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
Eighteenth Century Journals III from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
The Camp Knox News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Knox, Kentucky, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
The Funstonian (Convalescent Center News) from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Funston, Kansas, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The Bayonet from:
Weekly camp newspaper focusing on Fort Benning, Georgia.
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Camp Meade Herald from:
A World War I military camp newspaper from Maryland.
Camp Dix Pictorial Review from:
A newspaper produced for the soldiers, parents, and friends stationed at Camp Dix during World War I.
The Camp Pike Carry On from:
U.S. military camp newspaper printed at Camp Pike, Arkansas, during World War I.
The Camp Crane News (Ambulance Service News) from:
A U.S. military newspaper published in Allentown, Pennsylvania by the U.S. Army Ambulance Service Association.
The Fort Bayard News from:
A U.S. military hospital newspaper published in New Mexico.
Camp Dix Times (Trench and Camp-Trenton Evening Times) from:
A weekly publication published under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. during World War I.
The Marine from:
U.S. Marines newspaper.
The Cure from:
World War I military newspaper.
Over The Top from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
The Fly Paper (The Amaroc News) from:
A weekly newspaper for American Expeditionary Forces serving on active duty in France during World War I.
The Right-About (The Home-Again) from:
American military newspaper published by soldiers for soldier patients at the Greenhut, Grand Central, and Ellis Island Debarkation Hospitals and General Hospital at Fox Hills.
Going Over from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
Here and There With the 31st from:
A newspaper published at the front during the Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920.
Home Ties (Over the Top) from:
Army newspaper printed during World War I.
Issues and Events (News Examiner and Commentator; Vital Issue; The American Liberal) from:
A pro-German newspaper published in New York City during World War I.
The Listening-Post from:
Journal of the 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion printed during World War I.
The Merritt Dispatch from:
A weekly journal published at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, during World War I containing jokes, poems, editorials, advertisements, etc.
Afloat and Ashore from:
Military camp newspaper published in Charleston, South Carolina, during World War I.
About Face from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
The Base Bull from:
A World War I U.S. military newspaper published in France.
Camp Custer Bulletin from:
A troop-produced military newspaper featuring articles addressing the concerns of trainees and their families as well as Army memos, jokes, poetry, and cartoons about camp life in World War I.
Camp Jackson Click from:
A World War I military camp newspaper from South Carolina.
The Camp Sherman News (The Eighty-third Division News) from:
A World War I military camp newspaper offering a closer look at the camp's activities and the interests of those in training at the camp.
Gas Attack of The New York Division (Wadsworth Gas Attack; The Rio Grande Rattler) from:
A World War I military camp newspaper published by the 27th Infantry Division while it was training at Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina.
African American Newspapers from:
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
Frank Leslie's Weekly from:
Frank Leslie’s Weekly, later often known as Leslie’s Weekly, actually began life as Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Founded in 1855 and continued until 1922, it was an American illustrated literary and news publication, combining elements of war, politics, art, science, travel and exploration, literature and the fine arts in each weekly issue.
Godey’s Lady’s Book from:
In Philadelphia in 1830 Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey’s Lady’s Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women. The magazine was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like.
National Anti-Slavery Standard from:
National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan to spread their movement across the nation with printed materials. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this society and often addressed meetings at its New York City headquarters.
National Citizen and Ballot Box from:
The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal deeply involved in the roots of the American feminist movement. It was owned and edited by Matilda Joslyn Gage, American women’s rights advocate, who helped to lead and publicize the suffrage movement in the United States. Gage included her intentions for the paper in a prospectus: “Its especial object will be to secure national protection to women citizens in the exercise of their rights to vote…it will oppose Class Legislation of whatever form…Women of every class, condition, rank and name will find this paper their friend.”
South Carolina Newspapers from:
This collection contains a wealth of information on colonial and early American History and genealogy, and provides an accurate glimpse of life in South Carolina and America, with additional coverage of events in Europe, during the early days of this country.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection from:
Collection of English news media from these two centuries.
British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
The Lily from:
The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). The newspaper began as a temperance journal. Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were considered unseemly, writing was the best way for women to work for reform.
British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
The Liberator from:
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves and gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part II: Empire from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers from:
Primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
The Pennsylvania Gazette from:
The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States’ most prominent newspapers from 1728—before the time period of the American Revolution—until 1800. Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, it provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record from:
This database documents the move to industrialization from a predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century. The collection contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
The Revolution, 1868-1872 from:
The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper, was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment. It was published between January 8, 1868 and February, 1872.
The Virginia Gazette from:
The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. Issues have the following subtitle: “Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick”. Published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, it contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online from:
Covers individuals who have shaped all aspects of British history, from the Romans to the 21st Century.
History of Woman Suffrage from:
A history of the women’s suffrage movement, primarily in the United States, from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog from:
This database primarily is a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from The Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Subscribers will also find information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, and more within this collection.
American National Biography Online from:
The premier source of information on over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries from:
The database is a collection of women’s diaries and correspondence, spanning more than 300 years from Colonial times to 1950.
American County Histories from:
American County Histories have long formed the cornerstone of local historical and genealogical research. They include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments and associations, cemeteries, family histories, health and vital statistics, roads and bridges, public officials and legislators, and many additional subject areas.
PapersFirst from:
OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
Electronic Collections Online from:
An OCLC collection of scholarly journals
ProceedingsFirst from:
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings
ERIC from:
Journal articles and reports in education
WorldCat.org from:
OCLC catalog of books, articles, and other materials in libraries worldwide
ArticleFirst from:
OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
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About Face from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
Afloat and Ashore from:
Military camp newspaper published in Charleston, South Carolina, during World War I.
African American Newspapers from:
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 from:
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760 - 1900 offers full-color digital facsimile images of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900.
American County Histories from:
American County Histories have long formed the cornerstone of local historical and genealogical research. They include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments and associations, cemeteries, family histories, health and vital statistics, roads and bridges, public officials and legislators, and many additional subject areas.
American History, 1493 - 1945 from:
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York.
American National Biography Online from:
The premier source of information on over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From New-York Historical Society from:
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From New-York Historical Society offers rare items capturing a century of controversies, from slavery to suffrage.
Archives Unbound from:
Targeted collectons of interest to scholars engaged in serious research.
ArticleFirst from:
OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900 from:
National, regional, and local newspapers in Britain in the 19th century.
Camp Custer Bulletin from:
A troop-produced military newspaper featuring articles addressing the concerns of trainees and their families as well as Army memos, jokes, poetry, and cartoons about camp life in World War I.
Camp Dix Pictorial Review from:
A newspaper produced for the soldiers, parents, and friends stationed at Camp Dix during World War I.
Camp Dix Times (Trench and Camp-Trenton Evening Times) from:
A weekly publication published under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. during World War I.
Camp Jackson Click from:
A World War I military camp newspaper from South Carolina.
Camp Meade Herald from:
A World War I military camp newspaper from Maryland.
Colonial America from:
Complete CO 5 files from The National Archives.
Coming Back from:
Covers the experiences of American soldiers during World War I.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800 has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1670 - 1800 Supplement from:
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Supplement has been hailed as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1800-1819 Supplement from:
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Supplement provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 from:
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century.
Early Encounters in North America from:
Contains letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters between various people.
Early English Books Online MARC Records (Digital only) from:
Digital facsimiles of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America om 1473-1700
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: I and II Complete from:
English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th Century along with works from the Americas.
Eighteenth Century Journals I from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals II from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals III from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Eighteenth Century Journals IV from:
Rare literary, politics, religious and social journals for the long 18th century
Electronic Collections Online from:
An OCLC collection of scholarly journals
ERIC from:
Journal articles and reports in education
Frank Leslie's Weekly from:
Frank Leslie’s Weekly, later often known as Leslie’s Weekly, actually began life as Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Founded in 1855 and continued until 1922, it was an American illustrated literary and news publication, combining elements of war, politics, art, science, travel and exploration, literature and the fine arts in each weekly issue.
Gas Attack of The New York Division (Wadsworth Gas Attack; The Rio Grande Rattler) from:
A World War I military camp newspaper published by the 27th Infantry Division while it was training at Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina.
Godey’s Lady’s Book from:
In Philadelphia in 1830 Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey’s Lady’s Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women. The magazine was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like.
Going Over from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
Here and There With the 31st from:
A newspaper published at the front during the Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920.
History of Woman Suffrage from:
A history of the women’s suffrage movement, primarily in the United States, from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
Home Ties (Over the Top) from:
Army newspaper printed during World War I.
Issues and Events (News Examiner and Commentator; Vital Issue; The American Liberal) from:
A pro-German newspaper published in New York City during World War I.
JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences II Collection from:
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences IX Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences V Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences X Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Collection from:
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV Collection from:
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JSTOR Asia Collection from:
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JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection from:
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JSTOR Business & Economics Collection from:
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JSTOR Business I Collection from:
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JSTOR Business II Collection from:
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JSTOR Business III Collection from:
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JSTOR Business IV Collection from:
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JSTOR Current Scholarship Journals from:
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JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection from:
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JSTOR Ecology & Botany II Collection from:
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JSTOR Health & General Sciences Collection from:
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JSTOR Hebrew Journals Collection from:
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JSTOR Iberoamérica Collection from:
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JSTOR Ireland Collection from:
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JSTOR Jewish Studies Collection from:
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JSTOR Language & Literature Collection from:
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JSTOR Life Sciences Collection from:
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JSTOR Mathematics & Statistics Collection from:
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JSTOR Music Collection from:
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JSTOR Music Legacy Collection from:
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JSTOR Open Access Books from:
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JSTOR Open Access Journals Collection from:
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JSTOR Religion & Theology Collection from:
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Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Primary Sources II from:
Information for researchers of American legal history.
National Anti-Slavery Standard from:
National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan to spread their movement across the nation with printed materials. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this society and often addressed meetings at its New York City headquarters.
National Citizen and Ballot Box from:
The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal deeply involved in the roots of the American feminist movement. It was owned and edited by Matilda Joslyn Gage, American women’s rights advocate, who helped to lead and publicize the suffrage movement in the United States. Gage included her intentions for the paper in a prospectus: “Its especial object will be to secure national protection to women citizens in the exercise of their rights to vote…it will oppose Class Legislation of whatever form…Women of every class, condition, rank and name will find this paper their friend.”
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society from:
Primary sources on the nineteenth century.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I from:
Helps researchers place science, along with medicine and technology, in the mainstream of historical study.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers from:
Primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part II: Empire from:
Collection of British magazines, journals, and specialty newspapers providing an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries from:
The database is a collection of women’s diaries and correspondence, spanning more than 300 years from Colonial times to 1950.
Over The Top from:
Military newspaper from World War I.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online from:
Covers individuals who have shaped all aspects of British history, from the Romans to the 21st Century.
PapersFirst from:
OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
Plane News from:
A newspaper printed in France during World War I.
ProceedingsFirst from:
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings
Project Muse from:
Digital Humanities and social sciences content
Reconstruction of Southern States from:
This assortment of pamphlets was collected by the Department of State Library and comprises speeches, debates, political statements, legislative bills, and more. These pamphlets range in date from 1865 to 1869 and 1877.
Sabin Backfile from:
Collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Cumulative Update from:
Collection of books, serials, and other works about the Americas from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman from:
A biography of the life of the African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy from before the American Civil War until her death in 1913.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection from:
Collection of English news media from these two centuries.
Slavery Anti Slavery from:
The abolitionist movement, the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonization.
Slavery Anti Slavery II from:
Resource for transnational and transatlantic research.
Slavery Anti Slavery III from:
Examines the institution of slavery through legal documents, plantation records, personal accounts, newspapers, and government documents.
Slavery Anti Slavery IV from:
Range of rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice from:
An essential resources, covering the variety, legacy and continued existence of slavery
South Carolina Newspapers from:
This collection contains a wealth of information on colonial and early American History and genealogy, and provides an accurate glimpse of life in South Carolina and America, with additional coverage of events in Europe, during the early days of this country.
The 51st Pioneers from:
A collection of articles published by the 51st Pioneer Infantry in Germany in the early 1900s.
The Base Bull from:
A World War I U.S. military newspaper published in France.
The Bayonet from:
Weekly camp newspaper focusing on Fort Benning, Georgia.
The Bulletin from:
The Bulletin is a collection of articles published by the senior chaplain’s office for the officers and men of the American embarkation center in the early 1900s.
The Camp Bragg News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Bragg, North Carolina, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The Camp Crane News (Ambulance Service News) from:
A U.S. military newspaper published in Allentown, Pennsylvania by the U.S. Army Ambulance Service Association.
The Camp Devens News from:
Articles covering the experiences of American soldiers during the early 1900s at Camp Devens in Massachusetts. Also included are non-war related advertisements, poetry, short stories, memoirs, jokes, and cartoons.
The Camp Dix News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Dix, New Jersey, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The Camp Knox News from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Knox, Kentucky, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The Camp Pike Carry On from:
U.S. military camp newspaper printed at Camp Pike, Arkansas, during World War I.
The Camp Sherman News (The Eighty-third Division News) from:
A World War I military camp newspaper offering a closer look at the camp's activities and the interests of those in training at the camp.
The Civil War: 1855-1869 from:
Content covers such topics as trade with foreign countries; specific industries of the time; slavery; countless editorials discussing pre- and post-war attitudes from both sides; troop movements during the war; the Copperheads, Northerners sympathetic to the South; analysis of the trans-continental railroad; general news articles from around the world; and letters/correspondence.
The Cure from:
World War I military newspaper.
The Fly Paper (The Amaroc News) from:
A weekly newspaper for American Expeditionary Forces serving on active duty in France during World War I.
The Fort Bayard News from:
A U.S. military hospital newspaper published in New Mexico.
The Freedmen's Record (The Freedmen’s Journal) from:
The Freedmen’s Record provides a unique look at the issues faced by freed slaves and the efforts to provide opportunities for Freedmen entering American society.
The Funstonian (Convalescent Center News) from:
Military camp newspaper published in Camp Funston, Kansas, covering the experiences of American Soldiers during World War I.
The Liberator from:
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who advocated the immediate emancipation of all slaves and gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists.
The Lily from:
The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). The newspaper began as a temperance journal. Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were considered unseemly, writing was the best way for women to work for reform.
The Listening-Post from:
Journal of the 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion printed during World War I.
The MacArthur Carry-On from:
A weekly paper published in the early 1900s for Camp MacArthur in Texas. It covers experiences of American soldiers.
The Making of the Modern World: Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850 from:
Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century.
The Making of the Modern World: Part II: 1851-1914 from:
International coverage of social, economic and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization and the birth of the modern corporation.
The Marine from:
U.S. Marines newspaper.
The Merritt Dispatch from:
A weekly journal published at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, during World War I containing jokes, poems, editorials, advertisements, etc.
The Negro Business League Herald from:
This short-lived periodical provides insights into the activities and accomplishment of both the local NNBL office in Washington, D.C. and the organization in general.
The New Citizen (Votes for Women) from:
This database focuses on the role of newly-enfranchised women in Washington state. Articles discuss a variety of state and regional issues, including labor legislation, divorce laws, wage disparity between men and women, reproductive rights, and more.
The Pennsylvania Gazette from:
The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States’ most prominent newspapers from 1728—before the time period of the American Revolution—until 1800. Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, it provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog from:
This database primarily is a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from The Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Subscribers will also find information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, and more within this collection.
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record from:
This database documents the move to industrialization from a predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century. The collection contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
The Remonstrance from:
The Remonstrance was the official publication of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. First published annually and later quarterly in Boston from February, 1890 until October, 1913, it provided a forum for women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.
The Revolution, 1868-1872 from:
The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper, was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment. It was published between January 8, 1868 and February, 1872.
The Right-About (The Home-Again) from:
American military newspaper published by soldiers for soldier patients at the Greenhut, Grand Central, and Ellis Island Debarkation Hospitals and General Hospital at Fox Hills.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2012 from:
An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2012.
The Virginia Gazette from:
The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. Issues have the following subtitle: “Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestick”. Published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, it contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries.
The Western Woman Voter from:
Established to serve all women voters throughout the western U.S., Western Woman Voter began publication following the passage of suffrage in Washington State.
Twelve Years a Slave from:
First-hand account of how fugitive slave laws that allowed African Americans who could not prove their free status to be taken into slavery affected one man’s life.
Virginia Company Archives from:
An essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period
WorldCat.org from:
OCLC catalog of books, articles, and other materials in libraries worldwide
