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Primary Sources and Archival Resources
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C19: The Nineteenth Century IndexAn integrated bibliographic resource for discovering 19th-century books, periodicals, official records, newspapers, and archives.
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Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineDigital primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.
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Accessible ArchivesProvides full text, searchable access to important American magazines and newspapers from the 18th through early 20th centuries.
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American Periodicals (APS)Searchable, full text of selected American periodicals of all kinds published between 1740 and 1900.
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Black Drama: Third EditionContains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 Black playwrights.
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British Library NewspapersProvides full-text, searchable access to more than 160 newspapers reflecting 18th- through 20th-century British culture and politics.
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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 & Series II: SupplementProvides full-text access to American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century, covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.
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Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture and EntertainmentOver 4700 plays published in the United States in the nineteenth century. Includes prompt books and manuscripts.
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Romanticism: Life, Literature and LandscapeDigital collection of manuscripts by William Wordsworth and his contemporaries.
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RotundaA digital collection of critical and documentary editions published by the University of Virginia Press.
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Scottish Women PoetsIncludes full text of 60 volumes of poetry from approximately 50 poets from 1789 to 1832.
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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900An index to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details.
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Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875Full-text electronic archive based on the bibliography compiled by Lyle Wright. Consists of 2,887 novels and other works of fiction by 1,456 authors, published between 1851-1875.
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British Fiction 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation & ReceptionCardiff University's Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research produced this listing of nearly 2300 works by around 900 authors. Entries include information about format, editions, advertisements, reviews and may be searched or browsed. Quite useful for anyone doing work in this period.
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Documenting the American SouthDocumenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
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The Periodical Poetry IndexThe Periodical Poetry Index is a research database of citations to English-language poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals, including texts by nineteenth-century British and American poets, poets from earlier periods, and poems in English translation. The Periodical Poetry Index is a resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century periodicals and poetry. (free)
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Literary Manuscripts from the Berg CollectionVictorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library
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Mark Twain Project OnlineThe project's purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote
Last Updated: Nov 20, 2025 1:39 PM
Subjects: Humanities
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