History Librarian
Gender & Sexuality Studies Librarian
Primary Source Databases
Best Bets
- Archive of Americana This link opens in a new windowCombined access to six databases containing full text of historical American books, newspapers & periodicals.
- American Broadsides and Ephemera 1749-1900 This link opens in a new windowOver 30,000 broadsides and ephemeral publications.
Other Possibilities
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, 1684-1912 This link opens in a new windowCollection of digitized periodicals from 1684-1912.
- American Periodicals (APS) This link opens in a new windowSearchable, full text of selected American periodicals of all kinds published between 1740 and 1900.
- American Historical Periodicals This link opens in a new windowProvides a history of the American people and a testament to the growth of the nation from the colonial period through to the twentieth century.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowCollection of 18th century books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc. published in the UK.
- Founders OnlineLetters and other writings by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
- Making of the Modern World,1450-1914 This link opens in a new windowDigital and searchable editions of more than 70,000 titles, published between 1450 and 1945.
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowOnline backfile of The Times newspaper of London, England, covering 1785 to 2014.