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Individual Databases for History (American)
America: History and Life
1954-present; article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
English Short Title Catalog
The ESTC, English Short Title Catalog, is an in-process list of books published in all languages in Great Britain, and in English elsewhere, from 1475-1800. [This resource is publicly available.]
Historical Abstracts
1954-present; article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes the U. S. and Canada.
Niles Register Cumulative Index, 1811-1849
Niles' Register - also known as The Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register - was a newsweekly founded by Hezekiah Niles in 1811. It covered both the United States and the world. The Register was famous in its own day for its comprehensiveness and reliability - it was routinely cited as an authoritative source of information in courtrooms and legislatures - and it has since become a standard source of information for historians and genealogists. More than 2,500 full-text articles are embedded in the index and will be retrieved automatically (along with index entries) in response to an appropriate search. The Cumulative Index will be updated at six-month intervals by the addition of at least 500 full-text articles per update.
Nineteenth (19th) Century Masterfile
1802-early 20th Century; provides online access to an enhanced version of the major Anglo-American subject index for periodicals of the 19th century, as well as a number of other general and publication specific indexes for journals, newspapers, and books of the era. Now includes Catalogue of Scientific Papers!
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities. The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of the State University of New York at Binghamton in an internationally-renown website of the same name.
Archive of Early American Images
A database of pictures of the colonial Americas, from the Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, based entirely on primary sources printed or created between 1492 and circa 1825. The Archive of Early American Images is drawn entirely from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library. [This resource is publicly available.]
ARTstor
ARTstor is a rich digital library that offers coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. ARTstor's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Brown provides access to the basic collection of 16,000 images through ARTstor. In 2008, Archivision Digital Research Library was added, offering digital images of important sites, buildings, gardens, parks, and works of public art from the following time periods: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th and 19th Century, Islamic, and Modern. For help getting started see
ARTstor HELP for Brown University users.
Alternative Press Index Archive
1969-1990; international and interdisciplinary, Alternative Press Index Archive provides access to nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.
APS Online
1740-1900; APS (American Periodical Series) Online contains over 1,100 periodicals including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Ethnic NewsWatch and ENW: A History
1980-present; Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press beginning in 1990. ENW: A History covers the years 1960-1989. The experiences and contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Peoples, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans and Arab Americans illuminate three critical decades in U.S. and world history.
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Ongoing; this database knits together more than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home. The writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seaman, wives, and even spies are included. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also.
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
2000 edition; a study of the WPA slave narratives. A massive historical collection, it includes complete records for each narrative identifying the narrator, his or her year of birth, and the county and state where the narrator was in bondage.
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Digital Edition
Ongoing; based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, this resource serves as the foundation for research on every aspect of 17th and 18th century American life. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of over 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819): Shaw-Shoemaker, Digital Edition.
Ongoing, Shaw-Shoemaker covers every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, thoroughly chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Subjects include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Colonial-1950; ongoing. When complete, the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Includes materials from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings.