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  American Periodicals Series - APS Online (ProQuest) [Details]

Search a selection of periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

  America’s Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex) [Details]

A digital collection of early American newspapers from 1690 to 1922, that includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-1920.

  British Periodicals Collection I (ProQuest) [Details]

The database consists of more than 160 journals spanning the late 17th through early 20th centuries, and covering a range of topics such as literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. This resource has facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published.

  Early American Imprints, Series I Evans (1639-1800) [Details]

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides. It includes information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.

  Early English Books Online (EEBO) [Details]

Full-text page images of over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue, Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, and Thomason Tracts which cover titles printed in English between 1473-1700. For searchable text of selected titles see Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership

  Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership [Details]

Searchable full-text of selected texts from EEBO. When complete 25,000 titles will be available. The text links to the page images in EEBO

  Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) [Details]

Access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

  Historical New York Times (ProQuest) [Details]

The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851 to the present with the exception of the most current two years. Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.

  Literature Online (Chadwyck) [Details]

A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

  The Times Archives 1785-1985 [Details]

The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.

  Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry [Details]

Includes 13,000 poems in full-text and 250,000 poetry citations, in addition to several important new features—commentaries, bibliographies, notes on form and a glossary of prosodic terms.

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  African American Newspapers: The 19th Century [Details]

Includes the complete text of major 19th century African-American newspapers. Also included are early biographies, essays and editorials and vital statistics in 8 works such as Freedman's Journal (1827-1830), The North Star (1847-1851) and Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859).

  Black Drama [Details]

When completed, this database will contain the full-text of 1,200 plays, written from the mid-1800s to the present, by more than 100 playwrights worldwide including such notables as Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, performance information and images. The collection covers key writings from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement from the 1960s and 1970s as well as 20th century African and Caribbean drama.

  Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective [Details]

Contains full-text of more than 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern and Southern newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865. Contains news articles, eye-witness and official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies and over 700 images of battlefield maps and illustrations.

  Medieval Sources Online (Manchester Univ. Press) [Details]

This database contains full-text translations of primary sources from AD 640-1600. There are over three thousand pages of medieval sources annotated and edited to the high standard expected of a university press with over a century of experience.

  Past Masters [Details]

Contains full-text of scholarly editions of many philosophers, theologians and literary writers: Anselm, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austen, British Philosophy 1600-1900, Continental Rationalist, Descartes, Dewey, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Nietzsche, Ockham, Pierce, Plato, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill and Wittgenstein, Mary Shelley, John Synge and Mary Wollestonecraft.

  Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 [Details]

Full-text transcription and digitized image of the actual newspaper page as it originally appeared.

  Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870 [Details]

Full-text transcriptions from 6 nineteenth century Delaware County newspapers.

  Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries [Details]

PACSCL includes major archival repositories and the libraries of some of the country's most prestigious universities, museums and learned societies.

  Play Index (Wilson) [Details]

This index provides bibliographic citations over some 30,000 plays published individually or in anthologies and collections going back to 1949.

  Poole's Plus: Index to Periodical Literature & Supplements [Details]

A web edition of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906, covering 479 American and English periodicals of the 19th century. The database has integrated essential date and title information not contained in the original volumes.

  Readers’ Guide Retrospective (Wilson) [Details]

Provides citations to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

  Short Story Index (Wilson) [Details]

Provides a practical way to locate over 76,000 short stories online. The database includes the full text of 1,600 stories. More than 4,025 collections are indexed and made searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique, and source, or any combination thereof. Coverage is retrospective back to 1984.

  Wright American Fiction [Details]

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.