Electronic Indexes and Databases by Document Type
| Archival Collections and Primary Source Databases | ||
Title and Description |
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| 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale) | 17th-18th centuries | |
| Digitized versions of the British Library's Burney Collection. Includes newspapers, newsbooks, pamphlets, addresses, broadsides, proclamations, Acts of Parliament, etc. | ||
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| 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale) |  |
1800-1900 |
| Full runs of selected 19th-Century British newspapers including national and regional papers and those from established country or university towns and the manufacturing Midlands as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Includes newspapers that helped lead political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule and penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes. | ||
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| American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) | |
1855-1875 |
| Full text of diaries, letters, and memoirs written between 1855 and 1875 by the famous and the unknown. Gives not only Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. Provides biographical information on the authors. | ||
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| Archives of Americana (Newsbank) | |
dates vary |
| Family of historical collections containing books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. Includes America's Historical Newspapers, American State Papers, 1789-1838, Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 187-1980. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
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| Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975 (Alexander Street Press) | |
Earliest times to 1975 |
| Non-fiction published works of leading African Americans: monographs, essays, speeches, interviews, journal articles, letters, biographical essays by leading scholars and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. | ||
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| British Periodicals | Late 17th-early 20th cent. | |
| Searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th. | ||
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| C19 The Nineteenth Century Index | ||
| Integrated access to indexes for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online, as well as indexing British Periodicals Collections I and II. | ||
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| Carlyle Letters Online: a Victorian Cultural Reference | ||
| Collection of the letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Features correspondence with some of the most influential artistic, philosophic, and literary personalities of the day. | ||
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| Documenting the American South | |
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| Digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Projects include slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana. Sponsored by the American Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. | ||
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| Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker | |
1801-1819 |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819). Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker | ||
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| Early American Imprints/Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | 1639-1800 | |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. | ||
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| Early Canadiana Online (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions) | |
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| Digital versions of texts of works from Canada's heritage. Includes Canadian Women's History, Champlain Society Publications, Colonial Government Journals, English Canadian Literature, and more. | ||
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| Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (Alexander Street Press) | |
dates vary |
| Contains primary texts on the people, cultures, and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The database focuses on personal accounts (published and unpublished) and reflects the relationships among the various cultures as well as the environment. | ||
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| Early English Books Online (Proquest) | |
1475-1700 |
| Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). | ||
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) | |
1701-1800 |
| A project in progress that when completed will contain a digital version of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. VC has a significant number of these titles on microfilm: Microfilm 981 for Eighteenth Century Literature and Language and Microfilm 982 for Eighteenth Century Religion and Philosophy. | ||
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| Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | |
1639-1800 |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans' American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
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| France in America/La France en Amerique | |
Early 16th-early 19th centuries |
| History of the French presence in North America and interactions between the French and American peoples from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries. Digital versions of rare books, manuscripts, maps and material from the print collections of the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque nationale de France. | ||
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| Gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France) | |
Middle Ages-20th Century |
| Fulltext collections (dossiers), grouped by themes. Interface in English; much of the fulltext is English. Interface also available in French. | ||
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| Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1542-1945 (Chadwyck-Healey) | |
1543-1945 |
| Contains primary source materials in women's history that span four centuries and fifteen languages. | ||
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| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (Chadwyck Healey) | 1800-1900 | |
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| Hudson River Valley Heritage | |
Varies |
| Collection of photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs from events, memorabilia and ephemera, audio and video clips, and many other materials from New York State's Hudson River Valley region libraries, archives, and museums. | ||
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| Images of Early Vassar | 1861-early 20th cent. | |
| Materials relating to the early history of Vassar College, from its founding in 1861 to the early years of the 20th century. Includes 200 photographic images. | ||
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| In the First Person | |
1550s-2000s |
| Index to more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Contains references to diaries, letters, and oral histories. | ||
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| Making of America (Cornell) | |
1840-1900 |
| Contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. | ||
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| Making of America (University of Michigan) | |
Antebellum period through reconstruction |
| Contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Currently contains books and journal articles with 19th century imprints. | ||
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| New York Heritage Digital Collections | ||
| Gateway to hundreds of digital collections of images, artifacts, and documents about New York State's people, places, and institutions. | ||
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| Niles Register: Cumulative Index, 1811-1849 | 1811-1849 | |
| Index to Niles’ Register, a microfiche collection of 19th century newspaper clippings covering both the U.S. and the world. Also known as The Weekly Register, Niles’ Weekly Register, and Niles’ National Register.
Includes more than 2,500 full-text articles.
Limited to 1 user at a time | ||
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| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers (Gale) | |
1800-1900 |
| Contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. Includes "national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection." | ||
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| North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) | |
Colonial-1950 |
| Includes full-text of women's letters and diaries. Also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. | ||
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| Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck Healey) | |
200 AD-1216 |
| Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Contains the complete first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855) including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes (1862-1865) | ||
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| Siku Quanshu | ||
| Siku Quanshu, comprising four traditional divisions of Jing (Classics), Shi (Records), Zi (Scholars) and Ji (Collections), contains more than 3,400 titles, total of 79,000 volumes bound into more than 36,000 books on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, etc. These classics represent the most abundant, complete and comprehensive canon of Chinese civilization. PC only, Internet Explorer only. Follow link to download software and instructions for installing. | ||
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| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press) | |
1600-2000 |
| History of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. | ||
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