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Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
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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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 19th Century Masterfile (Paratext) | 1802-1906 | |
| Index to 19th-Century Anglo-American publications. Periodical indices include: Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1970; Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922; Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902; and An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899. Patent and Government Document indices include: Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897), Subject Matter Index of Patents Issued by the U. S. (1790-1873), Cobett's Parliamentary History of England (1066-1803), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830), Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Index to Congressional Record of the first 40 US Congresses. | ||
| ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank) | |
1690-1922 |
| Currently includes text of early American newspapers. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| America: History and Life (EBSCOHost) | 1964-current | |
| Index to articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, book and media reviews on history and culture of U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Does not work with IE on a Mac | ||
| 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. | ||
| American Periodical Series (ProQuest) | |
1741-1920s |
| Index to and digitized images of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and the early 20th century. | ||
| American State Papers (Newsbank) | |
1789-1838 |
| Covering the 1st-25th Congresses,the Papers precede and overlap the Serial Set collection. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Arts & Humanities Search (FirstSearch) | 1980-current | |
| Index to articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more in leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from social science and science journals. | ||
| Black Studies Center (Proquest) | ||
| Gateway to Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index. | ||
| 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. | ||
| British Humanities Index (CSA) | 1962-current | |
| Indexes over 320 arts and humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. | ||
| British Periodicals | Late 17th-early 20th cent. | |
| Searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| DDRS (Declassified Documents Reference System) (Gale) | |
1940s-1970s |
| Contains previously classified government documents covering major domestic and international events since the end of World War II. Documents include cabinet meeting minutes, correspondence, diary entries, intelligence reports, political analyses and technical studies from the White House, State Department, National Security Agency, FBI, and CIA. | ||
| Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck Healey) | |
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| Significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Largest collection of contemporary declassified national security information outside the United States Government. Comprised of 15 collections, each of which contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, etc. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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). | ||
| 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. | ||
| Encyclopaedia Judaica (Macmillan) | |
2007 |
| Jewish culture, history, and religion | ||
| English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) | To 1801 | |
| Union catalog of holdings in more than 2000 libraries world-wide, including the British Library. Covers monograph and serial letterpress items printed before 1801 in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages and printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars. Includes records for every item in Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 (STC); every item in Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700; every item in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (the predecessor of ESTC), including items catalogued by the American Antiquarian Society as part of the North American Imprints Program (NAIP); and newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. | ||
| Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922 (EPPI) | |
1801-1922 |
| Full-text of some 13,700 British Parliamentary papers. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index | 1996-current | |
| Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Books written by a single author are not indexed. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Guide to "India During the Raj" Microfilm 1044, pt. 2 (Adam Matthew) | 1819-1859 | |
| Diaries and related records describing life in India, 1819-1859 | ||
| HarpWeek | 1857-1912 | |
| Digitized access to America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. | ||
| Historical Abstracts (EBSCOHost) | 1955-current | |
| World history after 1450, excluding U.S. and Canada: articles, books, collections, and dissertations. Does not work with IE on a Mac | ||
| Historical Census Browser | 1790-1960 | |
| Data on the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960 from ICPSR and the University of Virginia's Geostat Center. | ||
| Historical Statistics of the United States | |
1790-Present |
| Historical statistics of the United States ranging from migraton to economics to population to health to work and welfare to the Confederate States of America placed in historical context. | ||
| History E-Book Project (now ACLS Humanities E-Book) | |
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| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (Chadwyck Healey) | 1800-1900 | |
| 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. | ||
| Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Index Islamicus (CSA) | 1906-current | |
| Indexes literature (journals, conference proceedings, monographs, etc.) on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world from 1906-current. Includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. | ||
| ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance (Iter) | 400-1700 | |
| Bibliography of articles, essays, books, and reviews covering Medieval and Renaissance Europe. | ||
| Luna Insight | ||
| Software tool for building, publishing, searching and presenting collections of digital images and other media via the web. The Vassar College system currently contains ten different collections with over 200,000 images including art from prehistory to contemporary, architectural photographs, images from Colonial America, historical maps from the Americas and Asia, and select items from the National Palace in Taipei. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Middle English Dictionary | 1100-1500 | |
| Comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. | ||
| Nation Archive (Ebsco) | |
1865- |
| America's oldest weekly magazine and journals of opinion, covering politics, culture, books and the arts | ||
| 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 | ||
| Nineteenth Century (Proquest) | 1801-1900 | |
| Index to Nineteenth-Century English language works available on microfiche. VC has part of the General Collection (microfiche #1.1.1- # 1.1.14337), covering Politics, Economics, Geography and Topography, Agriculture, History and Archaeology, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Psychology, Education, Recreation, Science, Medicine, Useful Arts, Religion, Household Management and the entire Specialist Collection (Publishing, the Booktrade and the Diffusion of Knowledge) in the Microtext Room. | ||
| 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." | ||
| Nineteenth Century Masterfile (Paratext) | 1802-1906 | |
| Index to Anglo-American publications from the 19th century. Periodical indices include: Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1970; Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922; Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902; and An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899. Patent and Government Document indices include: Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897), Subject Matter Index of Patents Issued by the U. S. (1790-1873), Cobett's Parliamentary History of England (1066-1803), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830), Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Index to Congressional Record of the first 40 US Congresses. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Periodicals Archive Online (Chadwyck Healey) | 1802-1995 | |
| Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,700 periodicals. | ||
| Periodicals Index Online (Chadwyck-Healey) (formerly PCI) | 1665-1995 | |
| Indexes scholarly journals in humanities and
social sciences from their first issues to 1995. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.
Does not work on IE with a Mac | ||
| Perseus Digital Library | |
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| Evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Includes Greek and Roman texts and tools and primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature (Renaissance) | ||
| Readers' Guide Abstracts (WilsonWeb) | 1983-current | |
| Contains abstracts of articles from popular magazines on business,fashion, consumer affairs,fine arts, current events,health and nutrition, education, sports. | ||
| Readers' Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb) | 1890-1982 | |
| Indexes articles from the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. Reflects the history of 20th century America. | ||
| 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. | ||
| U.S. Congressional Serial Set (Newsbank) | |
15th-90th Congresses, 2nd session, 1817-1967, Serial Set Vols. 1-12792 |
| Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Upon completion, the set will cover 1817-1980. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| Victorian Database Online | 1945-current | |
| References to articles, books, and dissertations on every field of nineteenth-century British studies. | ||
| 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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