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- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new windowDigital collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912 covering advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
- American Periodicals Series Online, 1741-1940 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowA primary source collection of general interest magazines, trade publications, and professional journals published in America between 1741 and 1940. The collection covers three broad periods: America's transition from colonial times to independence; the early 19th century "golden age of American periodicals" including general interest magazines, children's publications, and journals for women; and Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction America.
- British Periodicals 1 & 2 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowIncludes over 587 journals that comprise the microfilm collection Early British Periodicals Series I and II. Covers topics in literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, and the social sciences.
- Early Encounters in North America: People, Cultures, and the Environment (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowChronicles accounts of exploration, discovery, travel, environment, peoples, and cultures in North America from 1534-1850. Includes over 100,000 pages of published and unpublished material by 1,482 authors, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts. The collection's focus is on present-day Canada and the United States with limited coverage of Mexico.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Parts 1 & 2 (Gale) This link opens in a new windowBased on The English Short Title Catalogue, a historical bibliography of works printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, ECCO provides more than 180,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowA vast collection of primary sources, as well as document projects, that examine interpretive questions concerning U.S. women's history in social movements from colonial times through the twentieth century. Provides access to documents, images, books, chronologies, biographies, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies. New primary documents and document projects are added annually.