HIST 110 - U.S. Experience to 1877 Bernier (Fall 2016): Databases

These comprehensive online resources offer more than 100,000 early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials. Featuring extensive indexing and full bibliographic information, they together illuminate more than 250 years of American history, literature, culture and daily life. Unique and authoritative, these fully searchable products enable researchers to browse and explore America's past in unprecedented ways. Collections include:

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900
Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the American Antiquarian Society, 1652-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the American Antiquarian Society, 1801-1819

Coverage:
1857 - 1871

HarpWeek is a unique online journal database that provides complete images and hypertext linking of the journal during the Civil War years (1857-1865) and the Reconstruction years (from 1866-1871). Researchers are able to access the illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads that are a part of these historic volumes. Civil War and Reconstruction researchers should find this to be a valuable primary resource.

Gender Studies Database combines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues.

A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 87 document projects with almost 2700 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors. It includes as well book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

Coverage
1972 and Earlier to the Present

Produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.

Coverage:
1955 - present

Historical Abstracts indexes and provides abstract summaries to sources on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a periodical database unmatched in breadth.

Coverage
1845-1991

Full-text of the Los Angeles Times from 1881 to 1993.

Provides full-text access to The New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and The New York Times (1857-2016).

Digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. (1801-1899)