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New York Times, 1851-2017 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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Search the complete text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2017 for PDF images of original articles which include photographs and drawings

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America: History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present
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Articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. NOTE: In many cases, articles from the last 3-5 years are NOT available due to publisher copyright restrictions.
HarpWeek This link opens in a new window
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"The 56 years of Harper’s Weekly provide a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912. The first segment includes the Civil War Era: 1857-1865. The next two cover Reconstruction: 1866-1871 and 1872-1877. The last six encompass the Gilded Age: 1878-1912."
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1940 This link opens in a new window
Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, including 118 periodicals published during the Civil War.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages (over 28 million articles) of primary source newspaper content from the 19th-century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database indexes high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Provides a history of the American people and a testament to the growth of the nation from the colonial period through to the twentieth century.
Humanities Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Humanities Source is a valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
Gilded Age, The This link opens in a new window
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Spanning from 1865 to 1902, The Gilded Age provides insight into the key issues that shaped America in the late nineteenth century, including race and ethnicity, immigration, labor, women's rights, American Indians, political corruption, and monetary policy.

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