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19th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
 
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19th century U.S. newspapers (see Nineteenth century U.S. newspapers)
Searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations
included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century.
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20th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
A collection of thousands of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic
publications. Formerly known as the History E-Book Project.
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Adams papers
"... John Adams's complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers. This XML edition presents
in a searchable online environment all 30 volumes of The Adams Papers from the founding generation that have so far appeared in print."-- Home page.
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Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963
This collection comprises, in their entirety, the Scholarly Resources microfilm collections entitled Records of the Department of State relating to internal
affairs, Afghanistan, 1945-1949; Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs, Afghanistan, 1960-1963; and, Records of the Department of State relating to political relations, U.S. and Afghanistan, 1930-1959. Part of Archives Unbound.
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American broadsides and ephemera. Series I
"Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection ... offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed
between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900."--Product description.
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American Civil War research database
"Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. ... In addition to 222
volumes of rosters published by the state Adjutants Generals, the database includes the military records for every soldier in the collection as well as Official Records, pension index records, 1860 census records, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) records, Roll of Honor records, Medal of Honor records, and regimental histories. This information has been compiled from personal items, graveyards, and newspaper reports."--About page.
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American Indian correspondence
Collection of almost 14,000 letters written by Presbyterian missionaries to the American Indians during the years from 1833 to 1893. Part of Archives Unbound.
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American Indian Movement and Native American radicalism
"Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis
of the nature of social injustice in America. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism."--About this collection. Part of Archives Unbound.
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American poetry
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American President
Provides a comprehensive collection of material about the U.S. Presidents and the history of the presidency. Features essays about each President and their
lives before, during, and after their presidential terms. Provides information about the First Lady and cabinet officials of each administration.
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American state papers, 1789-1838
Coverage: 1789-1838
Search or browse U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress,
2nd Session.
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Black abolitionist archive
Searchable database of digitized original source materials containing editorials, speeches, and news reports by and relating to African American abolitionists
from 1830-1865. Indexes available for people, organizations, subjects, keywords, newspapers, and dates.
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Black thought and culture
"source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000
pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials... intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art."--'About the database' page.
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Black women writers
Literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora. A tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and
development of black people in the Diaspora.
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Contemporary authors (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Dictionary of literary biography (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Documentary history of the ratification of the Constitution
Database of thousands of sources to trace the U.S. Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions in the period 1787 through
1791.
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Dolley Madison
Searchable database of the correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison, seen as the most important First Lady of the nineteenth century. Will ultimately include
close to 2,500 letters. An important scholarly contribution to the literature of the early republic, women's history, and the institution of the First Lady.
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Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection
The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967-1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians
in Oklahoma.
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Early American imprints. Series I, Evans, 1639-1800
Covering American history and literature from the colonial period through the 18th century, this database of some 37,000 titles is a full-text digitization
of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography.
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Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this database provides full-text access to 36,000 American books,
pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the 19th century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
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Encyclopedia of American foreign policy
Online version of the 3-volume Encyclopedia of American foreign policy, published by Scribner in 2002.
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First World War
Provides access to original documents related to the First World War, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects
and a wealth of visual resources, such as maps, from archives around the world.
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History E-book project (ACLS) (see ACLS Humanities E-Book)
A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.
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Humanities E-book project (ACLS) (see ACLS Humanities E-Book)
A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.
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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from
the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
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In motion
A new interpretation of African American history over the last 400 years which includes essays, books, articles, manuscripts, illustrations, lesson plans,
maps and music.
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In the first person
Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden
to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
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Jack Kerouac romnibus
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3521 .E735 Z633 1995
Multimedia presentation of the life and work of Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation author and poet, via text, photographs, graphics, sound, animation, and video;
complete works and excerpted writings of Kerouac, archival materials, biographical information, interviews, and bebop music.
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James Madison papers, 1723-1836
Consists of approximately 12,000 items housed in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, captured in some 72,000 digital images, including correspondence,
personal notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autobiography, legal and financial documents, and miscellaneous manuscripts. Highlights include a copy of Thomas Jefferson's notes from the Continental Congress of 1776, including Jefferson's copy of the Declaration of Independence as amended by Congress. Among Madison's correspondents were Jefferson, Dolly Madison, James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Noah Webster.
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JFK's foreign affairs and international crises, 1961-1963
This digital collection, originally microfilmed as JFK and Foreign Affairs, 1961-1963, consists of all three sections of the microfilm product: Subject
file, Regional security file, and Departments & agencies. Part of Archives Unbound.
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LION, literature online
A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key
criticism and reference resources. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
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Literature resource center
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text articles from numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Manuscript women's letters and diaries
"... brings together 100,000 pages [when complete] of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images
of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time."--Home page.
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Native American collection
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic E 12 .N38 1998
Includes Dawes Final Rolls with names of citizens and freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory, Chilocco Indian School Records, 1896 Dawes
enrollment applications, Dawes Rejected Names, microfilm catalog of Oklahoma Historical Society and National Archives Native American and Southwest Regional Archives in Fort Worth, scanned photographs of prominent tribal members and their families, directory of addresses of Native American tribes. The texts of D.C. Gideon's Indian Territory, H.F. and E.S. O'Beines' Indian Territory and Paul W.H. Dewitz's Notable Men of Indian Territory are also included.
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Nineteenth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Nineteenth century U.S. newspapers
Searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrationsretained.
Includes newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. and encompasses the entire 19th century.
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North American Indian drama
Full text of plays by American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century, information about the plays and their production, and biographical
data. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada , including Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock , and others. Also includes issues of the Native playwrights' newsletter.
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North American women's drama
When complete, this collection will include more than 1,500 plays written by women, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information
spanning from the 18th century to the present.
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North American women's letters and diaries
Provides access to some 150,000 pages of letters and diaries of 1,300+ women writing from Colonial times to 1950. Writers reflect all age groups and life
stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.
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Oral history online
Provides indexing to English language oral histories held in repositories and collections; includes interview-level records (some with full text; some
with links to audio or video on external websites).
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Overland journeys
"Comprised of selections from the microfilm collections Travels in the West and Southwest and the Plains & Rockies, this digital collection provides a
unique window on Western History. Selections are based on the bibliographies, The Plains and Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865, and The Trail West: A Bibliography-Index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869."--Publisher's description. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Papers of Alexander Hamilton
"... contains all twenty-seven volumes of the print edition -- all the writings by and to Hamilton known to exist, some 12,500 documents -- including all
editorial annotations." -- Home page
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Papers of George Washington
A landmark in historical scholarship, The Papers of George Washington encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries. This digital edition offers
the complete Papers to date in one online publication. The search may be conducted on full text and by date, author, or recipient across all volumes and series. The exceptional indexing of the individual print volumes is combined here into a single master index, and all internal document cross-references are linked.
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Papers of James Madison digital edition
Contains all content of the print edition and adds linked cross-references and more. As chief author of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, secretary
of state during the Louisiana Purchase, and the fourth president of the United States, Madison played a central role in the American founding and the growth of the early Republic.
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Papers of Thomas Jefferson
The collected papers of the third U.S. president, author of the Declaration of Independence, a chief figure of the Enlightenment. Brings together all 33
vols. published through 2006 into one searchable online resource.
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Popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest contains original archival materials about popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975. Topics
include student protests, civil rights, consumerism, and the Vietnam War. The collection includes pamphlets, letters, government files, eye witness accounts, underground magazines, visual and video materials and ephemera and memorabilia.
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Records of the Persian Gulf War
"...contains materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait on August 2, 1990"--Home page. Date range of documents: 1990-1991. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest (see Popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975)
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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography [Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time],
this [online] collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions ..."--Gale databases description.
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Social history of crime and punishment in America
Surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present. Covers the whole
criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services.
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Social theory
Full-text searchable books and articles by major and minor social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China relations, 1989-1993
"This digital collection reviews U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and analyzes the significance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations,
China's human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990"--Home page. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Twentieth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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U.S. immigration and migration reference library
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U.S. Middle East peace policy and America's role in the Middle East peace process, 1989-1993
"This collection contains Bush Presidential Records from a variety of White House offices. These files consist of letters of correspondence, memoranda,
coversheets, notes, distribution lists, newspaper articles, informational papers, published articles, and reports from the public, the Congress, Bush administration officials, and other various federal agencies primarily regarding American Middle East peace policy and the United States' role in the many facets of the Middle East peace process"--Home page. Part of Archives Unbound.
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United States congressional serial set
Coverage: years 1817-1994
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Virginia Company archives
Documentation for the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. Includes the
Ferrar Papers which are in Magdalene College, Cambridge and four volumes of The Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington, D.C., 1906-35), edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury.
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Washington Irving
Call Number: HESB RES PS2052 .S458 2003
Fourteen books by Washington Irving, including the The Sketchbook of Goeffrey Crayon (with stories like Rip van Winkle) and the Adventures of Captain Bonneville,
plus one book about him.
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Women working
Provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums
on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930.
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World Bank e-Library
Coverage: 1995-
Contains full-text cross-searchable books, reports, journals, and working papers on social, economic, and international development from the World Bank.
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