Databases
- Accessible Archives This link opens in a new windowAccessible Archives includes diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views of United States history and culture, especially African American history and women's history and historical newspapers. The date scope focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- American Periodicals Series, 1741-1940 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowDigitized images of the pages of 1000 American magazines and journals published between 1741 and 1940. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, and Ladies' Home Journal.
- American State Papers (Readex/Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowUnited States legislative and executive documents from the start of the republic in 1789 to the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.
- Colonial America (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowThis online collection from the UK National Archives, currently being digitized, covers the period 1606-1822. Among the correspondence are diaries, maps, broadsides, laws, public notices, newspaper clippings, and more. Images of the original documents and searchable full text, also searchable by date, name, theme, region and more.
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex/NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowBooks, pamphlets and broadsides published in America over a 160-year period. Providing complete digital editions of nearly 38,000 printed works, Series I covers subjects ranging from history, literature and culture to politics, government and society.
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 (Readex/Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowThis rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation in the early 19th century.
- Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowEarly American newspapers, often printed by small-town printers, documented the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities, supported different political parties and recorded both majority and minority views.Note: Northeastern has Series 1 only.
- State Papers Online, Great Britain 1509-1714 (Gale) This link opens in a new windowOriginal historical materials from Tudor and Stuart Britain, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people. The correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators. Northeastern users have access to Parts I-IV.
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowPopular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 is a collection of digitized primary sources documenting the advertising and use of health treatments marketed directly to the American public. Material types include printed books and pamphlets, anatomy guides, broadsides, posters, trade cards, and ephemera.
Online Resources
- American IndependenceFordham University's Internet History Sourcebook on the Revolutionary period.
- Archive of Early American ImagesA database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.
- Colonial Charters Collection (Yale)Transcriptions of early colonial charters and early state constitutions.
- Colonial North AmericaFordham University's Internet History Sourcebook for the colonial era of North America.
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789Contains 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
- Early Americas Digital ArchiveThe Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute Collectionsthe Gilder Lehrman Collection contains more than eighty-five thousand items documenting the political, social, and economic history of the United States. Chronologically, the Collection ranges from 1493 to the end of the twentieth century.
- Plymouth Colony Archive ProjectThis Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies.