New Database: Images of the American Civil War

Images of the American Civil War Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera presents the dramatic imagery of nineteenth-century Americana as experienced from the social, military, and political perspectives. At completion, the collection will present 75,000 images drawn from archives around the country, documenting the camp and battle experiences of Union and […]

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New Database: Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to […]

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New Database Trial: Springer Ebooks

Springer Ebooks With more than 10,000 eBooks online in 2006 and 3,000 new titles added annually, scientists and researchers will quickly gain access to a massive collection of information with just a few mouse clicks. The Springer eBook collection offers the first book selection especially arranged to meet the requirements of researchers and scientists. It […]

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New Database Trial: Slavery, Abolotion and Social Justice 1490-2007

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice 1490-2007 This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice […]

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New Database Trial: Perdita Manuscripts

Perdita Manuscripts This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. Adam Matthew Digital […]

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New Database Trial: Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c 1685-1815

Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c 1685-1815 Eighteenth Century Journals I contains material from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, one of the finest surviving collections of eighteenth-century periodicals. In this resource we have drawn together 95 rare journals printed between 1693 and 1799, combining major publications with more […]

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New Database Trial: Everyday Life & Women in America c. 1800-1920

Everyday Life & Women in America c. 1800-1920 This digital collection is an unparalleled resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing immediate access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable […]

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New Database: The Birds of North America Online

The Birds of North America Online This database provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird’s songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Includes […]

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