Other Catalogs, Digital Collections, Databases, and Indexes
Accessible Archives
- Full text databases of early American periodicals and books
including
The Liberator, Godey's Lady's Book, and The Pennsylvania
Gazette.
Connect to Accessible Archives
from any AAS terminal
America: History and Life
- Index of articles and reviews relating to U.S. and Canadian history
from
over 1,700 journal titles.
Updated monthly.
Connect to
America: History and
Life from any AAS terminal
America's GenealogyBank
- America's GenealogyBank is an online collection created for
genealogists by Readex. It contains historical
newspapers, books, pamphlets, genealogies, and more than 23 million obituaries
Connect
to America's
GenealogyBank
American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution,
1774-1776
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Beginning in 1837 the printer Peter Force, who also served as mayor of
Washington, D.C., devoted sixteen years to collecting thousands of
pamphlets, booklets, and newspaper articles pertaining to the "Origin,
Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America" from the
Revolutionary Era in order to preserve them for future generations. He
published them in a set of nine large volumes that he called the
American Archives. By the late twentieth century Force's collection of
materials from the years 1774-6 had become a valuable scholarly
resource, as it contained the only surviving copies of many important
documents. But while a number of large research libraries around the
world held the American Archives in their collections, it remained an
underused resource. Scholars and students alike struggled with Force's
unwieldy index and complicated organization of the materials. In 2001
Northern Illinois University Libraries and Professor Allan Kulikoff of
the University of Georgia received grant funding from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to support the digitization of the American
Archives and their presentation in a free-use World Wide Web site. This
site will allow its users to use sophisticated search and indexing
software to explore Force's volumes. Professor Kulikoff has also
produced a thematic indexing scheme describing the contents of every
individual text in the American Archives collection. Together, these
tools will offer scholars, students, and lifetime learners with
unprecedented new access to these important primary source materials
from American history.
Connect
to American Archives
American Periodicals Series Online
Americana Exchange
- The Americana Exchange is a web-based site intended to help book
collectors understand book collecting generally and the Americana field
specifically. Two databases are available on this site. The first is
the bibliographical database initially exclusively for the Americana
and European-Americana fields. The second database matches categorization
of upcoming auctions with stated collector preferences. Stated
preferences will be matched against more than 40 auction houses
regularly offering material in North America and Europe.
Connect
to Americana Exchange
See Readers' Services for database access.
Ancestry Library Edition
- Ancestry Plus provides access to census, military, birth, marriage and
death records.
Connect to Ancestry
Library Edition from any AAS terminal.
Gale's Literary Index
- Gale's Literary Index is a master index to Gale's literature series,
including more than 130,000 author names, pseudonyms and variant names.
Connect to Gale's
Literary Index
HarpWeek
Harper's Weekly, scanned as images, together with a series of
controlled-vocabulary indexes
Connect to HarpWeek from any
AAS terminal
Heritage Quest Online
- Heritage Quest Online includes all of the images, and extensive
indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more
than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and
over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250
primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, and
probate
records.
Connect to Heritage Quest Online from
any AAS
terminal.
History Cooperative
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Includes full text of scholarly journals, including the Journal
of American History and the William and Mary
Quarterly.
Connect to History
Cooperative from any
AAS terminal
Literary Reference Center
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Literary Reference Center on EBSCOhost is a comprehensive database that
provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of
authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a full text database that combines
content from major respected reference works, mongraphs, classic books
and anthologies, literary journals as well as original content from
EBSCO Publishing.
Connect to Literary
Reference Center from any
AAS terminal
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Berkshire Eagle 2005-current
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Boston Globe 1980-current
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Boston Herald 1991-current
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BusinessWest (Chicopee) 1992-current
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North Adams Transcript 2005-current
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Patriot Ledger (Quincy) 1991-current
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Plymouth County Business Review 1991-current
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Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) 2005-current
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Sun, The (Lowell) 2004-current
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Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) 1989-current
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Gazette (Haverhill, Mass.) 12/31/92 - 8/9/97
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Standard Times (New Bedford) 1/4/92 - 8/19/97
NEBib: The on-line version of the Bibliographies of New England
History
- This database is an electronic version of Connecticut: A
Bibliography of Its History, volume 6 of the
Bibliographies
of
New England History (Hanover: University Press of New England,
1986). The Connecticut Bibliography contains approximately 10,000
citations to books and journal articles that discuss Connecticut history
and identity. These citations reference material published from the early
18th century until the early 1980s. They offer access to material relevant
to the study of the sciences and social sciences as well as to research in
history, women's studies, Native American studies, African-American
studies, fine arts, literature, religious history, local history, urban
studies, and geography.
Connect to
Connecticut Bibliography from any
terminal
- This database is an electronic version of volume 9 of the
Bibliographies
of
New England History (Hanover and London: University Press of New England,
1995). It contains 4,231 citations to books, dissertations, pamphlets, and
magazine and journal articles, most of which were published between 1989
and 1994, on the history of New England as a region or on any aspect of
New England state and local history.
NEBib is no longer available online
New England Historical and Genealogical Society databases
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vols. 1-150
WorldCat
- WorldCat is the OCLC database
See Readers' Services for access to FirstSearch
Sabin Americana 1500-1926
- Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books
Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time has been
heralded as a cornerstone in the study of the history of the Western Hemisphere.
Gale's Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 takes the works currently
captured from that bibliography and makes them available online.
Connect to Sabin
Americana 1500-1926
from any terminal
Wright American Fiction
- This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in
Lyle
Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently
2,340 texts included (2,040 unedited, 300 fully edited and encoded) by
1,128 authors.
Connect to Wright American
Fiction 1851-1875
from any terminal
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Online journals available at
AAS
AAS Digital Collections
AAS has produced the following digital collections:
The Archive of
Americana
in cooperation 
with Readex, a
division of NewsBank, Inc.
The Evans Text Creation
Partnership
in cooperation with the University of Michigan and Readex, a
division of NewsBank, Inc.
The Farber Gravestone
Collection in
cooperation 
with Cartography Associates, David Rumsey
 A New Nation
Votes
in cooperation with Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives
CD-ROMs are cataloged in the online
catalog
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