Databases

The Maps and Travel Literature archive includes a myriad of maps representing the long nineteenth century.

Access the following nine Gale databases in one interface.

Browse all Gale research products available at the American Antiquarian Society reading room.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages, making ECCO the premier and irreplaceable resource for eighteenth-century research. Users of ECCO Part I and Part II can full-text search the collection via an intuitive user interface. In addition, MARC record/metadata enhancements, a research guide section for undergraduates with contextual essays and chronology, an image gallery, and a key documents section facilitate discovery and study.

Children's Literature and Childhood provides a wide range of primary sources related to the experience of childhood in the long nineteenth century. Included in the archive are books and periodicals for children, primers and other material related to education, pamphlets produced by child welfare groups, documents and photos related to children and crime, newspapers produced by youths, and much more.

Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.

Gale’s American Historical Periodicals, Series 6 and 7 provides all newly digitized material, bringing the previously published Series 1-5 more firmly into the 20th century, with titles running up to 1923. Series 6 and series 7 combine to contain over 500 titles, offering diverse primary source material for studying the thought, culture and life of the United States through contemporary eyes. These series include unusual and short-lived magazines as well as better-known titles with long runs.