Research Tools
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Printers' File Online | Since Isaiah Thomas’s research for his ambitious The History of Printing in America (1810), the Society has held the largest set of data on the early printing trade in what is now the United States. Starting in 1927, Avis Clarke, AAS’s first trained cataloger, compiled a card catalog that came to be known as the Printers’ File during her 43 year tenure here. For many decades, these twenty-five drawers of cards could only be accessed in our reading room, a resource that became known as the Printers’ File. |
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Digital Transgender Archive | DTA virtually merges disparate archival collections, digital materials, and independent projects with a single search engine. |
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Just Teach One: Early African American Print | Scholarly transcriptions of African American literature, with basic editing and apparatus. |
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Just Teach One | Just Teach One provides scholarly transcriptions of early texts, with basic editing and apparatus. |
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Cross Family Collection Box List | The inventory listed in this site consists of 29 boxes and 8 oversized folders of material dating from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries with the bulk of the collection falling between 1870 and 1890. |
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A New Nation Votes | A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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Black Self-Publishing | Black Self-Publishing is an ongoing collaborative research project. It is based on a working list of books that are known to have been or may have been self-published by people of African descent who resided in North America and either were born before 1851 or first published before 1877. Your help, ideas, corrections, insight, and comments are essential to this work of community scholarship. |
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GIGI: The AAS Digital Image Archive | GIGI: The AAS Digital Image Archive is a storage and retrieval system for the Society's digitally-created collections and surrogates. It includes over 233,000 image files of historic material from all of the Society’s collections. |
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Clarence: Newspapers and Periodicals of the American Antiquarian Society | Clarence provides detailed information on the newspaper holdings in the newspapers and periodicals collections of the American Antiquarian Society. At this time Clarence contains holdings information for roughly 75% of the newspaper issues in the collection. Inputting the holdings data for the entire collection is ongoing. Clarence does not provide digital images of the newspapers. |
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The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865 | The history of America has always been intimately entwined with the history of communications media—and that has always been changing. This exhibition broadly explores the interconnectedness of American news media, in all its formats, with changes in technology, business, politics, society, and community from 1730 to 1865. |