Digital Collections
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Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange | This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices. |
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Women's Studies Archive | |
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive | |
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Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 | Drawn from Joseph Sabin's famed nineteenth century bibliography Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. This digital collection offers a perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. |
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers | With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. |
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online | Selections have been culled from the vast map repositories of the British Library and the National Archives at Kew. In addition to these large map collections, maps representing the Americas, and in particular America's westward expansion, have been provided by the American Antiquarian Society. Maps depicting Canada and the polar regions have been generously provided by the University of Alberta. |
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Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature | The Maps and Travel Literature archive includes a myriad of maps representing the long nineteenth century. |
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Gale Primary Sources | Gale Primary Sources allows users to search seamlessly across all available Gale digital collections. The following databases, all available at AAS via Gale Primary Sources, may also be searched individually: |
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Gale Databases | Browse all Gale research products available at the American Antiquarian Society reading room. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online | 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. |