Digital Collections

resource logo Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

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Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920 presents a broad history of crime in the long 19th century derived from French, German, Spanish, Australian, British and U.S. sources. The collection includes trial transcripts, court proceedings, police and forensic documents, photographs, true crime literature and detective novels, and newspaper accounts.

Children's Literature and Childhood

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. 

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resource logo Archives Unbound

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

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resource logo American Historical Periodicals

Gale’s American Historical Periodicals, Series 6 , Series 7, and Series 8 provide all newly digitized material, bringing the previously published Series 1-5 more firmly into the 20th century, with titles running up to 1925. Series 6, 7, and 8  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.

resource logo American Fiction, 1774-1920

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resource logo Amateur Newspapers from AAS

Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society consists of tens of thousands of issues from over 3,300 papers, from every state except Alaska and Hawaii, thus making the Society’s holdings among the largest and most extensive in the United States.

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resource logo World Newspaper Archive

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Representing the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, the World Newspaper Archive will advance research and offer opportunities for fresh insight across wide-ranging academic disciplines. 

resource logo U.S. Congressional Serial Set

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Search or browse the reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

resource logo Senate Executive Journals, 1789-1980

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Readex AllSearch

Readex AllSearch allows users to search seamlessly across all available Readex digital collections and document types, including historical imprints, newspapers, and government documents. 

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The following databases, all available at AAS via Readex AllSearch, may also be searched individually:

America's Historical Imprints