Resources A-Z
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Alternative Press Index
Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from hundreds of international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering 1991 to the present.
Amadeus
Amadeus is a database of comparable financial and business information on approximately 14 million public and private European companies by total assets covering 43 countries. Amadeus is published by Moody's Analytics and Bureau van Dijk.
Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society
Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society provides access to amateur publications that were written, edited, and published primarily by young people, aged 12-20, during the second half of the 19th century. This collection comprises of 3,000 titles and includes editorials, original short fiction, essays, poetry, and more.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1 (1749-1900)
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, offers images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900. The content was digitized from originals in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society.
American Business: Agricultural Newspapers
Scheduled for release in November 2015, American Business: Agricultural Newspapers will reportedly contain nearly 270 historical agricultural newspapers from 33 U.S. states, with dates ranging from 1788 through 1894. As of April 2016, the product contained approximately 12,000 issues from 31 titles (additional content forthcoming).
Titles highlighted by the publisher include: California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences (Sacramento, CA), Grand Valley Star (Grand Junction, CO), Florida Agriculturalist (Jacksonville, FL), Maine Farmer (Augusta, ME), Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture (Boston, MA), Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Advocate (St. Louis, MO), Miners...
American Business: Mercantile Newspapers
Scheduled for release in November 2015, American Business: Mercantile Newspapers will reportedly contain more than 500 historical mercantile newspapers from 45 U.S. states, with dates ranging from 1783 through 1900. As of April 2016, the product contained nearly 7,000 issues from 52 titles (additional content forthcoming).
Titles highlighted by the publisher include:Chicago Railway Review (Chicago, IL), Nome Gold Digger (Nome, Alaska), San Francisco Prices Current (San Francisco, CA), St. Louis Weekly Market Reporter (St. Louis, MO), New Orleans Commercial Bulletin (New Orleans, LA), Cincinnati Price Current (Cincinnati, OH), Miner’s Journal & Pottsville General Advertiser (...
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 provides access to the records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), covering the years from before the ACLU’s official founding in 1920 through the 20th century.
This digital collection contains more than 2 million pages held at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University, and it is available as a two part collection:
American Civil Liberties Union Papers (ACLU) I, 1912-1990 American Civil Liberties Union Papers (ACLU) II, 1912-1990
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. Collection includes 200 letters written by Amos Wood, his wife Clara, and their three-year-old son, Freddie, illustrating what life was like for a Massachusetts family separated by the war.
American Consumer Culture
Provides access to Ernest Dicther's collection of over 2,000 market research reports held at the Hagley Library.
American FactFinder
American FactFinder provides open and free access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas on population, income, housing characteristics, etc. The data included comes from several censuses and surveys and is provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
American Gazettes: Newspapers of Record
Scheduled for release in November 2015, American Gazettes: Newspapers of Record will reportedly contain more than 100 historical U.S. city gazettes ("papers of record" publishing official information) from 35 U.S. states, with dates ranging from 1796 through 1884. As of April 2016, the product contained approximately 20,000 issues from 34 titles (additional content forthcoming).
Titles highlighted by the publisher include: Daily Globe (Washington, DC), Polynesian (Honolulu, HI), Chicago Daily Republican (Chicago, IL), Bangor Courier (Bangor, ME), Natchez Daily Courier (Natchez, MS), Daily Argus (Fargo, ND), Daily Telegraph (Jersey City, NJ), Morning Oregonian (Portland,...
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Series 1-6
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Series 1-6 provides access to periodicals that highlight that history of the Colonial Americans in the twentieth century. The periodicals were predominantly published in the U.S., Canada, and by Americans living abroad
American Indian Histories and Cultures
American Indian Histories and Cultures, scheduled for release in fall 2013, will present material from the Newberry Library’s Edward E. Ayer Collection, an extensive archival collection on American Indian history. The content ranges from early contacts with European settlers through the expanded occupation of the American west, up through the Indian political movements of the mid-20th century. The collection covers a wide geographic area with a primary focus on North America and Mexico. This digital resource will complement The American West, an earlier digital collection from Adam Matthew compiled from the Newberry Library’s Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana.
American National Election Studies Data Center
The American National Election Studies Data Center provides access to data aggregated through the ANES national surveying on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From the New-York Historical Society
American Pamphlets, Series 1, offers a collection of pamphlets ancipated ultimately to total more than 25,000 short works printed in every region of the United States between 1820 and 1922. Launched in 2013 with completion expected in 2016, this collection joins American Broadsides and Ephemera to form Readex's America's Historical Imprints platform.
American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL)
American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL) is a digital collection of 375 popular and trade journals from Center for Research Library collections, digitized in collaboration with ProQuest.
American Politics: Campaign Newspapers
Scheduled for release in November 2015, American Politics: Campaign Newspapers will reportedly contain more than 300 historical political campaign newspapers from 30 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, with dates ranging from 1803 through 1876. As of April 2016, the product contained approximately 7,700 issues from 68 titles (many of those being short-run publications).
Titles highlighted by the publisher include: The Log Cabin (New York, NY),The Old Soldier (Springfield, IL), National Campaign Banner (Middletown, NY), The Corrector (New York, NY), Delaware Democrat & Easton Gazette (Easton, PA), United States Telegraph Extra (Washington, DC), Star of the West (Apalachicola,...
American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1940-1996
American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1940-1996 provides access to CIA monitored, recorded and translated news from newspapers, magazines, books, government statements and radio and television broadcasts that covered American racial issues and race relations in the United States. It includes commentaries on African-American history, the Civil Rights movement, Hispanic-American history, and Asian-American history.
Content for this collection is primarily sourced from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports and the...
American Studies: the colonisation of North America and the American revolution
American Studies: the colonisation of North America and the American revolution is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP). This series includes the following collections:
America in records from colonial missionaries, 1635-1928 American prisoners of war, 1812-1815 American records in...
American slave trade records and other papers of the Tarleton family, 1678-1838
American slave trade records and other papers of the Tarleton family, 1678-1838 provides access to 655 pages of American material from the Tarleton papers.
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