Index and abstracts of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Humanities International Complete provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of 1,900 journals and books in the humanities. The database includes citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
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This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2013.
AAS Historical Periodicals include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals not available from any other source and provide rich content detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
Includes the following databases that can be searched individually:
Agriculture Focus
Agricultural Periodicals from the Northeastern US, 1789-1879
Agricultural Periodicals from the Southern, Midwestern, and Western US, 1800-1878
Commercial Periodicals from the Southern US, 1811-1877
Applied Science & Technology Focus
Alternative Medicine and Health Periodicals, 1810-1877
American Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry Periodicals, 1786-1877
Scientific Periodicals, 1771-1901
Art Focus
American Literary Periodicals, 1782-1834
American Literary Periodicals, 1835-1858
American Literary Periodicals, 1859-1891
Cultural Periodicals from the Southern US, 1797-1877
Drama, Humor, and Fine Arts Periodicals, 1764-1877
Fireside Companions and Family Literature Periodicals, 1805-1877
Literary Periodicals of New England, 1789-1878
Story Papers, Dimes and Dollar Periodicals, 1828-1877
Business Focus
Advertising Periodicals, 1815-1888
Business and General Education Periodicals, 1800-1885
Business, Industrial and Professional Periodicals, 1774-1858
Business, Industrial and Professional Periodicals, 1859-1870
Business, Industrial and Professional Periodicals, 1871-1901
Education Focus
Business and General Education Periodicals, 1800-1885
College and Student Periodicals, 1806-1877
Popular Educational Periodicals, 1758-1889
History Focus
American Civil War Periodicals, 1855-1868
American Political and Social Movements Periodicals, 1815-1884
American Political Periodicals, 1715-1891
Canadian Periodicals, 1790-1877
Current Events and History Periodicals, 1691-1912
Foreign Language Periodicals in America, 1684-1904
Hobbies, Socialization, and Sport Periodicals, 1775-1889
Masons, Odd-Fellows and Other Societal Periodicals, 1794-1877
Military and Law Enforcement Periodicals, 1691-1877
Periodicals from Around the World, 1691-1880
Periodicals of the American West, 1779-1881
Periodicals of the British Empire and Its Colonies, 1702-1879
Slavery and Abolition, 1789-1887
Music Focus
Musical Periodicals, 1781-1879
Religion Focus
Alternative Faith and Philosophy Periodicals, 1789-1878
Baptists, Quakers, and Independent Church Periodicals, 1797-1881
Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, and Episcopal Periodicals, 1797-1904
Congregational, Presbyterian, and Reformed Church Periodicals, 1803-1902
Emerging American Religions, 1821-1895
General Interest Christian Periodicals, 1743-1889
Missionary and Charity Periodicals, 1793-1902
Religious Periodicals for Women, Children, and Families, 1804-1878
Religious Periodicals from the Southern US, 1801-1904
Sunday School Periodicals, 1818-1885
Temperance Periodicals in America, 1826-1877
Theology and Biblical Studies Periodicals, 1760-1877
Women's Studies Focus
Women’s Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844
Women’s Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1845-1865
Women’s Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1866-1891
In collaboration with the John Carter Brown Library, EBSCO Information Services created a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. The database contains more than 32,000 records, and covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples in texts published in multiple languages, including, but not limited to, German, French, Spanish, Polish and Scandinavian.