HIST 430 Pirates, Slaves, and Revolutionaries: Research in the Atlantic World

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Subject Areas: Black Studies, English

African-American Poetry 1760-1900, a collection within American and English Literature, includes the full text of almost 3000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. African-American Poetry is a resource for literary scholars and for researchers in black studies, linguistics, women's studies, black literary heritage, and comparative studies.

The poetry explores a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice, and slavery. The variety of poem types is equally broad. The database includes allegories, broadsides, children's poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic poems, and sonnets.

The poets are among those included in the William French et al. bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. The full-text of the poems is included and is fully searchable.

Format: Full Text Books
Dates of Coverage: 1760-1900
Database Producer: BiblioLabs, provided by OhioLINK

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Subject Areas: History

The American Antiquarian Society, Historical Periodicals represents two centuries of print culture, including early colonial imprints, titles published during the American Revolution, titles that cover the growth of America as a young nation, and titles published during the Civil War.

This portal allows researchers to search through the first five collections available to the Denison community through one interface.

Please note, Gale also offers access to this database (Gale access includes series 1-6).

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1691-1877
Update Schedule: Archive
Database Producer: EBSCO

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Subject: American History

Full text database containing books, maps, artwork and other primary source material.

This online collection is divided into two modules:
- Module I: Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
- Module II: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945

Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1493-1945
Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)

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Subject Areas: U.S. History

ProQuest's Civil War Era illuminates the cultural, regional, ethical, and economic viewpoints from the American Civil War period (1840-1865).

Available together digitally for the first time, eight regionally balanced cover-to-cover newspapers and nearly 2,000 pamphlets offer comprehensive coverage of a vast range of Civil War Era research topics.

Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1840-1865
Update Schedule: Completed Archive
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey

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Subject Areas: U. S. History

These first-person accounts, compiled in the postwar period and early 20th Century period, chronicle the highs and lows of army life from 1861 through 1865.

The reasons why individuals volunteered, leaving home and entering camp, initially going to the front, the clash of arms, the drudgery of camp life, the boredom of garrison duty, and the anguish of imprisonment are expounded in these accounts.

Soldiers attitudes are expressed with a fullness and attitudes toward army life, toward officers and fellow soldiers, toward the enemy, and toward the political questions of the war are recorded.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1861-1865
Update Schedule: Completed Archive
Database Producer: Gale / Cengage

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Subject Areas: U.S. History, Sociology & Anthropology

Early Encounters in North America (EENA) contains approximately 1400 authors and 100,000 pages of material. It includes letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1600-Present
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press

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Subject Areas: English, History

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700, from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Format: Archival Resources, Full Text Books
Dates of Coverage: 1473-1700.
Database Producer: ProQuest

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Subject Areas: History

Empire Online is an educational collection of original documents, sourced from libraries and archives around the world and ideally suited to the teaching and study of empire studies. The wealth of documents spans five centuries and includes manuscripts, rare printed materials, letterbooks, periodicals, diaries, photographs and more.

Supplementing the primary sources are a wealth of secondary resources. Students and researchers will benefit from exploring the plethora of essays written by leading academics in the field, interactive maps, chronology and fascinating image gallery.

The images are from about ten different libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library, including the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library; the University of Birmingham Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Public Record Office and the State Records, New South Wales, Australia.

Format: Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1492-21st century
Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)

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Subject Areas: History

European views of the Americas, 1493-1750 is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library.
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.

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Subject Areas: History, Religion

The records of the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the Presbyterian Church provide valuable information on social conditions in developing nations and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Among the missions responsibilities was the establishment of indigenous churches, educational facilities, hospitals, orphanages, and seminaries.

The majority of the material in this collection consists of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board headquarters. Other primary sources include diary accounts, sermon manuscripts, receipts of sale, and field accounts.

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Subject Areas: History, Women's Studies

Everyday Life & Women in America, 1800-1920 provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history. Materials are gathered from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library.

This database is comprised of thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

Format: Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1800-1920
Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)

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Subject Areas: Women's Studies, History

In the late 1800's, Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, the Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and 15 languages.


The Gerritsen curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time.


The broad scope of the collection allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. In many cases, it also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms.


The Gerritsen Collection consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.



Format: Full Text Books
Dates of Coverage: 1543-1945
Database Producer: ProQuest

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Subject Areas: History, economics

Global commodities contains material associated with the economic, social and political history of commodities. The resource provides access to a wide range of rare printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and objects associated with the history of 15 commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, wine and spirits. The material also covers other commodities including beef, cheese, coal, corn, fish, fruits, machinery, rice, silk and wool.

The commodities included in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years, helping transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices.

Format: Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1500-present
Database Producer: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)

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Subject Areas: History, Political Science, Women's Studies, Black Studies

ProQuest History Vault is an archival resource in progress. When complete, this database will contain 25+ modules of archival content covering many areas, including African-American studies, womens studies, history, political science, and more. This resource includes letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more.

Denison currently has access to the following modules:
- Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, Organizational Records, & Personal Papers
- NAACP: Major Campaigns, Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, & National Staff Files
- Slavery and the Law (1775-1867)
- Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy (1960-1975)
- World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees (1920-1983)
Format: Full Text
Database Producer: ProQuest

Off Campus Access: This resource is freely available to anyone.

Alternate URL: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/ (Cornell)
- the Making of America is a joint project between the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Both institutions have online portals to this content.

Subject Areas: U.S. History

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection contains books and journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Format: Full Text Books, Full Text Journals
Database Producer: University of Michigan and Cornell University with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Subject Areas: Economics, Western History, Western Economy, Western Corporations

The Making of the Modern World is an extraordinary series which covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation.

Focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1450-1914
Database Producer: Gale

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Subject Areas: History, International Studies

"Nineteenth Century Collections Online" is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. When completed, this collection will be comprised of numerous sub-collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types -- monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more -- in one cross-searchable interface.

Currently includes 12 collections:
- Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
- British Politics and Society
- British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
- Children's Literature and Childhood
- Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
- European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
- Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
- Photography: The World through the Lens
- Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform
- Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
- Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II
- Women: Transnational Networks

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1769-1925
Database Producer: Gale

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Subject Areas: History, U.S. History, Women's Studies, People

North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.

The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Format: Archival Resources
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press.

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Subject Areas: U.S. History, History

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.

Format: Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1500-1926
Database Producer: Gale Publishing.

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Subject Areas: History, U.S. History, Black Studies

Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice, 1490-2007 documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Topics covered include the African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. The collection also includes case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.

Format: Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1490-2007
Database Producer: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)

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Subject Areas: History, U.S. History, Black Studies

Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm.

This collection is made up of three sections:
- part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition
- part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
- part III: The Institution of Slavery.
- part IV: Emancipation

Format: Archival Materials
Database Producer: Gale Cengage

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Subject: History, Economics

The Virginia Company Archives covers the founding and economic development of Virginia. This database documents developments in Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London (1606-1624), the interests of the Ferrar family, trade between Britain and America, the ethnic and gender composition of Virginia, and both tensions and relations among colonists and Native Americans.

Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1600-1775
Database Producer: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)

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Subject Areas: Women's Studies, History

The earliest texts in this comprehensive collection on witchcraft date from the 15th century and the latest are from the early 20th century. The majority of the material concerns the 16th to 18th centuries, the so-called "classic period." In addition to these classic texts, the collection includes anti-persecution writings, works by penologists, legal and church documents, exposs of persecutions, and philosophical writings and transcripts of trials and exorcisms.

Includes 263,207 images from the collections of Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, and others.

Format: Full Text
Date range: 1500-1930
Database Producer: Archives Unbound, Gale.

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Subject Areas: Women's Studies, U.S. History

When completed, this database will contain published and manuscript primary sources focusing on women's international activism since the mid-nineteenth century. The archive includes proceedings of women's international conferences, books, pamphlets, articles from newspapers and journals, as well as correspondence, diary entries, and memoirs. It is also rich in online publications of contemporary Non-Governmental Organizations.

Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1840-present
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press.

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Subject Areas: Women's Studies, U.S. History

This database is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the site seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.

Women and Social Movements contains the following resources:

* Over 70 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 2400 documents, more than 900 images, and over 800 links to other websites. They demonstrate that historical analysis is an interpretive process based on documents. Viewers of the site are encouraged to participate in that interpretive process. We expect to add twelve new document projects annually. Women and Social Movements is also now accepting submissions of document projects for consideration for online publication. See below for more information.
* More than 30,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements. These materials have been selected by the Editors for their relevance to the focus of the website. Plans are to add 5,000 additional pages of documents annually.
* A dictionary of social movements and organizations.
* A chronology of U.S. Women's History.
* Teaching Tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the website's document projects.

Format: Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1600-2000
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press.

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Subject Areas: U.S. History

America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1998, including titles from all 50 states.

Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

This online archive includes:
- Early American Newspapers, Series 1-12
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
- Ethnic American Newspapers, 1799-1971
- Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

Format: Full Text, Newspapers
Dates of Coverage: 1690-1998
Database Producer: Readex
Collection: Part of the "Archive of Americana"

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Subject Areas: U.S. History, General

American Periodicals, 1740-1940, contains page images of more than 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers.

These resources illuminate the development of American culture, politics, and society across some 150 years. Articles can be searched by author, source, and words in the complete text.

Denison patrons have access to the following collections within this resource:

- American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
- American Periodicals Series

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1740-1940
Update Schedule: Quarterly
Database Producer: Proquest

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Subject Areas: History

This collection is a mixture of issues and papers from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama ranging from 1861-1865.

These newspapers "recorded the real and true history of public opinion during the war. In their columns is to be found the only really correct and indicative map of busy life, its fluctuations and its vast concerns in the South, during her days of darkness and of trial."

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1861-1865
Update Schedule: Completed Archive
Database Producer: Gale / Cengage

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Subject Areas: History, English

Eighteenth Century Journals is a portal to newspapers and periodicals, c1685-1835, offering integrated access to the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Eighteenth Century Journals I), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University of Texas (Eighteenth Century Journals II) the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and the Cambridge University Library (Eighteenth Century Journals III), Chetham's Library at Manchester and the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds (Eighteenth Century Journals IV), and the Birmingham Central Library, British Library and Liverpool John Moores University Library (Eighteenth Century Journals V). It brings together rare journals printed between 1685 and 1835, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, the French Revolution, reviews of literature, the theater, and fashion throughout Europe, the origins and rise of Romanticism, political debates, gender, religion, influence of the press, and coffee house gossip and discussion.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1685-1835
Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)

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Subject Areas: U.S. History

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines contains full-text articles from periodicals, including campaign newspapers, published from 1860 to 1865. Many of the publications are rare and hard to find, and include source materials from museum, library, and private collections, including the American Antiquarian Society. The database can be searched by date or topic, or one can browse each individual publication. The database also contains a sample selection of Union and Confederate letters from the larger database, American Civil War: Letters & Diaries. Document types include advertisement, article series, biographical sketch/obituary, cartoon, editorial, fiction, government announcement, humor / satirical commentary, illustration, map, news story/item, panoramic view, poetry, portrait, publisher's notice, and travel narrative

Format: Full Text Journal Articles, Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1860-1865
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press

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Subject Areas: History, Political Science, International Studies

The Illustrated London News Historical Archive gives online access to the entire run of the ILN from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1842-2003
Database Producer: Gale

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Subject Areas: Political Science, Social History, Women's Studies

Historical womens periodicals provide an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for womens rightswoman suffrage, fair pay, better working conditions, for examplegrew in the United States and England. Some of the titles in this collection were conceived and published by men, for women; others, conceived and published by male editors with strong input from female assistant editors or managers; others were conceived and published by women, for women. The strongest suffrage and anti-suffrage writing was done by women for womens periodicals. Thus a variety of viewpoints are here presented for study.

Format: Full Text
Date range: 1786-1933
Database Producer: Archives Unbound, Gale

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Subject Areas: Mass Media, U.S. History

Full page images of the New York Times newspaper, dating from 1851 to three years ago.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1851-three years ago (moving wall)
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.

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Subject Areas: U.S. History

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

Advanced searching capabilities will enable researchers 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.

Format: Full Text Journals, Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1800-1900
Update Schedule: Completed Archive
Database Producer: Gale / Cengage

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Subject: U.S. History

E. W. Scripps Papers, 1868-1926 is a growing collection of letters and photos from the Scripps Manuscript Collection at Ohio University. Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) was a businessman and journalist associated with the founding of the Scripps Howard chain of newspapers and the United Press International independent news gathering company.

Format: Archival Resources
Database Producer: Ohio University Library Archives and Special Collections.

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Subject Areas: History

The most comprehensive collection of early English newspapers, including 1 million full text images from newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets, proclamations. Titles are included from London, British Isles, and colonies.

Format: Archival Materials, Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1604-1804
Database Producer: Gale Publishing.

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Subject Areas: History

The complete digital edition of The Sunday Times (London).

Search using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.

The entire Sunday newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

For more coverage, see also "The Times (London) Digital Archives, 1785-2010."

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1822-2016
Database Producer: Archives Unbound, Gale

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Subjects: History, Political Science

This online archives provides coverage of the first 1d morning newspaper in London, the Telegraph. This resource includes over 1 million pages of online content as well as the Sunday edition of the paper.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1855 to 2016
Database Distributor: Gale Cengage

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Subject Areas: Mass Media, History, Political Science, Theatre

The complete digital edition of The Times (London), 1785 to 2019.

Search using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.

The entire weekday newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

For more coverage, see also the "Sunday Times (London), 1822-2016."

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1785 - 2019
Database Producer: Gale

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Subject Areas: U.S. History

American State Papers constitute rich primary source material on many aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838. A retrospective republication of approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely Congressional but also containing Executive Department materials, the American State Paper volumes, issued from 1832-1861, were published in ten classes in a total of 38 folio volumes.

The classes into which the publications were assembled and printed and the number of volumes they occupy are: I: Foreign Relations in six volumes; II: Indian Affairs in two volumes; III: Finance in five volumes; IV: Commerce and Navigation in two volumes; V: Military Affairs in seven volumes; VI: Naval Affairs in four volumes; VII: Post Office Department in one volume; VIII: Public Lands in eight volumes; IX: Claims in one volume; and X: Miscellaneous in two volumes.

Unlike the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the publications in the American State Papers are not divided into reports and documents and do not include House and Senate journals. Approximately two-thirds of the publications cover the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817), whereas the remaining third chronologically overlap with the Serial Set from 1817-1838.

Format: Full Text Books
Dates of Coverage: 1789-1838
Database Producer: Readex
Collection: Part of the "Archive of Americana"

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Subjects: History, Political Science

State Papers Online is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Monarch. The papers feature the office archives and correspondence of the secretaries of state serving the Monarch as facsimile manuscript documents accessed directly or via the fully searchable Calendar entries.

This collection contains information on every facet of English government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions and intelligence gathering as well as Britain's international relations and foreign policy.

Denison has access to the following collections:

- Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic (State Papers Online, 1509-1603)

- Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council (State Papers Online 1509-1603)

- Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic (State Papers Online, 1509-1714)

- Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council (State Papers Online, 1509-1714)

- The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle (State Papers Online
- Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council (State Papers Online, 18th Century)

- Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 2: State Papers Foreign, Low Countries and Germany (State Papers Online, 18th Century)

- Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 3: State Papers Foreign, Part II, Western Europe (State Papers Online, 18th Century)

Format: Full Text Archival Materials
Dates of Coverage: 1509-1714
Update Schedule: Static Database
Database Distributor: Gale / Cengage

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Subjects: History, Political Science

The U.K. Parliamentary Papers, also called the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, covers the historical record of Britain, its former colonies and the wider world.

This collection includes detailed primary sources and contributes to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the political environment.

The Denison community has access to the 18th, 19th and 20th Century Collections, which cover 1660 - 2004.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1688 - 2004
Database Producer: ProQuest

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Subject Areas: U.S. History, Law, Political Science

U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980 and 1981-1994 contains full text of reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial Set will consist of approximately 369,000 publications published in 14,500 volumes and over 11 million pages.

Format: Full Text, Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: 1817-1994
Database Producer: Readex
Collection: Part of the "Archive of Americana"

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Subject Areas: History, Black Studies

Slavery and the law, part of History Vault, contains the English cases, naturally placed in the first volume of the series, and those heard and determined in the highest courts of Virginia, oldest of the colonies, of West Virginia, and of Kentucky, whose jurisprudence for obvious historical reasons followed somewhat closely that of Virginia. Other states, Southern, Northern, Western, and the few Canadian and Jamaican cases, will occupy the subsequent volumes, the Carolinas receiving, probably, the first place in the second volume.

That the English cases are continued beyond 1783, to the same date of 1875 as the American cases, will be understood to be due in part to the close connection of some of them with the determinations in earlier cases like that of Somerset, and in part to their relation to the later slave trade to America.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 18th century
Database Producer: ProQuest