Coverage: 1690-1980

Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages of full text, searchable facsimile images. Collections include Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) and Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).

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Searches the full text of twelve historical newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, The Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian and The Observer, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, The New York Times, Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

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The largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The resource includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

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Coverage: 1785-2019

Complete searchable digital archive of The Times (London), except for the Sunday edition. Includes all articles, advertisements, illustrations, and photos. 

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Provides online access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and Gale Virtual Reference titles in literature. Resources can be cross-searched simultaneously. Content includes includes biographies, critical essays, reviews, full-text articles, and audio files.

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Access encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This platform allows users to search multiple resources at one time. The reference library includes titles such as Dictionary of American History, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, and many others.

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This site integrates the full text of Shakespeare's plays and poems with the entire glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

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Coverage: 1681-1939

Provides access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Formats include magisterial quarterlies, scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines. 

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Browse and search hundreds of articles about the music of every continent. This resource contains overviews of world regions with surveys of musical heritage, traditions, themes, and descriptions of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. 

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Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. This resource also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University, as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE).

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Coverage: 1846-2005

Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, education, psychology and health, politics, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies' Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman's Day (1937 to 2005), and Women's International Network News (1975 to 2003). 

Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them.

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Coverage: 18th-20th centuries

A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.

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Coverage: 1675-1950

This collection provides full text access to the personal writings of more than 1,300 North American women from all classes and walks of life. All age groups, all life stages, many ethnicities, and many geographical regions are represented, from colonial times to 1950. Resources include diaries and letters, as well as biographies.

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This database allows for searchability across all available Gale digital archives from a single interface. Contains full text of primary sources in the following collections: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, British Library Newspapers, The Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Indigenous Peoples: North America, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana, The Times (London) Digital Archive, and U.S. Declassified Documents Online.