Selected Texts and Indexes from 19th Century America
Making of America |
Primary sources in American social history (broadly defined) from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Currently 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles have been digitized. One may search a specific text or across texts and view material as text, pdf, or image. Pages can only be printed individually. Reprints can be ordered from the University of Michigan . MoA is a collaborative effort of Cornell University and the University of Michigan . |
Nineteenth Century Masterfile |
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/pooles.html This resource is available to University faculty, staff, and students and onsite visitors. It builds onthe Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 (generally referred to simply as "Poole's") and is growing to include every relevant index produced in the 19th and early 20th century into a single, comprehensive index focusing particularly on cultural and intellectual life. Among the indexes included are: Cumulative Index to Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899), Harper's Magazine Index (1850-1892), Library Journal Index (1876-1897), New York Daily Tribune Index (1875-1906), New York Times Index (1863-1905), Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1906), E. C. Richardson's An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899, and B. P. Poore's Descriptive Catalogue of Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774 - March 4, 1881. In addition, databases of the bibliographic records for 19th century books and serials (published in the Anglo-American world and elsewhere) are included |
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Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) |
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/pci.html This resource is available to University faculty, staff, and students and onsite visitors. PCI indexes over 3,000 academic and popular periodicals published from as early as 1770 to the present in the humanities and social sciences. This is not a full-text database. |
The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective |
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/civil-war.html This resource is available to University faculty, staff, and students and onsite visitors. It contains the full text (not in facsimile) of major articles selected from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865 . The newspapers used enable a researcher to quickly acquire opposing perspectives on events. Descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies are included. Also included are articles which describe other than military concerns, such as travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions, sports and sporting, social events, etc. |
Secession Era Editorials Project |
http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/index.htm Transcriptions of editorials from both Southern and Northern newspapers. Editorials focus on the Nebraska Bill (1854), the assault on Charles Sumner (1856), the Dred Scott case (1857), and John Brown and Harper’s Ferry (1859). |
African American Newspapers: The 19 th Century |
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/aan.html This resource is available to University faculty, staff, and students and onsite visitors. It is comprised of the searchable transcribed text of several important African-American newspapers, including: Freedom’s Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, Frederick Douglass Paper, The Christian Recorder, and The National Era. |
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902 |
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ “At one point the Eagle actually became the nation’s most widely read afternoon newspaper. Unusual among major metropolitan daily newspapers of that time period, the Eagle chronicled national and international affairs as well as local news and daily life in Brooklyn . As a result The Brooklyn Daily Eagle provides a window into Brooklyn ’s past, as well as documentation of national and international events that shaped history.” The paper may be searched by keywords and by selected subjects. Facsimile images are retrieved. |
The New York Times |
The New York Times: Historical Index indexes articles published in the New York Times from 1851 to 1922, http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/nythist.html. The Times also indexes itself at The New York Times Article Archive, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html. Paper indexing of the Times is provided by indexes kept in Lockwood Library’s Index Area, call number AI 21.N44. Microfilm of the paper is available in Lockwood Library at MicFilm AN256 .N52. |
The American Periodical Series Online |
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/aps.html This resource is available to University faculty, staff, and students and onsite visitors. It represents a portion of the microfilmed American Periodical Series (APS), one of the most comprehensive resources for the study of 19th and late 18th century America including 1,100 periodical titles published between 1741 and 1900. It covers the entire range of human endeavor, from medicine to religion and includes both popular magazines and scholarly journals. |
HarpWeek |
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/harpweek.html This resource is available to University faculty, staff, and students and onsite visitors. Harper's Weekly was perhaps 19th century America 's most influential periodical. Heavily illustrated and featuring the work of many of the nation's most prominent journalists, illustrators, and literary figures, it offers an easily accessible window to all aspects of the nation's social, cultural, and political life. HarpWeek indexes the entire contents of Harper's Weekly (this component covers 1857-1865), from advertisements to illustrations, and is browseable in facsimile and searchable through assigned subject headings, literary genres, by the role or occupation of individuals, and by full-text keyword searching. |
American Memory |
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/amemory.html A diversity of primary sources documenting American history and culture are preserved in the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program's American Memory project. American Memory materials are primarily taken from the special collections of the Library of Congress. American Memory makes accessible documents (including books, manuscripts, and sheet music), motion picture and broadcasting materials, photographs and prints, sound recordings, and maps. Collections range from periodicals and government materials to well over 1,000 Civil War photographs, 25,000 photographs of turn of the century America , and panoramic maps of American cities. American Memory collections are noted throughout this list. |
