Research Guides: Engl 477NS/5477NS: Nineteenth-Century Studies: Home

Key sources

Use the databases below to locate scholarly articles and book chapters on your subject:

America: History and Life with Full Text
Articles and book chapters providing historical and cultural coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Publication Coverage: 1895 to the present.
JSTOR
Full articles from major research journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Coverage of most journals starts from the beginning and excludes the most recent three to five years.
Academic Search Complete
Full articles, citations, summaries and more from academic journals covering most subjects.
Full-text varies from 2000-present

Look to the Library of Congress for primary sources documenting American history.

Hathi Trust
Hathi Trust is a digital preservation repository with thousands of out-of-copyright items accessible to everyone. Copyrighted items are accessible to supplying partners only.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Full article access to major, rural, and specialty news sources.
American Periodicals Series (Collection I)
Texts of American magazines and journals that originated between 1740 and 1900.
Black Studies Center
Covers historical and current information on African-American life, the African Diaspora and Africa itself.
Includes essays, historical articles from the Chicago Defender, and information from the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience.
Early American Newspapers
Full text digital articles from American newspapers, including the Kansas City Star, 1690-1922.
Coverage varies from paper to paper.
C19: Nineteenth Century Index
Materials published in the U.S. and England during the 19th century.
Making of the Modern World
Focuses on worldwide economic literature, books, political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclamations, and ephemera.
1450 to 1850.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Provides a quick way to search the most popular general-interest magazines from 1890-1982 in the United States.

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
Full documents reflecting U. S. legal history.
1620 - 1979
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
Documents from major British and U.S. trials.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Search briefs, transcripts, dockets and memoranda from all parties in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Century of Lawmaking For a Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1772-1875
Records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.

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