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American Antiquarian Society [AAS] Historical Periodicals Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Access to newspapers, bulletins, reports, and other periodicals from the United States, providing coverage from 1691-1877.
British and Irish Womens Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning over 300 years.
The Cecil Papers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
An archive of approximately 30,000 sixteenth and seventeenth-century manuscripts, consisting principally of the correspondence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son Robert, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612). These two men dominated the administration of government during the reign of Elizabeth I and the first eight years under her successor.
Colonial State Papers: 1574 - 1757 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including coverage of the earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the trade in enslaved persons, and English conflicts with the Spanish and French.
Early English Books Online [EEBO] (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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.
Indigenous Peoples: North America This link opens in a new window
Indigenous Peoples: North America sources collections from across Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth into the twentieth century. Including diverse manuscripts; book collections; newspapers from various tribe and Indian-related organizations; materials such as Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages all enable students' examination of important primary source materials.
North American Womens Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Over 50 high definition, surround-sound recordings of Shakespeare's plays.
Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Scholar's Edition (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors.

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