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Full-text digital images of American newspapers published from 1690-1922.

Notes:   America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, 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 collection currently includes the following:

Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 Based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies, this digital edition includes over 650 titles and more than one million pages.

Series II of Early American Newspapers, 1758-1900, complements Series I and Series III by offering fully searchable digital facsimiles of several hundred thousand issues from more than 200 significant 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, totaling more than one million pages. Like other Early American Newspapers series, it is based primarily on the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).

Early American Newspapers, Series III, 1829-1922 With over 125 additional 19th- and 20th-century newspapers totaling more than one million pages, Series III focuses on the period between 1861 to 1900, including Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and beyond.

Series IV, V & VI of Early American Newspapers offers several hundred thousand fully searchable issues from more than 160 significant 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present regions of the United States.

Availability:    Branch Libraries; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Subjects:    American Studies; Area and Cultural Studies; Arts & Humanities; Genealogy; History; History & Social Sciences; Newspapers; Reference

Resource Types:    Full-text databases; Image databases; Newspapers and Magazines

Dates of Coverage:  1690 - 1922

Update Frequency:  Quarterly

Print Equivalent:  This database contains titles found in the microfilm collection Early American Newspapers, which is available under call number *ZAN-7473 in the Microforms Division, Room 100. Check CATNYP for location details.

Output Type:  Download,Print,Email

Format:  Web

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Digital Americana [Check Scheduled Dates]
Did you know that almost all books printed in America from 1639 to 1819 are now available in digital format? Many American newspapers and magazines from this period are also available, and searchable, as electronic facsimiles. Scholars and other researchers can now consult previously difficult-to-obtain and little-studied historical documents at workstations throughout the Library. Learn how to search and explore newly developed resources such as Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans (1639–1800) and Series II, Shaw and Shoemaker (1801–1819); Early American Newspapers (1690–1876); and the American Periodical Series Online (1740–1900), which together provide a world of authoritative documentation for the study of all aspects of early American culture.

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Primary sources provide a researcher with firsthand evidence of historical events from the perspective of someone who was there. This class will provide an overview of how to proceed through the research process using primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. We will learn how to locate primary sources both here at NYPL and on the web.