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America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
Coverage Dates: 1690 - 1922
Format: Online
Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images.

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American Broadsides and Ephemera I
Coverage Dates: 1760 - 1900
Format: Online
Offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

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American Periodicals Series Online
Coverage Dates: 1740 - 1900
Format: Online
"...Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century."

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American State Papers 1789-1837
Coverage Dates: 1789 - 1837
Format: Online
"The American State Papers constitute rich primary source material on many aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838. A retrospective republication of approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely Congressional but also containing Executive Department materials...Now available: 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session, 1789-1838, American State Papers Vols. 01-038."

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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Coverage Dates: 1980 - Present
Format: Online
includes list of cited references

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Boston Globe Archive (1872-1923)
Coverage Dates: 1872 - 1923
Format: Online
Full-text and full-image articles. Complete cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF

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British Periodicals
Coverage Dates: 1680s - 1930s
Format: Online
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.

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CQ Almanac
Coverage Dates: 1945 - Present
Format: Online
Coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945- . Original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session. Includes all of the content from the print version of the Almanac. Updated annually. For more recent coverage, see CQ Weekly (http://library.bowdoin.edu/erl/ip/cqweb.cgi)

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Christian Science Monitor Archive (1908 - 1994)
Coverage Dates: 1908 - 1994
Format: Online
Contains full text of the Christian Science Monitor from 1908 - 1991. For current CSM articles see Proquest Newspapers.

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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Coverage Dates: 1639 - 1800
Format: Online
Covering American history and literature from the colonial period up to the eighteenth century, this database is a full-text digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints which was based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans. Offers fully searchable text and a browse feature with topical indexes.

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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Coverage Dates: 1801 - 1819
Format: Online
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Early American Imprints: Series I, it is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and supplemented by thousands of new items.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Coverage Dates: 1701 - 1800
Format: Online
English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. A variety of materials is included—from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera. Spans many disciplines. Based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.

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English Short Title Catalogue
Coverage Dates: Varies - 1801
Format: Online
Covers monograph and serial letterpress items: printed before 1801; printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages; printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars; with false imprints claiming publication in London, in any language. Includes records for: every item in Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue ...; every item in Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue ...; every item in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue ; newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801.

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FBIS Full Text, 1974 - 1996
Coverage Dates: 1974 - 1996
Format: Online
Full text of Daily Reports from the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, from 1974-1996. Individual reports include speeches, broadcasts, news articles from countries in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Caribbean, Middle East/near East, North America, South America. Texts are translated into English by the CIA.

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Facts on File World News Digest
Coverage Dates: 1940 - Present
Format: Online
Essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers and news magazines around the world. Emphasis throughout is on the factual content rather than opinion or analysis. Also, hourly headline news, maps, and more.

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HeinOnline
Coverage Dates: -
Format: Online
The bound and daily versions of Congressional Record (1873-present), its three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and Congressional Globe (1833-1873); and other important congressional material.

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Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Coverage Dates: 1808 - 1980
Format: Online
A compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Based on the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project," a national research effort directed by Professor Nicol�¡s Kanellos

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Historical Statistics of the United States
Coverage Dates: -
Format: Online
Compendium of demographic, social, and economics statistics on American history.

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House and Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817
Coverage Dates: 1789 - 1817
Format: Online
Journals of the House of Representatives and Senate 1789 to 1817, covering the first 14 Congresses of the United States.

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Index to House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Coverage Dates: 1801 - 1996
Format: CD-ROM
Citations to the Chadwick Healey microfilm of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers. Bowdoin library does not own this microfilm set, but the individual documents can be obtained through interlibrary loan. CD-ROM IS ON RESERVE & MUST BE USED AT THE REFERENCE DESK.

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New York Times Archive (1851-2004)
Coverage Dates: 1851 - 2004
Format: Online


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Nineteenth Century
Coverage Dates: 1801 - 1900
Format: Online
books and pamphlets published in all parts of the world except North America.

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Oxford African American Studies Center
Coverage Dates: -
Format: Online
Includes: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass (and forthcoming companion volume, 1896-present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; African American National Biography; other Oxford reference sources, primary sources, images, maps, charts, and tables.

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PAIS International (1915-1976)
Coverage Dates: 1915 - Present
Format: Online
Provides selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published around the world.

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PAIS International (1972-Present)
Coverage Dates: 1972 - Present
Format: Online
An index of more than 1600 periodicals and specialized journals, as well as selected books, directories, reports, and government documents.

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Periodicals Archive Online
Coverage Dates: 1665 - 2000
Format: Online
Backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically; access to the full text of periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.

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Periodicals Index Online
Coverage Dates: 1665 - 1995
Format: Online
Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanties and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed. The full text of some of the articles can be found in its sister database, Periodicals Archive Online.

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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
Coverage Dates: 1802 - 1906
Format: Print
Focuses on cultural and intellectual life in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Coverage Dates: 1890 - 1982
Format: Online
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

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Senate Executive Journals, Series I, 1789-1866
Coverage Dates: 1789 - 1866
Format: Online
Executive Journals of the United States Senate 1789 to 1866, covering the first Congress through the first session of the 39th Congress.

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Times (London) Archive (1785-1985)
Coverage Dates: 1785 - 1985
Format: Online
The complete digital edition of The Times (London). Offers full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

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U.S. Congressional Serial Set
Coverage Dates: 1817 - 1980 when complete
Format: Online
The U.S. Congressional Serial Set contains fulltext legislative reports, documents and journals from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Significant executive agency publications--reports of exploration, technology, finance, immigration, scientific discovery, culture, commerce and war—are included, along with all maps and illustrations. Congressional publications from 1789 to 1838, are collected in a separate database called the American State Papers. Both databases may be searched together through “Archive of Americana” links within each one.

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Wall Street Journal Archive (1889-1990)
Coverage Dates: 1889 - 19890
Format: Online
Historical archive of the WSJ. Contains cover to cover images, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements.

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Washington Post Archive (1877 - 1991)
Coverage Dates: 1877 - 1989
Format: Online
Full text and images of the Washington Post.

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Women and Social Movements in the United States
Coverage Dates: 1600 - 2000
Format: Online
Revolves around projects that interpret and present documents on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Projects provide the full text of documents, images, and links to websites. Includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women’s History, teaching tools with lesson ideas, and quarterly news from the archives about U.S. Women’s History.

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