Description for the website: Beginning in 1837 the printer Peter Force, who also served as mayor of Washington, D.C., devoted sixteen years to collecting thousands of pamphlets, booklets, and newspaper articles pertaining to the "Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America" from the Revolutionary Era in order to preserve them for future generations. He published them in a set of nine large volumes that he called the American Archives. By the late twentieth century Force's collection of materials from the years 1774-6 had become a valuable scholarly resource, as it contained the only surviving copies of many important documents.
The Annals of Congress, formally known as The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, cover the 1st Congress through the first session of the 18th Congress, from 1789 to 1824. The Annals were not published contemporaneously, but were compiled between 1834 and 1856, using the best records available, primarily newspaper accounts. Speeches are paraphrased rather than presented verbatim, but the record of debate is nonetheless fuller than that available from the House and Senate Journals.
The American State Papers, comprising a total of thirty-eight physical volumes, contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes documents that cover the critical historical gap from 1789 to the printing of the first volume of the U.S. Serial Set in 1817 [The Serial Set contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports.]
Based on the renowned American bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristols Supplement to Evans American bibliography, this database, which provides full text, is a foundation for research on every aspect of 17th and 18th century American life
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this database provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century (1801-1819).
Freedom's Journal was the first in what would become a long line of African American newspapers. Founded in 1827, as the first black-owned and edited newspaper in the country, Freedom's Journal was a strong proponent of the abolition of slavery. Published for just two years, until 1829.
Published 1821-1838. During this time period, the antislavery movement's leading journal was the Genius of Universal Emancipation, edited by Benjamin Lundy. Initially appearing monthly and then weekly for several years, Genius was dedicated to providing wide-ranging coverage of the antislavery cause. Lundy published material on gradual emancipation, which he initially favored, as well as immediate abolition; he included information on both the colonization movement and on free black activism.
In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm.
This resource includes works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's including books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. Included are 29,000 works based Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time.
Papers of Statesmen, Presidents, and other leading "founders" are available in print or, in some cases, online form. Some examples of both online and print papers are below. To find other sets of papers, consult NUsearch. Digital versions of some papers of American statesmen may be available online, from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress.
Also available in print. W. W. Abbot, editor, Dorothy Twohig, associate editor, Philander D. Chase, Beverly H. Runge, and Frederick Hall Schmidt, assistant editors. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1983- ) Call number: 973.4 W31Y.p. In four series, covers the Colonial period, Revolutionary War, Confederation, and Retirement of George Washington.
This edition of Alexander Hamilton’s papers contains letters and other documents written by Hamilton, letters to Hamilton, and some documents (commissions, certificates, etc.) that directly concern Hamilton but were written neither by him nor to him.
Also availabile inprint. Julian P. Boyd, editor ; Lyman H. Butterfield ... [et al.], associate editors. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-2011). Call number: 973.4 J45pa. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is currently a 42-volume series containing not only the 18,000 letters written by Jefferson but also, in full or in summary, the more than 25,000 letters written to him. Check the index!
Robert J. Taylor, editor ; Mary-Jo Kline, associate editor ; Gregg L. Lint, assistant editor. (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977- ). Call number: 973.4 A21 1961 ser.3 v.2. (Also on microfilm in the Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room, Film 5476. Inquire at Circulation Desk.)
Consists of approximately 12,000 items housed in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, captured in some 72,000 digital images, including correspondence, personal notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autobiography, legal and financial documents, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
The Annals of Congress, formally known as The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, cover the 1st Congress through the first session of the 18th Congress, from 1789 to 1824. The Annals were not published contemporaneously, but were compiled between 1834 and 1856, using the best records available, primarily newspaper accounts. Speeches are paraphrased rather than presented verbatim, but the record of debate is nonetheless fuller than that available from the House and Senate Journals.
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
America's Historical Newspapers allow you to search and browse American newspapers published across three centuries. It includes thousands of titles from all 50 states and chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life from 1690 to the recent past. Select "limit search" by "dates and eras" and you can limit your searching to selected eras in the History of the Caribbean, "International Conflicts and Slave Rebellions (1751 to 1790)" and/or "Revolutions and Nation Building (1791 to 1825)."
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Full text database of American periodicals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many more. For those periodicals that continued to publish after 1900, coverage is extended well into the 20th century.
The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912, documenting the life of Americas people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.