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Retrospective collection of largely Congressional, but also Executive, primary source materials illuminating key moments in early American history as they occurred and influential decisions as they were made.
Based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. This full text collection serves as a foundation set for research involving early America. It covers every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft. Early American Imprints includes items previously produced on microform plus more than 1,000 additional works located, catalogued and digitized since completion of the earlier effort. The collection consists of more than 37,000 full text books, pamphlets and broadsides.
465 active full-text journals, magazines and newspapers, many of which are peer-reviewed and non-open access. EDS provides access to 4,500+ ebooks, 2,000+ full-text biographies, over 6,300 primary source documents, and various other resources including historical documents and hundreds of curated videos from the Associated Press.

Also includes eBook Subscription Diversity & Ethnic Studies
Digital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, Western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Full-text searching across millions of pages provides access to a vast collection of material for research in the areas of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more. The period 1450-1850 was formerly available in the library on microfilm and known as the Goldsmiths’ Kress Library of Economic Literature; Part II of the database covers 1851-1914.
Indexes over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. Offers access to information about history, culture, science and seminal developments across nearly a century.
More than 70,000 maps printed as part of the Congressional Serial Set. More than 50 percent of these are scanned at high resolution enabling users to see and download the smallest details on the map. Several Executive Branch agencies are the most prolific publishers of the maps including the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994). Provides access to full text primary source material on U.S. political, social, cultural, military and ethnic history, as well as international relations, explorations, genealogy, commerce, and industrial development.

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