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Digitized collection of 270 newspapers from 35 states covering the African American experience.

These are digitized facsimilies from the American Antiquarian Society’s collections. It includes 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900, and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

This collection of online videos includes over 4,000 titles of documentaries, newsreels, and archival and public affairs footage concerning events in American history.

A digitized collection of primary source materials related to the American West.

"...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."

This digital collection of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides provides primary source materials for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history. It covers 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. Materials come from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library.

An online collection of over 200 online journals published by Oxford University Press.

A collection of e-books published by Oxford University Press from 2007-2010. These books are also listed in the SSC Library catalog.

This is a huge, multidisciplinary database of mostly full-text articles.

Extensive digitized collection of archival materials from several museum, university and state collections on both sides of the Atlantic.