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Early American Literature Resources

Below is a very selective list of Early American literary and historical resources available through Hopkins subscription or for free on the web.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for additional resources to add to this list, please contact Don Juedes, Librarian for English and American Literature.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

America -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources
American literature
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
American fiction
Authors, American
American literature -- Women authors
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources

Subscription Databases

American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 (All US JHU)

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (All US JHU)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science (All US JHU)

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (All US JHU)

Early American Fiction 1789-1875 (All US JHU)

Early encounters in North America peoples, cultures, and the environment. (All US JHU)

Early English Books Online (All US JHU)

Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) (All US JHU)

Literature Online (LION) (All US JHU)

MLA International Bibliography (All JHU (incl. International))

Newspaper Abstracts (All JHU (incl. International))

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (All US JHU)

Free Web Sites

American Memory

American Slave Narratives

American Studies Hypertexts

American Studies Web

American Women's History: Digital Collection of Primary Sources

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas

Colonial and Revolutionary Literature from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Documenting the American South

Early American Literature, 1680-1820

Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

Making of America (Cornell)

Making of America (U Michigan)

Perspectives on American Literature --
Early American Literature to 1700 / Early American Literature 1700-1800

Voice of the Shuttle: American Literature

Journals

American Historical Review
Early American Literature (UNC)
Early American Studies (McNeil Center for Early American Studies)
H-OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
The Journal of Southern History (The Southern Historical Association)
The New England Quarterly (Northeastern University)

Dissertations

Proquest's Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations and Theses Full Text indexes dissertations and masters' theses from most North American graduate schools as well as some European universities. Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published from 1980 include abstracts; master's theses from 1988 include abstracts. Titles available as native or PDF formats include twenty-four page previews.

Index to Theses
The Index to Theses describes theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards from 1716 to date.