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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
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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.