Last spring and into summer, Burke Memorial Library purchased access to 4 new library databases. Our new resources include: Accessible Archives, London Times Digital Archive, Nineteenth Century US Newspapers, and Slavery And Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. All four databases contain primary source material including historical newspapers, manuscripts, pamplhets, and more.
Thank you to the Friends of the Spring Hill College Library for providing the funding to purchase London Times Digital Archive, Nineteenth Century US Newspapers, and Slavery And Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive.
If you would like to view the new databases, they are available:
Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window
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A rich collection of primary source material as it relates to American History. Collections of historical newspapers, cultural pamphlets, and primary source collections of materials are available to researchers.
London Times Digital Archive: 1785-Onwards This link opens in a new window
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The London Times is the old continuously produced newspaper and this full text edition of the paper features news from the eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-centuries.
Nineteenth Century US Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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This full text collection features US newspapers from the nineteenth century. Over 500 newspapers come together to allow researchers access to primary source material on life in the US during that time period. The full newspapers title list is available online from Gale.
Slavery And Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive, Parts 1- 4 This link opens in a new window
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The Slavery And Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive contains 4 parts. The parts are, Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, Part III: The Institution of Slavery, and Part IV: The Age of Emancipation. Books, manuscripts, journals, are more tell the story of the transatlantic slave trade, abolition, emancipation, and the societal factors that contributed to it.
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