America's Historical Newspapers features full text cover-to-cover reproductions of historic newspapers published in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Coverage in this resource includes: Early American Newspapers, Series I - XV and Archive of Americana covering dates from 1690 to 1876.

America: History & Life with Full Text is the definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. The database also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.

The American Founding Era collection covers the correspondence of a number of key figures from Americas founding era. It includes thousands of documents written by members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the Confederation Congress, the thirteen state legislatures that called ratifying conventions, members of those ratifying conventions, and by other contemporaries to trace the Constitutions progress. The ratification process is followed through writings in contemporary newspapers, books, broadsides, pamphlets, private letters, and the official state records. Also included are numerous constitutional documents predating the ratification process, as well as the documents related to the adoption of the Bill of Rights. The database includes the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladie's Home Journal regional and niche publications and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. APS Online chronicles the development of America across 150 years. The journals in this collection cover three broad periods: 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's transition from colonial times to independence. The journals support research for a range of academic fields. Titles include Massachusetts Magazine, which published America's first short stories, and Thomas Paine's Pennsylvania Magazine, which reported on inventions. One of the first mass printings of the Declaration of Independence, a letter by George Washington on the crucial Battle of Trenton, and the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin are among the highlights of content from this period.

The most comprehensive range of regional and local newspapers in Britain between the mid eighteenth and mid twentieth centuries ever made available in a digital collection, the collections within the British Library Newspapers series provide a range of publications to reflect the social, political and cultural events of the times. The British Library Newspapers collection also consists of the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

British Online Archives (BOA) builds upon a long and illustrious history of archival publishing and preservation that stretches back almost sixty years, operating under its parent trading company, Microform Academic Publishers. The BAO Collections are divided into twelve broad topics, including a section on the colonization of North America and the American Revolution.

Colonial America makes available all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London, plus all extracted documents associated with them. This unique collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is an invaluable one for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world. Covering the period 1606 to 1822, CO 5 constitutes the original correspondence of the the colonial governments with the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State for the Southern Department and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, together holding responsibility for the British possessions in mainland North America and the Caribbean, making it a uniquely rich resource for all historians of the period. Colonial America includes 5 modules, organised thematically. Module 1: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries; Module 2: Towards Revolution; Module 3: The American Revolution; Module 4: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies; Module 5: Growth, Trade and Development

Full-text of more than 36,000 printed works covering American history and literature through the colonial period up to the eighteenth century. Contains a wide range of genres, including advertisements, ballads, broadsides, cookbooks, grammars, maps, memoirs, novels, prayer books, prospectuses, sermons, songs, textbooks, trade catalogues, and travel literature. The database is a digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American Bibliography of Charles Evans (14 volumes).

HCPP contains the full text of all sessional papers issued by the House of Commons, including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers. The Papers provide a forum for the ideas of hundreds of thinkers in the UK, among them Jenner, Arnold, Trollope, Mill, Faraday, Babbage, Telford, and Brunel. Parliamentary Papers cover all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy, not only for the United Kingdom, but for the whole of the British Empire. Topics covered include: British Imperialism the move from an agrarian society to an industrial society social conditions of the British working class public health issues removal of the American Indians agriculture travel and immigration.

JSTOR is a collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back to the late 17th century. Some of the Life Sciences titles date to the 1600's, while many of the Arts & Science titles begin in the late 1800's. Sub-collections include: Biological Sciences Business (I & II) Ecology & Botany Health & General Sciences Language & Literature Mathematics & Statistics and Music. Full text is available up to the last 3-5 years for most titles (moving wall). JSTOR allows browsing by title or by discipline(s) , and full text searching of individual titles or the entire collection.