America's Historical Newspapers features full text cover-to-cover reproductions of historic newspapers published in 50 states and the District of Columbia. The coverage provides insight into the early years of the United States: the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities; the later westward expansion and the rise of the penny press with its increasing emphasis on society, industry, and scientific advances; the Civil War era, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive era, and beyond. Please note that the full text may not be available for all issues of a particular newspaper (the database continues to grow). Collections include:

• African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Series 1 and Series 2)
• American Business: Agricultural Newspapers
• American Business: Mercantile Newspapers
• American Gazettes: Newspapers of Record
• American Politics: Campaign Newspapers
• American Religion: Denominational Newspapers
• Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation
• Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900: The New Republic
• Early American Newspapers, Series 3, 1783-1922: From Farm to City
• Early American Newspapers, Series 4, 1756-1922: The Rise of Industry
• Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922: An Emerging World Power
• Early American Newspapers, Series 6, 1741-1922: Compromise and Disunion
• Early American Newspapers, Series 7: 1773-1922: Reform and Retrenchment
• Early American Newspapers, Series 8, 1844-1922: A Nation in Transition
• Early American Newspapers, Series 9, 1832-1922: Protest and Prosperity
• Early American Newspapers, Series 10, 1730-1900: Regional Pioneers
• Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899: From Agrarian Republic to World Power
• Early American Newspapers, Series 12, 1821-1900: The Specialized Press
• Early American Newspapers, Series 13, 1803-1916: The American West
• Early American Newspapers, Series 14, 1807-1880: The Expansion of Urban America
• Early American Newspapers, Series 15, 1822-1879: Immigrant Communities
• Early American Newspapers, Series 16, 1800-1877: Industry and the Environment
• Early American Newspapers Series 17, 1844-1922: American Heartland
• Early American Newspapers, Series 18, 1825-1879: Racial Awakening in the Northeast

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. America: History & Life with Full Text also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.

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 first 60 years of the 19th century became the golden age of American periodicals, with general interest magazines, children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women. Many of the publications reflect on the growing debate over slavery, including the serialization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era that preceded the novel. Also available are hard-to-find materials, such as Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger, as well as the first appearances of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories in New England Magazine, and Margaret Fuller's contributions to the Dial. 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, and titles from the 1880s through 1900 capture the settling of the West and the emergence of modern Amer

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.

Taken directly from the extensive holdings of the British Library, the more than 160 publications illuminate diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press over a period of more than 200 years.

The British Library Newspapers collections feature London national newspapers, English regional papers, home country newspapers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and Chartism. Employing the latest imaging techniques, the collection offers its users highly illustrated materials that support research in History, Literature, Victorian Studies, Genealogy, Fine Arts, Finance/Economics, Political Science, and more.

The British Library Newspapers collection also consists of the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

British Online Archives (BOA) is one of the United Kingdom’s leading academic publishers. BOA's goal is to provide students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. To this end, BOA hosts over 4 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine. Currently, collections accessible through the Library of Congress include:

• America in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1635-1928
• American Records in the House of Lords Archive, 1621-1917
• The American Revolution from a British Perspective, 1763-1783
• American Slave Trade Records and Other Papers of the Tarleton Family, 1678-1838
• Antigua, Slavery and Emancipation in the Records of a Sugar Plantation, 1689-1907
• Atheism and Anti-War Sentiments in the Bradlaugh Family, 1833-1948
• Australia in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1808-1967
• BBC Handbooks, Annual Reports and Accounts, 1927-2002
• BBC Listener Research Department Reports, 1937-c.1950
• "Bray Schools" in Canada, America and the Bahamas, 1645-1900
• Bristol Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1770-1917
• British Army Lists of Officers, 1740-1784
• British Communism in Campaigns and Events, 1947-1991
• British Diplomacy from the Unification of Germany to the Spanish Civil War, 1863-1939
• British Diplomacy with America and Ireland, an Ambassador's Letters, 1909-1962
• British Labour Party Papers, 1906-1969
• British Labour Party Papers, 1968-1994
• British Parliamentary History, 1102-1803
• The British Raj: Resistance and Reform in India, 1879-1910
• The British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files, 1933-1951
• British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
• Canada in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1722-1952
• Caribbean Colonial Statistics from the British Empire, 1824-1950
• The Church of England and Social Change in Manchester, 1635-1928
• The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Partition of the Middle East, 1879-1919
• Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953
• Colonial Missionaries' Papers from America and the West Indies, 1701-1870
• Colonial Women Missionaries of the Committee for Women's Work, 1861-1967
• Communisms and the Cold War, 1944-1986
• Conscientious Objection During World War 1
• Debate and Division on the British Left, 1917-1964
• Development of Canadian Governance and Foreign Policy, 1883-1904
• The East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India, 1806-1814
• The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774
• Essays and Dissertations of the Scottish Royal Medical Society, 1751-1970
• Gambia under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1881-1966
• Gender, Feminism, and the British Left, 1944-1991
• Ghana and Togo under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1843-1957
• Ghana in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1886-1951
• Hitler's Army, Nazi Germany at War and the Nuremburg Trials, 1925-1956
• Independent Labour Party Records, 1893-1960
• Indian and Sri Lankan Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1770-1931
• Indian Communists and Trade Unionists on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy, 1929-1933
• Indigenous Cultures and Christian Conversion in Ghana and Sierra Leone, 1700-1850
• The Industrial Revolution: Technological Innovation in the Textile Industry, 1672-1929
• International Relations between Britain and America, 1796-1848
• Kenya under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907-1964
• Life on the Front Line: Diaries, News, and Letters from the First World War, 1914-1919
• Life under Nazi Rule: Reports by Anti-Fascists in Occupied Europe, 1933-1945
• Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 1 through Part 4
• Liverpool through Time: From Slavery to the Industrial Revolution, 1766-1900
• Malawi under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports 1907-1967
• Marxist History and Historians in the 20th Century
• Military Tactics and the Rise of Modern Warfare, 1881-1935
• New Zealand & Polynesian Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1838-1958
• Nigeria and Cameroon under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1887-1962
• Power and Profit: British Colonial Trade in America and the Caribbean, 1678-1825
• Prison Ship Records from the War of 1812
• Records from Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1559-1932
• Reporting on Africa: From Apartheid to Pan-Africanism, 1949-1995
• Science and Marxism, 1956-1985
• Scottish Nationalist Leaflets, 1844-1973
• Scottish Trade with Africa and the West Indies in the Early 18th Century, 1694-1709
• Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement, 1902-1933
• Sierra Leone under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1893-1961
• Slave Trade Records from Liverpool, 1754-1792
• Slave Trading Records from William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797
• Slavery, Exploitation and Trade in the West Indies, 1759-1832
• Slavery in Jamaica, Records from a Family of Slave Owners, 1686-1860
• Slavery through Time: From Enslavers to Abolitionists, 1675-1865
• South Africa in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1819-1900
• South American Missionaries' Records, 1844-1919
• Tanzania and Malawi in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1857-1965
• "Thou Shalt Not Kill": Missionaries in Asia during the World Wars, 1914-1946
• Trade Unionism and the Chartist Movement, 1833-1910
• Trade Unions in Crisis: the 1961 ETU Ballot-Rigging Scandal
• Transatlantic Civil Society in Periodicals, 1768-1925
• Uganda under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1903-1961
• Walt Whitman and his Fellowhip of Supporters in Bolton, 1891-1913
• Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Periodicals, 1744-1960
• The West Indies in Records from Colonial Missionaires, 1704-1950
• World News in Indian Newspapers, 1782-1908
• Zimbabwe under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1897-1980

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). Continued by Early American Imprints Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819. Two additional imprint collections are now available: the Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) and the Supplement from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).

Users can select which imprint collection to search by clicking "Searching" in the top right corner of the screen and selecting the desired collection(s) from the drop down-menu.

U.K. Parliamentary 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. There will be ongoing regular releases of papers from current sessions of Parliament. The main collections are:
-House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1715-2015
-House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, 1714-1910
-Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918