J300: Marriage and the American Nation

I. Collections of Primary Sources for the 17th and 18th centuries

Early English Books Online

• books, pamphlets and periodicals in any language printed Great Britain and its colonies and in English printed anywhere in the world
• time period: 1473 to 1700
• scanned page images
• searchable text for about 10% of the collection
• searchable by keywords, authors and subjects

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

• books and pamphlets in any language printed Great Britain and its colonies and in English printed anywhere in the world
• time period: 1701 to 1800
• scanned page images and searchable text
  searchable by keywords, authors, place of publication, etc; limit by date, language
• can also be browsed by author and title

Evans Digital Edition

• books and pamphlets published in the North American colonies / early United States
• time period: 1639 to 1795 (will be to 1800 when complete) --see Sabin Americana 1500-1926, Making of Modern Law, Making of Modern Law: Trials, and Making of the Modern World for more early American publications
• scanned page images and searchable text
• searchable by keywords, authors and subjects; limit by date, language
• can also be browsed by genre, subject, author, etc

Early American Newspapers

• newspapers published in the North American colonies / United States
• time period: varies by newspaper, 1690-1922
• scanned page images and searchable text
• searchable by keywords, limit searches by date, newspaper, state and/or type of article (letter, advertisement, etc)

Pennsylvania Gazette

• searchable full text (but no page images) of the Pennsylvania Gazette (one of the most widely read papers in colonial America)
• time period: 1728-1800
• searchable by keywords, limit searches by date

II. Collections of Primary Sources for the 19th and 20th centuries

American Periodicals Series Online

• Searchable digitized collection of American magazines and journals, 1740-1900

Early American Fiction, 1789-1875

• Full text collection of 700+ American novels and short stories

Early American Imprints Series II

• Books, pamphlets, broadsides and some government publications, published in the United States
• time period: 1801-1819
• same search interface as Evans Digital Edition. --see Sabin Americana 1500-1926, Making of Modern Law, Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926, and Making of the Modern World for more 18th-20th-century American publications

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920

• Digital archive of advertisements (good for fashion, cookbooks, etc)

Godey's Lady's Book

• Searchable text (plus page images for pages with illustrations) of a very popular 19th-century women's magazine (see American Periodicals Series Online, above, for access to many more)
• can be cross-searched with African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century

History of Women

• huge microfilm collection of books, pamphlets, photographs and manuscripts relating to women's history up to 1920. 
• Everything in the collection is cataloged in IUCAT--use this advanced search strategy to find items of interest.

In the First Person

• Online index to autobiographical materials (letters, journals, memoirs) 
• Most materials included are available in either print or electronic form at the IUB Libraries (see especially North American Women's Letters and Diaries)

Lexis-Nexis Congressional

• access to full text of the entire contents of the U.S. Congressional Serials Set, 1789—

Making of America

• searchable collection of 19th-century books and periodicals
• note that text is a bit rough, but page images are available for comparison
• ee American Periodicals Series Online, above, and online indexes listed below for access to hundreds of other 19th-century periodicals

Marriage, Women and the Law ("Studies in Scarlet")

• Full text collection of primary source documents (including state statutes)

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

• Searchable collection of women's personal papers
• Highly organized database: easy to find information on specific life events (like marriage)

ArchiveGrid 

• atabase of images of hundreds of thousands of documents and objects from American archives and museums

Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries

• Microfilm collection of the personal papers of hundreds of women in the southern U.S.
• available in Microforms, HQ 1438 . S63 S687
• Search the guides to this collection through Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in U.S. History 

Women and Social Movements

• digital collection of documents relating to American women's social activism
• 17th-20th century but with most material for the 20th century

Women's History Collections at the Library of Congress (American Memory)

• digital collections, mostly relating to woman suffrage

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)

• close to 3000 works of fiction by American authors

III. Online indexes to 19th- and 20th-century primary sources

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

• searches for books and other British and American publications 

Nineteenth Century Masterfile

• searches the contents of thousands of 19th-century British and American periodicals

Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982

• searches the contents of the most widely read American periodicals

Periodicals Index Online

• earches the contents of thousands of scholarly journals (in English and other languages). Good coverage of the 19th and 20th centuries

IV. 19th- and 20th-century Newspapers

African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century

• Full text of several important African-American newspapers
• same search interface as the Pennsylvania Gazette
• Hundreds of other African American newspapers are available on microfilm. To locate in IUCAT, try a subject search for african americans newspapers or see below for searching by city of publication

19th Century Historical United States Newspapers

• full text of a selection of newspapers from all regions of the U.S.

Other newspapers available:

• Early American Newspapers covers 19th-century newspapers, mostly from eastern states.
• The New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)(NYT), Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers), Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) and Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) are available as digital archives.
• Many other late 19th- and early 20th-century newspapers are available on microfilm. To find them in IUCAT, do a keyword search for the city of publication, followed by {752}--like this:  indianapolis{752}
• The IUB Libraries' newspaper collection is strong in ethnic and alternative publications. To find mainstream newspapers available on microform, consult Newspapers in Microform at the Wells Library Reference Desk.

V. Finding materials at other libraries

Use WorldCat to locate materials referred to in footnotes, or materials you identify using the resources above, that are not listed in IUCAT, for example. Use the Request via InterLibrary Loan link in WorldCat to borrow the item from a library that has it.