H750: The Atlantic Eighteenth Century

Primary sources

Books/pamphlets/broadsides

Early English Books Online: digital archive of facsimiles of nearly every book printed in Britain and its colonies, or in English anywhere in the world, between 1475-1700

Eighteenth Century Collections Online: digital archive of facsimiles and searchable full text of nearly every book printed in Britain and Ireland, or in English anywhere in the world, in the 18th century

See the ESTC - English Short Title Catalog for titles and editions not included in EEBO and ECCO

Early American Imprints: digital archive of facsimiles and searchable full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in the North American colonies/ early United States, 1639-1800

American Broadsides and Ephemera

Gallica: digitized collections from the Bibliotheque Nationale of France

Topical collections
Early Encounters in North America: searchable text of first-hand accounts of encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, 15th-19th century 

Empire Online: digital collection of documents and texts relating to (mostly British) empire, 15th-20th century

Journals/Newspapers

Times Digital Archive (The Times, London): digital archive of page images and searchable full text of the Times, 1788--

British Newspapers 1600-1900: digitized collection of British newspapers, including some important 18th-century titles

Eighteenth Century Journals: digitized collection of British journals

Some  other 18th-century British journals and newspapers available on microfilm at IUB (see IUCAT for locations):

Anti-Jacobin (1797-1798)
Edinburgh Review (1755-56)
Examiner (1710-1714)
Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1850) (rudimentary indexing, attributions of authorship)
London Magazine (1732-1782)
Manchester Herald (1792-1793)
Spectator (1710-1715, 1753-1754)
Tatler (1709-1711)

Early American Newspapers: digital archive of page images and searchable full text of a large collection of newspapers published in the North American colonies / early United States, 1690-1876

Pennsylvania Gazette: searchable full text of the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800

American Periodicals Series Online: digitized collection of American newspapers and magazines, including some 18th-century titles. Also available: Index to Early American Periodicals, Microforms AI3 .I38 (N.B.: this is on microcard. Assorted 18th-century American periodicals, also on microcard, are shelved nearby in AN2.)

Websites

Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825

The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands (Library of Congress)
 
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas 

Eighteenth-Century Resources (collection of links)

Other

Realms of Gold: A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society:  guide to a huge collecion of maps held at the APS.

David Rumsey Map Collection: digital facsimiles of rare 18th and 19th-century maps

Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1978. Location: Wells (Main) Library Microforms NE55.L7 A37 1984

English Poetry Database: Searchable full text of English-language works of British, Irish, Scottish and Welsh poets, from the Anglo-Saxon period through the end of the Nineteenth century.

Secondary sources

Itinerario (Wells Library, East Tower, JV2501 .I75, current issues in the Current Periodicals Collection).

Historical Abstracts: Index to journals, chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present. Consult America: History & Life for coverage of North America

JSTOR: digital archive of scholarly journals, including 60 core journals in history

H-Atlantic (listserv, discussion log)

Last updated January 28, 2008 by Celestina Savonius-Wroth