English Language & Literature

Contains digitized images from hundreds of historic early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922.

Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the early 20th century.

Contains digitized images of periodicals, broadsides, pamphlets, and monographs focused on 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues.

Contains digitized images of periodicals and books documenting feminist thought and initiatives around the world. Both feminist and anti-feminist perspectives are represented, as well as dispassionate accounts of the condition of women through the centuries.

Contains digitized images of the pages of Harper's Weekly published between 1857 and 1912.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers covers events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America and features publications of all kinds, including major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests.

Contains digitized images of the pages of mainstream American, African American, and UK newspapers, including The New York Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Guardian & Observer, The Irish Times, and more.

Contains thousands of dramatic works written by American dramatists from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. Includes melodramas, frontier plays, minstrel shows, farces, Civil War drama, social and domestic satires, as well as dialogues and rhetorical exercises.

Access guaranteed through May 2027
American Fiction, contains more than 17,800 titles and is comprised of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I.

Contains thousands of poems written by American poets from the Colonial period to the early 20th century. Includes Canonical and lesser-known poets, as well as literary groups, such as the Transcendentalists and the Knickerbocker school.

Contains original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works of 19th and early 20th century Western Americana from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Contains works of prose fiction by American authors from the late 18th century to the late 19th century.

Contains letters, diaries, pamphlets, and rare printed books from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York. Explores the history of Jewish communities in America, bringing to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture.

Contains primary sources from the Long 19th century, including works in Western as well as non-Western languages, sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions around the globe.

Contains letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives from individuals who immigrated to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

Contains diaries, correspondence, and manuscripts written by over 1,300 North American women from the Colonial period to 1950.

Contains books, images, documents, scholarly essays and commentaries, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities and examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the present.

Contains works written by English and American women between 1400 and 1850. Includes verse, fiction, and drama, as well as autobiographies, domestic manuals, and critical commentaries on select works and authors.