Founding Philadelphia: HIST 0867

America's Historical Newspapers provides searchable, scanned newspaper pages. The collection contains Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5 (1690-1922), Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876), African American Newspapers, Series 1 (1827-1998), and The Civil War (1840-1877).

Newspaper published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800. Select it from the list of sources to begin searching.

Offers early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials, many of which were published in Philadelphia. Covers 1639-1819.

Founders Online contains historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. It provides records, original thoughts, ideas, debates, and principles from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. This database is provided by The National Archives and the University of Virginia Press.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries Includes the personal experiences of women writing from Colonial times to 1950; represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Early Encounters in North America contains documents on relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides perspectives from all of the protagonists.

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