Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives offers five separate web-based resources, four of which are collections of historic American Newspapers and one of which is a genealogical source. Includes african-american and 'main stream' newspapers of the Civil War era.

American National Biography
The American National Biography (ANB) is the successor to The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB)(1926-1937). As such, it is a source of biographical information on Americans of significance, both American and significance broadly defined. The one fast rule for inclusion is that the person must have died before 1996. Seeking broader coverage than the DAB and cognizant of changes in focus in the study of history, many more women, people of color, and religious minorities are included here. Over 6,000 scholars contributed nearly 17,500 biographies of between 750 and 7,500 words. For each a standard format was followed beginning with a chronological description of the person's life and ending with an evaluation of the person's contemporary significance. Importantly, the each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources about the entry and location of relevant manuscripts. The online version of the ANB can be searched in several ways which make it in some ways more flexible than the print version. It can be searched by entry name, key word, standardized occupation categories, gender, birthplace, date of birth or death and other elements of the entries.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 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, to popular magazines (some still in print), such as Vanity Fair, Harper's and Ladies' Home Journal.
Holdings: 1740-1900

Collection focuses on the history of science and technology. Representative is the correspondence of leading figures in mid-19th century American science who were associated with the National Academy of Sciences. There is some material concerned with the history of Philadelphia, women, Afro-Americans, and the Civil War.

12,000 volumes. Contemporary and current periodicals. One of the most notable Civil War repositories; includes letter books, journals, diaries, orders, original correspondence. Focus is on material from the Union.

Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900
Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United States and Canada, this database focuses on newspapers first published before the Civil War. The collection includes over 900 newspapers.

Hundreds of thousands of pre-1923 books searchable and available online.

Harpweek
Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval.

Civil War military resources; strong Afro-American collection, including materials on slavery; speeches, diaries, correspondence.