HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository which provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, totaling nearly 11 million titles. All users can view the content online, but only UVa-affiliated researchers can download titles for offline use.
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The following resources may be useful in finding primary source literature including manuscripts, books, pamphlets, broadsides, and more. This set of databases concentrate their content on a particular time period. Others can be found on the A-Z list of databases under the subject English.
Searchable full text with page images of books published in 17th- and 18th-century America. Browsable by genre, subject, author, printer, place of publication, and language. See also Early English Books Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
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Searchable full text with page images of books published in early 19th-century America. The collection can also be browsed by genre, subject, author, printer, place of publication, and language.
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Every significant work published in English from 1475 to 1700. Searchable text and page images of books, pamphlets, prayer books, proclamations, almanacs, calendars,etc. in all subjects. See also Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800.
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The following resources may be useful in finding primary source literature including manuscripts, books, pamphlets, broadsides, and more. This set of databases concentrate their content on a particular genre. Others can be found on the A-Z list of databases under the subject English.
The following resources may be useful in finding primary source literature including manuscripts, books, pamphlets, broadsides, and more. This set of databases concentrate their content around a particular theme. Others can be found on the A-Z list of databases under the subject English.
Full-text e-books of classic works in philosophy, religion, and literature.
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The following resources will allow for searching in historical newspapers. Others can be found in the Newspapers & Other News Media research guide.
The following resources will allow for searching in historical periodicals (some include newspapers along with other serials).
The following collections include diaries, letters, and oral histories.