This guide is designed for new researchers who need to find articles, sources, and get started with research in topics related to the nineteenth century.
Getting Started
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Wellesley Index to Victorian PeriodicalsThis database provides access to Victorian Periodicals from 1824-1900: article records, contributor and pseudonym records, and periodical introductions, and includes links to full text articles for selected titles available in ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online and British Periodicals.
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Reader's Guide RetrospectiveUseful for researching popular culture in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. Search for articles from popular magazines from 1890-1982.
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C19, the nineteenth century indexThe most comprehensive and dynamic source for discovering nineteenth-century books, journals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
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Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2015Full-text searchable copy of every issue of "The Economist" from 1843. Full-color images, multiple search indexes, and the facility to browse each and every issue. Access is not available for the most current four years.
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HarpWeekHarpWeek contains the scanned images of pages of the magazine Harper's Weekly for the years 1857-1912, with a series of indexes to search for news, editorials, fiction, illustrations, photos, political cartoons, advertisements.
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Times Digital Archive, 1785-2014Search full text and digital archive of "The Times of London" newspaper for the years 1785-2014. View either a specific article or a complete page with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories.
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America's Historical NewspapersSpanning two centuries and 40 states, these archives of selective content from historical newspapers are primary sources for researching crucial conflicts from the Civil War to World War I, movements ranging from early states rights to women's suffrage, noteworthy citizens, local events, natural disasters; political campaigns; and the evolution of American culture.
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Nineteenth Century British NewspapersDigital archive of British newspapers from 1800 to 1900 including national and regional newspapers from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included in the collection.
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