English Language and Literature

Provides an interactive research environment that allows researchers to cross-search multiple Gale collections including Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century collections, Making of Modern Law, and other Archives products and to discover and analyze content in new ways.

Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.

A collection of works printed in English now containing full-text images of 100,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) & the Early English Tract Supplement. EEBO covers many subjects including English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, & science.
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Search Early modern English and American women's writings from 1500 to 1850. Includes full text of books, poetry, and speeches as well as browse by date, author, and title. Exhibits and teaching tools also available. View a tutorial on this database here.

Definitive primary source collection of research materials from the 17th and 18th century America. Collection contains digitized representations of all known existing books, pamphlets, & broadsides printed in the United States. View a tutorial on this database here.

Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published America in the early part of the 19th century. Features many state papers and government materials, including published reports; presidential letters and state and territorial resolutions. Based on "American Bibliography, 1801-1819" by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. View a tutorial on this database here.

Contains primary sources about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Includes books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, and religious history. Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography.

Search Early modern English and American women's writings from 1500 to 1850. Includes full text of books, poetry, and speeches as well as browse by date, author, and title. Exhibits and teaching tools also available. View a tutorial on this database here.

Contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
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