Perdita Manuscripts This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. Adam Matthew Digital […]
Month: August 2008
New Database Trial: Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c 1685-1815
Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c 1685-1815 Eighteenth Century Journals I contains material from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, one of the finest surviving collections of eighteenth-century periodicals. In this resource we have drawn together 95 rare journals printed between 1693 and 1799, combining major publications with more […]
New Database Trial: Everyday Life & Women in America c. 1800-1920
Everyday Life & Women in America c. 1800-1920 This digital collection is an unparalleled resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing immediate access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable […]
New Database: The Birds of North America Online
The Birds of North America Online This database provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird’s songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Includes […]
New Database:Clotel
Clotel The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel’s four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. Imaged and coded, the fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and […]
New Database: Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index […]
Cancellations for 2009
This is just a reminder note to selectors that there is a spreadsheet for 2009 subscription cancellations in the Shared Directory under: SHARED==> TSAD 0809 ==>CANCELLATIONS FOR 2009 Please record your decisions to cancel a current subscription on that spreadsheet. Please enter data into the correct column. Please provide the information requested. It speeds the […]
New Database: American County Histories to 1900
American County Histories to 1900 These books include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments and associations, cemeteries, […]
New Database: Historical Guardian and Observer
Historical Guardian and Observer The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ERC: John Tofanelli […]
New Database: Documents on British Policy Overseas: Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
Documents on British policy overseas: diplomacy in the twentieth century Documents on British Policy Overseas provides users with access to a wide range of primary source documents from Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on throughout the twentieth century. Selected and edited by the official historians of the FCO, Documents on British Policy Overseas […]