Primary Sources /
  • American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
  • Digitized Primary American History Sources
  • Google Books
    Books - Over four million full text books published prior to 1923
    millions of “partial view” books after 1923
    Magazines - click on “Magazines” option … then “Browse all issues”

  • Hathi Trust – Catalog Search
    Books - Over four million full text books published prior to 1923
  • JSTOR
    Access- Google Rod Library – Click on “View a list of databases A-Z”
  • Making of American Collection (Cornell University)

Books - Hundreds of books published during the 19th century

Magazines -

American Jewess 1895-1899 (hosted on behalf of the Jewish Women's Archive)
American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
Century (1881 - 1899)
Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
Living Age (1844 - 1900)
Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
New Englander (1843 - 1892)
North American Review (1815 - 1900)
Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
Punchinello (1870)
Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)

  • Making of American Collection (University of Michigan)

Books - Over 10,000 books published during the 19th century
(use "Subject Browsing”)

Magazines -

American Jewess 1895-1899 (hosted on behalf of the Jewish Women's Archive)
Appleton's 1869-1881
Catholic World 1865-1901
DeBow's 1846-1869 + 1952 index
Garden and Forest 1888-1897 (hosted on behalf of the Library of Congress)
Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers 1880-1891
Ladies Repository 1841-1876
The Old Guard 1864
Overland Monthly 1868-1900
Princeton Review 1831-1882
Southern Literary Messenger 1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index
Southern Quarterly Review 1842-1857 (3 series)
Vanity Fair 1860-1862

  • New York Times (online from 1851 - )
    Access- Google Rod Library – click on “View a list of databases A-Z”
  • Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature – Poole’s Index
  • UNISTAR (Books in Rod Library)
    Access - Google Rod Library – click on “Books & More” – click on Advanced UNISTAR Search