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Narratives, diaries, and letters

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• Personal narratives, diaries, letters, speeches, memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal correspondences
• Indexes and full-text
• Includes audio recordings

Title		Summary	Date	ID	Author(s)
APS American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 from ProQuest (APS)		APS - American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 from ProQuest American Periodicals Series Online contains over 1,100 full-text periodicals (in HTML and PDF) that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including scholarly, special interest, and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Covers all academic disciplines including the sciences, though news and literary magazines are most prevalent. An excellent source of primary documents.    Full record	Sep 13, 2010	e1000296
African American Study Center from Oxford		African American Studies Center from Oxford The African American Studies Center provides full-text articles from encyclopedias and other references sources, plus primary sources with commentary, maps, charts, and biographies on African and African-American history, culture, literature, education, and the arts.   Full record	Jan 20, 2011	e1000860
America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex		America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex America's Historical Imprints is a digital collection containing virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America over a 200-year period. It is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties, and more. Scanned pages available as JPEG, TIFF, and PDF.   Full record	Jan 3, 2012	e1000847
America: History and Life from EBSCOhost		America: History and Life from EBSCOhost America: History and Life is an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database includes citations and links to journal articles, dissertations, primary documents, and book and media reviews. Some content is available full-text (PDF and HTML). Allows limiting to peer reviewed articles, those with references, and to historical periods (date ranges). 1863-present.   Full record	Sep 13, 2010	e1000120
American Inaugurals: The Speeches, The Presidents, and Their Times from Gale Virtual Reference Online		American Inaugurals: The Speeches, The Presidents, and Their Times from Gale Virtual Reference Library American Inaugurals presents the inaugural address of the U.S. president from George Washington through George W. Bush. It includes a brief biography, a list of important events during the president's term of office, the actual text of the speech (in HTML and PDF), and notable quotes, plus portraits and reproductions of period paints, photos, and engravings.    Full record	Sep 13, 2010	e1000876
American Memory from the Library of Congress		American Memory from the Library of Congress American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s digitized American historical materials, organized into more than 100 thematic collections. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Each collection provides explanatory features to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections. 1400s-present. Full record	Sep 13, 2010
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood		American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography from Greenwood American Slavery contains both an overview of the collection of former slave narratives with related links (available without charge from the home page) and the collection of narratives themselves. Each narrative is delivered as a PDF as originally transcribed, with some interviews available as sound files. Searchable by name of narrator, interviewer, or master, the county or state where the narrator lived in slavery, the narrator's age or year of birth, or the location of the material in the print version (volume and page). 1920s-1940s (original interviews).   Full record	Sep 13, 2010	e1000149
AnimalBase		AnimalBase AnimalBase provides copyright-free open access to zoological works and provides manually verified lists of names of zoological genera and species. It includes digitized books and journal articles, most from prior to 1900, in their original language. Documents display as scanned images; many can be downloaded as PDFs. You can also search or browse by species, genus, or family. 350 BCE-present. Full record	Sep 13, 2010
Archive Finder (C19) from Chadwych-Healey		Archive Finder C19 from Chadwyck-Healey Archive Finder is a current directory of repositories and collections of primary source material across the United States, including Special Collections at Virginia Tech. Using Archive Finder, researchers can read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material relevant to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.   Full record	Sep 13, 2010	e1000431