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American literature is literature written in what is now the United States. This includes prose, poetry, drama, and also oral materials such as Native American legends, myths, and folk tales.

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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.
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American Poetry from the Electronic Text Center at UVA

American Poetry from the Electronic Text Center at UVA
American Poetry contains over 40,000 full-text poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. Any accompanying text written by the poet and forming an integral part of the poem, such as dedications, notes, arguments and epigraphs, is also generally included. 1625-1900.
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African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVA

African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVA
A collection of over 2,500 full-text poems in HTML. It provides a survey of African American poetry from the earliest published African American poems to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar. The bibliographic basis is William French's Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975.
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Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 from Gale Virtal Reference Library

Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 from Gale Virtal Reference Library
Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on selective works of African American literature, including works of African and Carribean authors. Entries include biographical data, overviews of literary interests, summaries of works, and critical commentary. Many entries include an author portrait.
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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.
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