http://www.lib.vt.edu/subject-guides/HIST/primary-us-history.html en Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:27:30 -0400 bpencek@vt.edu bpencek@vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/librarians/S_pencek-bruce-pic.jpg http://www.lib.vt.edu/subject-guides/HIST/primary-us-history.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/E/early-english-books-online-from-chadwyck-healey.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/E/S_eebo.jpg" alt="Early English Books Online" height="195px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search?SCREEN=search_advanced.htx" title="Early English Books Online from Chadwick" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search?SCREEN=search_advanced.htx')" shape="rect">Early English Books Online from Chadwick</a> </span></h2><p><i>Early English Books Online</i> contains scanned page images (GIF and TIFF) of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Coverages includes all subject areas with strong coverage in the humanities, performing arts, and education. Each is full-text searchable. Limited to <span class="majax-erm-concurrentusers" title="e1000275"> </span> simultaneous users. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000275"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/E/early-english-books-online-from-chadwyck-healey.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/E/early-english-books-online-from-chadwyck-healey.html Ebook packages Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users Screencast tutorials available Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/E/eighteenth-century-collections-online-ecco-from-gale.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/E/S_ecco.jpg" alt="Eighteenth Century Collections Online" height="162px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/gale/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a></div><h2><span> <a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/start.do?prodId=ECCO&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi" title="Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO from Gale" target="_blank" class="vt_link_blank, vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/start.do?prodId=ECCO&amp;userGroupName=viva_vpi')" shape="rect">Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO from Gale</a> </span></h2><p><i>ECCO</i> provides full-text books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides, directories, Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements in HTML and PDF. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000735"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/E/eighteenth-century-collections-online-ecco-from-gale.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/E/eighteenth-century-collections-online-ecco-from-gale.html Ebook packages Music recordings and scores Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/N/S_newsbank.jpg" alt="Newsbank Readex" height="103px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX" title="America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX')" shape="rect">America's Historical Imprints from Newsbank-Readex</a> </span></h2><p><em>America's Historical Imprints</em> 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. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000847"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html">Full record</a></p> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:42:00 -0500 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-imprints.html Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Governance Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-newspapers-from-newsbank-readex.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/N/S_newsbank.jpg" alt="Newsbank Readex" height="103px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX" title="America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 from Newsbank Readex" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX')" shape="rect">America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 from Newsbank Readex</a> </span></h2><p>Cover-to-cover reproductions of 1,000+ US newspapers in PDF. Restrict searches to dates/eras, article types (news &amp; opinion, election returns, letters, poetry/songs, legislative, prices, advertisements, matrimony &amp; death notices), region/state, and newspaper name. Includes the digital versions of the <i>Early American Newspapers</i> microforms collection, <i>African American Newspapers 1827-1998</i>, and a collection of Virginia newspapers (labeled Selected Historical Newspapers). <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000423"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-newspapers-from-newsbank-readex.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/americas-historical-newspapers-from-newsbank-readex.html Article searching Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Reports, standards, and financials Reviews and critiques Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/proquest-historical-periodicals.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/P/S_proquest.gif" alt="ProQuest search screen" height="134px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/proquest/index.html"><img alt="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_screencast.gif" title="Screencast tutorials available for this resource" width="20" /></a> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="database provides Get VText links" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif" title="database provides Get VText links" width="80" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTE0NGQrM2IwNCszNmZiKzFhY2QmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&amp;clie ntId=8956" title="ProQuest Historical Periodicals" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTE0NGQrM2IwNCszNmZiKzFhY2QmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&amp;clie ntId=8956')" shape="rect">ProQuest Historical Periodicals</a> </span></h2><p><i>ProQuest Historical Periodicals</i> indexes citations and full text of 200 years of American magazines and journals and important newspapers of record. 1740-2007. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000296"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/proquest-historical-periodicals.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/P/proquest-historical-periodicals.html Newspapers and magazines Reviews and critiques Restricted to Virginia Tech users Screencast tutorials available Contents of database in Summon Get VText http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/H/harpweek-the-civil-war-era-and-reconstruction-I-and-II-1857-1877.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/H/S_harpweek.jpg" alt="Harp Week" height="147px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_viva.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="36" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://app.harpweek.com/" title="HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I &amp; II (1857-1877)" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://app.harpweek.com/')" shape="rect">HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I &amp; II (1857-1877)</a> </span></h2><p>Browse, search, and retrieve full page images of <em>Harper's Weekly</em>, which chronicles the events of the American Civil War and reconstruction years. Page images are JPG; full text is HTML and PDF. <i>Harper’s Weekly</i> is a consistent, comprehensive, week-to-week chronological record of what happened worldwide in the last half of the nineteenth century. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000152"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/H/harpweek-the-civil-war-era-and-reconstruction-I-and-II-1857-1877.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/H/harpweek-the-civil-war-era-and-reconstruction-I-and-II-1857-1877.html Article searching Countries and cultures Handbooks and manuals Multimedia Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Restricted to Virginia Tech users VIVA http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-history-in-video-from-alexander-street-press.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_alexander-street-press-videos.jpg" alt="Alexander Street Press videos" height="133px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_viva.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="36" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/" title="American History in Video from Alexander Street Press" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/')" shape="rect">American History in Video from Alexander Street Press</a> </span></h2><p><i>American History in Video</i> provides streaming Flash videos covering American history, most with transcripts. It includes programs from the History Channel, A&amp;E, and Biography Channel, plus documentaries, newsreels, and archival footage. Users who establish profiles can create playlists of videos and video clips with persistent URLs to include in course pages. Video coverage from 1492 to late 20th century. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000904"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-history-in-video-from-alexander-street-press.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-history-in-video-from-alexander-street-press.html Multimedia Restricted to Virginia Tech users VIVA http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/L/S_LoC-am.jpg" alt="Library of Congress" height="116px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="Gold open access - publishing" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_open-access-gold.gif" title="Gold open access - publishing" width="14" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" title="American Memory from the Library of Congress" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html')" shape="rect">American Memory from the Library of Congress</a> </span></h2><p><i>American Memory</i> 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.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-memory-from-the-library-of-congress.html Catalogs (about publications) Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Newspapers and magazines Poetry and short stories Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon Gold open access: publishing http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-journeys.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_americanjourneys.jpg" alt="American Journeys" height="190px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.americanjourneys.org/search.asp" title="American Journeys" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.americanjourneys.org/search.asp')" shape="rect">American Journeys</a> </span></h2><p>American Journeys indexes the full text of more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. Includes more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives. 1000s-1840s</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-journeys.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/american-journeys.html Catalogs (about publications) Countries and cultures Multimedia Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/W/women-and-social-movements-in-the-united-states-1600-2000.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/W/S_women-soc-move.gif" alt="Women and Social Movements" height="135px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://wasm.alexanderstreet.com" title="Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://wasm.alexanderstreet.com')" shape="rect">Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000</a> </span></h2><p><i>Women and Social Movements in the US</i> indexes citations and full text of primary documents and archives; book, film, and website reviews; teaching tools; a directory of organizations; and a chronology of women's history. 1745-present.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000142"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/W/women-and-social-movements-in-the-united-states-1600-2000.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/W/women-and-social-movements-in-the-united-states-1600-2000.html Catalogs (about publications) Countries and cultures Music recordings and scores Reports, standards, and financials Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oral-history-online-from-alexander-street-press.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/A/S_alexander-street-press.jpg" alt="Alexander Street Press" height="145px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/orhilive" title="Oral History Online from Alexander Street Press" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/orhilive')" shape="rect">Oral History Online from Alexander Street Press</a> </span></h2><p><i>Oral History Online</i> is both an index of full-text interviews and other oral history narratives and free oral history information online. The narratives cover diverse subjects, including civil rights and race relations, labor history, African American history, women's history, immigration studies, political history, American Indian history, regional history, and more. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000141"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oral-history-online-from-alexander-street-press.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oral-history-online-from-alexander-street-press.html Countries and cultures Multimedia Narratives, diaries, and letters Restricted to Virginia Tech users http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/chronicling-america-historic-american-newspapers-from-the-library-of-congress.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/L/S_LoC-am.jpg" alt="Library of Congress" height="116px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/" title="Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/')" shape="rect">Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress</a> </span></h2><p>Allows searching and viewing newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and finding information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Full-text newspapers from Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington are currently available.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/chronicling-america-historic-american-newspapers-from-the-library-of-congress.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/C/chronicling-america-historic-american-newspapers-from-the-library-of-congress.html Catalogs (about publications) Newspapers and magazines Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/M/making-of-america-from-cornell-university.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/M/S_moa.jpg" alt="Making of America" height="207px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?xc=1&amp;page=simple&amp;g=moagrp" title="Making of America from Cornell University" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?xc=1&amp;page=simple&amp;g=moagrp')" shape="rect">Making of America from Cornell University</a> </span></h2><p><i>Making of America</i> provides digital reproductions of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure. Content is provided in text, GIF, and PDF formats. Major segments of this collection include magazines, ebooks, and Civil War documents. 1840-1900.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/M/making-of-america-from-cornell-university.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/M/making-of-america-from-cornell-university.html Ebook packages Ejournal packages Newspapers and magazines Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/M/making-of-america-from-the-university-of-michigan.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/M/S_moa.jpg" alt="Making of America" height="207px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl" title="Making of America from the University of Michigan" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl')" shape="rect">Making of America from the University of Michigan</a> </span></h2><p><i>Making of America</i> (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Content is available in text, GIF, and PDF formats. 1840-1900.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/M/making-of-america-from-the-university-of-michigan.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/M/making-of-america-from-the-university-of-michigan.html Ebook packages Ejournal packages Newspapers and magazines Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/documenting-the-american-south-docsouth.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/D/S_docsouth.jpg" alt="Documenting the American South" height="128px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html" title="Documenting the American South (DocSouth)" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html')" shape="rect">Documenting the American South (DocSouth)</a> </span></h2><p>A digital publishing initiative that provides online access to primary sources such as texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently <i>DocSouth</i> includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, maps, literary works, oral history interviews, and songs. 1500s-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/documenting-the-american-south-docsouth.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/D/documenting-the-american-south-docsouth.html Countries and cultures Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Freely accessible databases Poetry and short stories