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  • American Broadsides and Ephemera

    Includes fully searchable facsimiles of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900. Broadsides and ephemera were an affordable way for many 18th- and 19th-century Americans to express their views, share news, or distribute their writings publicly. Nearly every town had a newspaper printer, and these printers kept their presses busy creating inexpensive material like broadsides, trade cards, billheads and ballads.

  • American Civil War : the International Context

    The American Civil War: The International Context brings together European historical sources that illuminate the involvement of the continent in the history of the Civil War in America—their internal discussions, their reactions to approaches by Union or Confederate representatives, the challenges and advantages that the American conflict brought to their borders and shores, as well as its impact on their own internal politics and society. Providing a multilayered set of primary sources, the European diplomatic correspondence regarding the American Civil War, including such from Britain, Denmark, and the Netherlands, is complemented by papers of cotton merchants and shipbuilders, papers of Union and Confederate supporters, and letters home from Europeans who enlisted in the War. Alongside these, the archive includes two newspapers published in London during the conflict to garner support for each side: The Index and The London American, which are cross-searchable.

  • American Civil War Letters and Diaries

    The current release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. Particular care has been taken to index this material so it can be searched more thoroughly than ever. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The product includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter.

  • American Committee on Africa

    Explore the records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) which chart the organization's involvement in African liberation struggles in the twentieth century. This rich source material documents the ACOA's work to inform the American public on African issues, expand US solidarity with liberation movements throughout Africa, and work with leaders and activists across Africa to drive political change. The collection covers a wide range of intersecting themes, from social justice, civil rights, and decolonization, to US anti-apartheid movements and Africa during the Cold War.

  • American Community Survey

    The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide communities a fresh look at how they are changing. It is a critical element in the Census Bureau's reengineered decennial census program. The ACS collects and produces population and housing information every year instead of every ten years.

  • American Drama, 1714-1915

    Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.

  • American Economic Association (AEA) Journals

    JHU has access to the full text of 7 American Economic Association journals. They are: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives.

  • American Enterprise Institute

    The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) was founded in 1938 for the purpose of "bringing about a greater public knowledge and understanding of the social and economic advantages accruing to the American people through the maintenance of the system of free, competitive enterprise." A public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., AEI scholars conduct original research that advocates for free enterprise and focuses on the world economy, U.S. foreign policy and international security, and domestic political and social issues. Notable past AEI scholars and affiliates include President Gerald Ford, Robert Bork, Ronald Coase, Newt Gingrich, Milton Friedman, Roscoe Pound, and Antonin Scalia. Today, AEI scholars produce a variety of works, including books, working papers, journal publications and op-eds, video content for their YouTube channel, and several podcast series.

  • American Historical Periodicals From the American Antiquarian Society

    The collection includes unusual and short-lived magazines as well as better-known titles with long runs. Early periodicals in the collection focus on colonial life and the growing tensions between colonists and their oversea rulers leading up to the American Revolution. Common themes depicted in antebellum periodicals reveal a rapidly growing young nation where industrialization, western expansion, and regional political differences were a daily reality for many Americans. The Civil War and Reconstruction eras are well represented, documenting the conflict and its aftermath from a variety of perspectives and allowing readers to bear witness to this pivotal period in American history. Early twentieth-century titles document the second Industrial Revolution, immigration, women's rights, and World War I, as well as fashion and music during the Roaring Twenties.

  • American History Collection (Rotunda)

    Collections of documentary editions spanning three centuries, from the earliest surviving writings of George Washington through the presidential correspondence of Woodrow Wilson: more than 20 publications with content from over 550 letterpress and born-digital volumes, for a total of nearly 300,000 documents, diary entries, and editorial essays, all cross-searchable. Includes:

    • People of the Founding Era
    • Presidential Recordings Digital Edition
    • Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney & Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition
    • Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
    • Papers of James Madison Digital Edition
    • Adams Papers Digital Edition
    • Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America
    • Papers of Woodrow Wilson Digital Edition
    • Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
    • Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
    • Diaries of Gouverneur Morris Digital Edition
    • Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
    • Papers of Alexander Hamilton Digital Edition
    • Papers of Andrew Johnson
    • Papers of Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen
    • Papers of Daniel Webster
    • Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition
    • Papers of Andrew Jackson
    • Dolley Madison Digital Edition
    • Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
    • Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition
    • Correspondence of James K. Polk
    • Papers of James Monroe Digital Edition
    • Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
    • Letters of Benjamin Rush

  • American History, 1493-1945

    This unique collection documents American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century. It is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the finest archives available for the study of American History. Collections included are: Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859, and Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945

  • American Institute of Physics (AIP) ebooks collections

    The inaugural collection of books includes 40 titles that span the physical sciences and offers scientists, researchers, and students tools that help them advance in their current field and learn about a new field.

  • American Meteorological Society Journals

    Provides full-text access, searching, and early online releases of papers in the 11 journals published by the American Meteorological Society. Updated weekly.

  • American National Biography Online

    The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation. The American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years.

  • American National Election Studies (ANES)

    The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.

  • American Periodicals

    This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.

  • American Poetry

    Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

  • American Prison Newspapers 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside

    American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

  • American Prison Writing Archive

    The Archive is built on the belief that incarcerated people are always the leading experts on practices and policy of legal confinement’s effects. They can offer a generative index of state and civil society’s (mis)managing of criminal legal systems and public safety. APWA writers are spokespeople for the challenges, aspirations, hopes, and enduring resistance and resilience of imprisoned people.

  • American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam, Global Perspectives, 1946-1975

    Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.