[Ads-l] Databases for Historical U.S. Searching

[dave@wilton.net]

Gale News Vault has American sources. It's mostly British, but you can filter by country to exclude those.
 
A number of pubs there will also be found in the databases you list, but there are unique ones. Gale has become one of my top three go-to databases (along with ProQuest and American's Historical Newspapers) because of its breadth of coverage.
 
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is another good source. It's another Gale database, so I assume the newspaper coverage overlaps with the News Vault, but it has non-newspaper sources as well, including scans of manuscripts. (Although I've found the manuscript date metadata is unreliable.)
 
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From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 7:40pm
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Subject: [ADS-L] Databases for Historical U.S. Searching



I am trying to do comprehensive searching for a certain phrase in U.S. newspapers or books or periodicals from the 1824-1878 period. I have already searched the following databases:

Newspapers.com
NewspaperArchive
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers
GenealogyBank
Chronicling America
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Fulton History
Accessible Archives
JSTOR
HeinOnline
Google Books
Internet Archive
HathiTrust

Am I missing any U.S. databases from this time-peirod ?

Fred Shapiro


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