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

[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks for the suggestions, Dave; let me return the favor with my own suggestions.  I'm a major consultant to the Gale company, so I won't argue against Gale as a go-to database.  America's Historical Newspapers is great for early Americana.  The ProQuest cross-searching is enormously powerful.  But you're really missing out if you don't include Newspapers.com as one of your go-to databases.  For newspapers, Newspapers.com is more powerful than ProQuest, Readex, and Gale combined.

Fred Shapiro


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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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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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