Subject coverage includes:
- Art, Architecture, Music
- Books and Publishing
- Business, Agriculture, Industry
- Ethnic Groups
- Family and Society
- History and Description
- Language, Literature, Law, Politics and Government
- Religion and Philosophy
- Revolutionary War
- Science and Medicine
EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.
This collection includes digitized images of American magazines and journals never before available outside the walls of the AAS, and is not available for acquisition in digital form from any other source. More than 7,600 periodicals comprised of over seven million pages are available, eclipsing all other online resources in this area. The collection is available in five series:
Series 1 (1691-1820) Read More...
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 presents more than 500 titles dating from 1691 through 1820. Almost every 17th- and 18th-century American title is represented in addition to the majority of works published before 1821.
Subject strengths include:
- Afro-Americana
- Agriculture
- Children's literature
- Education
- Eighteenth-century imprints
- Leisure and hobbies
- Masonic works
- Medicine
- Religion
- Science
- Technology
- The Trades
- Women's literature
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Series 2 (1821-1837) Read More...
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 presents over 1,000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope including agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.
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Series 3 (1838-1852) Read More...
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Series 3 reveals a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities.
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Series 4 (1853-1865) Read More...
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4 presents over 1,200 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. While the Civil War is a key focal point of Series 4, it also features a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront is found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in Series 1-3 (e.g., science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion).
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Series 5 (1866-1877) Read More...
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 contains over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. Themes presented reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set of circumstances—the aftermath of a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life, a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories, and much more. Series 5 coverage of broad subject areas reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, fashion, family life, politics, education and religion.
Title Lists:
September 24, 1842
May 1, 1770
January 1, 1807