Stonecoast MFA - Library Resources: Historic and Primary Sources

Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides full-text digital access to nearly every book, directory, bible, sheet music, sermon, pamphlet or broadside published in the United Kingdom during the 18th century.

American Periodicals Series Online includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the 1950s. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure.

Ancestry Library is a history and genealogy resource that includes more than 7,000 databases with billions of historical records on individuals, families, and places. Sources include censuses, vital records (birth, death, marriage), immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, and maps. Countries for which data is available include the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, China, and many more.

Chronicling America allows you to search American newspapers published between 1690-present. Availability of full text PDF images varies.

Making of America (Cornell) 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.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography is a searchable archive of the WPA Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, which hired field workers to collect the life histories of former slaves. Transcripts for 2,000 interviews, from seventeen states are accessible.

Select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

Slavery and Abolition in the US provides access to select publications of the 1800s as a digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century.

19th Century Collections Online focuses on primary source collections including a variety of content types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more from the UK.

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the Library of Congress' collections of the Geography and Map Division. The collection includes data from over 30 states, and selected parts of Canada, & Mexico.