Research Guides: U. S. History: The Nineteenth Century and the Civil War: Databases

Books and Articles

These databases provide access to secondary source material including scholarly articles, books and book reviews. Access is limited to UT users.

America : History and Life with Full Text
Primary index for U.S. and Canadian history. Indexes articles, book reviews, and dissertations.
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Archive Finder
A current directory of over 5,480 manuscript repositories and more than 132,000 collections of primary source material across the United States.
FirstSearch
Worldcat can be used to search for manuscript collections held by libraries. Limit to archival material by checking the box on the advanced search page.
Databases that can be searched together or separately, include:
Proceedings First
Papers First
Clase Periodica
First Search Worldcat
First Search Worldcat Dissertations & Theses

Eight Centuries
Indexes US and British periodicals from 1786-1925.
C19, The Nineteenth Century Index
Combined index to several resources for U. S. and Britain. Includes books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890-1982.
Limited to 2 simultaneous users.
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