Databases and Websites

• Accessible Archives (Accessible Archives, Inc.)  
  This resource includes text from historical periodicals and books including eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records. Collections include but are not limited to African American Newspapers, The Civil War Collection, The Pennsylvania Gazette, South Carolina Newspapers, Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1898, the Lily, and The Virginia Gazette.
• Elephind  
  Seeks to make it possible to search all the world’s online historic newspapers from one place. It is in development. Use it to search historic digitized newspaper archives from around the globe. Elephind.com is focused on only historical, digitized newspapers. You can search, for free, across many newspaper sites simultaneously, rather than having to visit each site separately. Collections include: Trove [National Library of Australia], California Digital Newspaper Collection [UC Riverside], Chronicling America [US Library of Congress], Indiana Digital Historic Newspaper Program (Indiana State Library), and The Portal to Texas History.
• American Doctoral Dissertations, 1933-1955    
  Provides electronic access to Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, the comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities during that time period. Containing twenty-two years of dissertation research and amounting to nearly 100,000 citations, it was created with the support of the H. W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston.