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America's Historical NewspapersUWG Funding
Early American Newspaper Series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7, 1690-1922 and The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction, 1843-1877

America: History & LifeUWG Funding
Index to articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): History E-Book ProjectUWG Funding
An online collection of nearly 2,000 high-quality books from 250 publishers. ACLS provides information on Women’s Studies, Literature, Science/Technology, Political Science, Religion, and historical studies of diverse ethnicities.

American Periodicals Series (APS) OnlineUWG Funding
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. aka APS Online.

American State Papers, 1789-1838UWG Funding
U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 through 1838. Primary material on early American history; every legislative and executive document of the first fourteen U.S. Congresses; speeches and messages of Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; essential complement to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980.

Ancestry Library EditionGALILEO Funding
Formerly called AncestryPlus, this is a collection of databases, records, and advice on genealogical research.

Annals of American HistoryGALILEO Funding
Full text of over 2000 primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, landmark court decisions, and cultural criticism. The resource also has multimedia files, including more than 500 pictures and hundreds of video and audio clips of famous speeches. This chronicle may be explored year by year using a timeline dating from 1493 to 2002, browsed by author or topic, or searched by keyword.

Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917GALILEO Funding
Covering city activities and finances, statistics, trade, city ordinances.

ArchiveGridGALILEO Funding
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world. ArchiveGrid is an online service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.

ArchivesUSA (Chadwyck-Healey)GALILEO Funding
Index to the holdings for 4500 U.S. manuscript repositories.

Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding AidsGALILEO Funding
Guides to archival and manuscript collections held by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History, a special library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. The library's primary source materials document the experiences of African-Americans in Atlanta, the Southeastern region, and throughout the nation.

Baldy Editorial Cartoons: The Clifford H. Baldowski CollectionGALILEO Funding
Political cartoons on local, national, and international news focusing on Georgia events and persons.

Barnard's Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign, 1866GALILEO Funding
Images of the 61 albumen prints found in early American photographer and member of the Matthew Brady studio, George N. Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign during the Civil War.

Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 CollectionGALILEO Funding
Documents on a violent episode in the history of Georgia race relations.

Columbus Enquirer ArchiveGALILEO Funding
The Columbus Enquirer Archive provides online access to early issues of the Columbus Enquirer ranging from its inception as a weekly newspaper in 1828, through the daily issues of the late nineteenth century.

Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987GALILEO Funding
Jim Alexander's Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center from the Auburn Avenue Research Library. Fifty-five documentary photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center (1975-1989) that capture significant African American- centered cultural and community events in and around the Atlanta-based organization, a brainchild of the late mayor Maynard Jackson.

Cornelius C. Platter Civil War Diary, 1864 - 1865GALILEO Funding
A personal account of Sherman's march through Georgia and north through the Carolinas.

Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862GALILEO Funding
Chronicles Cyrus Franklin Jenkins' experiences as an enlisted man in the Meriwether Volunteers, Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment, during the first year of the war, June 1861 to March 1862.

Digital Library of GeorgiaGALILEO Funding
Gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials.

Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)UWG Funding
Definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)UWG Funding
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this rich primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)UWG Funding
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)UWG Funding
Works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.

Fuente AcademicaGALILEO Funding
Fuente Academica provides full text for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business and economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library and information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.

Georgia Historic BooksGALILEO Funding
Significant 19th and early 20th century books on the culture, history, biography, and literature of the state.

Georgia Historic NewspapersGALILEO Funding
An ongoing project to digitize Georgia newspapers: Cherokee Phoenix; Colored Tribune; Dublin Post.

Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and JohnLinley Image Collections at the Owens LibraryGALILEO Funding
Landscape and Architecture Images from the UGA College of Environment and Design.

Historical AbstractsUWG Funding
Index and abstracts to articles on world history 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).

History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter ReedGALILEO Funding
A historical account from 1885 to 1950.

History Reference CenterGALILEO Funding
A full-text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. More than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, more than 120 history periodicals; 59,640 historical documents; more than 50,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Jimmy Carter Presidential Daily Diary OnlineGALILEO Funding
The official log of the president's activities during his administration.

Joseph Henry Lumpkin Family PapersGALILEO Funding
Letters reflecting family life, local and national society and politics in Athens, Georgia, 1850-1861.

Milledgeville Historic Newspapers ArchiveGALILEO Funding
The Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to eleven newspaper titles published in Milledgeville from 1808 to 1920.

Multi-Subject ResourcesUWG Funding
Be sure to check these. Ingram Library Resources that cover numerous subject areas.

Native American DocumentsGALILEO Funding
Over 2,000 documents and images on the history of Native Americans in the Southeastern U.S., letters, legal proceedings, military orders, and more.

Oxford African American Studies CenterUWG Funding
The Oxford AASC combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)UWG Funding
Periodicals Archive Online is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas.

Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898GALILEO Funding
Photographs people, places, agriculture, family life, and more.

Robert Toombs, Letters to Julia Ann DuBois Toombs, 1850-1867GALILEO Funding
Family correspondence from Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922GALILEO Funding
4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 municipalities. Originally designed for fire insurance assessment, the color-coded maps relate the location and use of buildings, as well as the materials employed in their construction. The maps indicate which city utilities--such as water and fire service--were available.

Sanborn maps for GeorgiaUWG Funding
Sanborn fire insurance maps of Georgia Cities (1867-1970)

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842GALILEO Funding
Over 2,000 documents and images on the history of Native Americans in the Southeastern U.S., letters, legal proceedings, military orders, and more.

Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills: Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940sGALILEO Funding
Primary source materials describing the gold industry in Dahlonega from the 1830s to the 1940s.

U.S. Congressional Serial SetUWG Funding
The bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitute a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, it will consist of about 13,800 volumes and over 12 million pages. Currently contains 15th Congress - 41st Congress, 1st Session, 1817 - 1869 Serial Set Vols. 1 - 1403. aka US Congressional Serial Set

Vanishing GeorgiaGALILEO Funding
Nearly 18,000 photographs from the Georgia Archives documenting over 100 years of the state's history. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes.

Washington Post (1877 - 1991)UWG Funding
The Washington Post (1877-1991) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Topic: newspapers.

World History CollectionGALILEO Funding
Full text for more than 130 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.

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