A resource for studying the development of Western society and international relations within the Caribbean. Covers topics such as colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations as far back as the early 18th century.
Books, pamphlets, and broadsides. Includes Supplements from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Antiquarian Society.
Explore America's past through newspapers. The Libraries subscribe to Series 1, Series 3, Series 10, Series 12, and Series 13.
Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1470 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection.
Digitized collections from libraries and archives around the world, including the British Library.
A partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field. Covers the theory, method, and the history of American literature
Original digital scholarship and newly digitized critical and documentary editions. Click Additional Info below for a list of the American History and Literature & Culture collections included in Rotunda.
American History Collection
Literature and Culture Collection
International books, pamphlets, serials and other documents published from 1500 to the early 1900's, providing original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more.
Documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624.
Periodicals covering colonial life, the American Revolution, the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and events in the early twentieth century. Includes unusual and short-lived magazines as well as better-known titles with long runs.
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