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America: History and Life
A bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Early American Newspapers Series I, 1690-1876
Historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment is a database assembled from hundreds of primary sources that document the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850.

Early English Books Online (1475-1700) is based on the Bell & Howell microfilm collections Early English Books 1475-1640 and Early English Books 1641-1700. The bibliographies behind these collections are the Short Title Catalogues compiled by Pollard and Redgrave (STC I) and Wing (STC II). The later collection also includes the Thomason tracts.

Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) (Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans, 1639 - 1800) is based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and the Early American Imprint Series I. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950 includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters.

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America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 including  Early American Newspapers Series 1 - 5

History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. Clarence SaundersBrigham. Worchester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947.

*Many of the newspapers listed and discussed in this work are available on microfilm in the Early American Newspapers Collection shelved in the Microform Reading Room.

Brigham, Clarence Saunders.  History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.  Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947.
*Located in SML, Reference Z6951 +B75 

The Pennsylvania Gazette (part of Accessible Archives) was published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800. It is often referred to as the national newspapers of the 18th century.

American Periodical Series is a full-text-/full-image resource which contains 1000 magazines published between 1741 and 1900.

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.

Guides to Finding Newspapers as well as a short list of electronic newspaper Indexes and Full-text Databases.

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Lists of Yale's newspaper holdings are available online, at the SML Reference desk, and in the Microtext Center in SML.

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American Newspapers, 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada. Ed. Winifred Gregory. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1967.
Reference Z6945 A48 1967. Also in SML, Andrews Study

Brigham, Clarence Saunders.  History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.  Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947. 
SML, Reference Z6951 +B75 

Newspapers on Microform: United States, 1948-1983. Washington, DC: Library or Congress, 1984.
SML, Reference Desk Z6951 +U469. Also in SML, Reference, Microform Reading Room.

Newspaper Holdings of the Yale University Library is a record of Yale Library holdings of newspapers in microform and paper. This list does not include all of the newspapers to be found in the original, in reprints, or in facsimile in the SML stacks, in the Mudd Library, or in the Beinecke, though it does contain some of this material. Neither does it include all of the Underground Newspaper Collection (Film S618). It does include bound newspapers with a delta classification.

Underground Newspaper Collection (Newspapers on Film S614)
Titles included in the collection are listed in Orbis under Underground Press Collection Listing of Contents
SML, Microform, Reference Z6951 +U53 1963-1985

Internet Sources

Colonial Connecticut Records

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - a Library of Congress exhibition.

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