Early American Newspapers
Database Description

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Description:

Early American Newspapers features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. For students and scholars of early America, this unique collection -- based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,1690-1820" -- offers an unprecedented look back into the extraordinary history of the United States -- the story of its people, ideals, commerce and everyday life.

Coverage

  • 1690-1922

Information Type:

  • Citations? No
  • Abstracts? No
  • Full Text? Yes

Frequency of Updates:

  • Monthly

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