Historical Sources
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British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
This resource offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. The library's account includes all four collections released by ProQuest as of 2019.
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American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
The American Periodicals Series brings the early days of U.S. history alive through more than 7,000,000 digitized page images from over 1,000 periodicals spanning 200 years. The wide variety of content ranges from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, first published in 1741, to literary and professional journals, specialized titles, and such well-known magazines as Vanity Fair, Ladies' Home Journal, Scientific American, and The Dial.
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Gale: Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Gale Primary Sources brings the thoughts, words, and actions of past centuries into the present for a comprehensive research experience. The platform has been thoughtfully designed to help students and researchers examine literary, political, and social culture of the last 500 years. The University of Nebraska's account includes access to 40 primary source databases.
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New York Times website for UNO This link opens in a new window
UNO students, faculty, and staff are eligible for a personal account for the online New York Times. Click here to login through your library account to validate your eligibility, and then set up a New York Times account using your unomaha.edu email address as your username.
A UNO account includes access to the TimesMachine, the scanned archive extending back to 1851. Click into the menu at the upper left of the NYT homepage and then click "More" and then "TimesMachine."
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Hathi Trust Digital LibraryOver 850,000 volumes in public domain! Most of the volumes are full-text, however, there are some that are only searchable and lack full-text.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
Over 60,000 biographical articles spanning the history of the British Isles. The primary and authoritative reference work of its kind. Supports 2-3 simultaneous users.
Historical Criticism/Reviews Books
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The Year's Work in English Studies byNarrative bibliographical reviews of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English. Available online or in Reference PE58 .E6
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Poole's index to periodical literature. Abridged ed., covering the contents of thirty-seven important periodicals, 1815-99Call Number: Reference AI3 .P71 1901
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The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals byCall Number: Z2005 .H6To find reviews of a specific book scan the entries beginning with the publication year of the book.
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Annual bibliography of English language and literatureCall Number: Reference PE10 .A56Library owns v.12-v.13, v.31-v.48, v.50-current. The Bibliography aims to list annually all scholarly articles, books and reviews concerning English language and literature and related topics published anywhere in the world, and in any language.
British Library
Finding Historical Papers
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ArchiveGridArchiveGrid gives researchers access to finding aids for collections. "Archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives are represented in ArchiveGrid."