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Articles

America: History and Life
Indexes history journals and some other publications covering the US and Canada.

Art Full Text
Indexes more than 400 key international arts periodicals.   Subject coverage includes, art, art history, archaeology, architecture, design, photography, and other arts related fields.  Full text from 1997 onward is available for select publications.

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Art Index Retrospective
A companion to Art Full Text, this database provides citations to older articles published between 1929 - 1984 in international arts periodicals. 

Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

Index to Nineteenth Century American Art PeriodicalsCall Number: Reference N 6510 .S35 1999
This two volume set indexes about 40 American art periodicals that were published during the 19th century.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

Primary Sources

America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text collection of over 1000 U.S. historical newspapers.  Divided into three collections: Series I (1690-1876), Series II (1758-1900), Series III (1829-1922).  Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.

American Memory
American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819.
Full-text access to a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets, and broadsides from the early 1800s, based on Ralph R. Shaw's and Richard H. Shoemaker's "American Bibliography, 1801-1819.  Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.

Making of America - Cornell University
Making of America  is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Making of America at University of Michigan is a couterpart to this collection.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Readers' Guide Retrospective.
Use this to identify articles published in popular interest magazines from 1890-1984.

Smithsonian Archive of American Art
A digitized collection of papers of artists and other archival material from the Archives of American Art including  letters, postcards, sketches, exhibition records, diaries, and other unique documents. The collection also includes transcripts of interviews with artists, collectors, gallery directors, and art historians.