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Political Cartoons
Accessible Archives at HISTORY COMMONS
History Commons holds the content formerly hosted by Accessible Archives and that provides a comprehensive database of diverse primary resources related to 18th, 19th, and early-20th century American history and culture.
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest offers more than 1,000 fully searchable printed works critical for insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond.
African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle
African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle provides nearly 1,400 fully searchable printed works essential for understanding the African-American struggle for identity from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow.
Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia
Encompassing nearly 400 years, the Afro-American Imprints Collection offers over 12,000 searchable books, pamphlets, and broadsides related to the history of Black life in the Americas from 1535-1922.
Alexander Street Press: Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera
Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera presents the dramatic imagery of nineteenth-century Americana as experienced from the social, military, and political perspectives.
American Engravings to 1820, Catalog of American Engravings
The Catalogue of American Engravings describes engravings from the early eighteenth century through the year 1820.
American Political Prints 1766-1876
Harper's Weekly provides online access to digital images and descriptive text from Bernard Reilly’s annotated catalogue of political cartoons from 1766-1876.
Black Authors 1556-1922
Black Authors, 1556-1922, encompasses over 550 works written by black authors from various regions, including the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The collection covers an extensive range of genres, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, novels, essays, poems, and musical compositions.
Caribbean History and Culture
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920, is an extensive collection of over 1,200 cataloged and searchable items such as books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides, and ephemera related to the Caribbean region.
Digital Paxton
Digital Paxton is a digital collection, critical edition, teaching platform devoted to the 1764 pamphlet war.
Early American Newspapers, Pennsylvania
The Early American Newspapers database provides wide-ranging coverage of historical newspapers from Pennsylvania.
Making of America (MoA)
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Popular Medicine in America
This database shows the development of popular medicine in America during the nineteenth century.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
This educational resource is a digital archive for hundreds of historical images, paintings, lithographs, and photographs illustrating enslaved Africans and their descendants before c. 1900.