Empire Online includes approximately 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed materials.

Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.

Early English Books seeks to be a comprehensive collection of all books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the English language in any country from earliest times through 1700.

This subset of the Literature Online database which features an ever-growing collection of works of poetry with complementary reference resources as well as access to an extensive collection of secondary resources (resources ABOUT these poetic works and the respective poets).

The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.

This portal to newspapers and periodicals c1685-1815 integrates access to esteemed universities' collections. It brings together rare journals illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life.

On completion this unique digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s.

American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.

Includes books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements -- and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. Included are works from women writers of the eighteenth century.

19th Century UK Periodicals is a major multi-part series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world.

For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

Content includes primary sources from the National Archives, the British Library, and other significant institutions. This resource features primarily manuscripts and some monographs.

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.

Current, comprehensive, resources for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world.

Literary criticism and information on authors from several Gale resources including Children’s Literature Review.

Peer-reviewed journals as well as full-text versions of leading university presses and scholarly societies

Indexes and provides access to full text of academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Indexes literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present.

This link will take you to the Motif-Index of Folk Literature Past Masters Database. Choose the Stith Motif-index of folk literature in the title section. This reference tool provides classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends.

100 full text reference sources including: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, among others.