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Research by Subject: History & Historical Documents

BU Licensed Databases [access restrictions]

• Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) [BU]
• Early English Books Online [BU]
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online [BU]
• Historical Abstracts [BU]
• JSTOR [BU]
• New York Times Historical (1857-1922) [BU]
• New York Times Historical (1923-2009) [BU]
• Nineteenth Century Masterfile, Series I [BULaw]

Free Internet Resources

• The Abraham Lincoln Papers (Library of Congress)
• Google Books
• Harvard Digital Collections
• The James Madison Collection (Library of Congress)
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Library of Congress Digital Manuscript Collection
• Oxford Digital Library
• Slaves and the Courts (1740-1860) (Library of Congress)
• The Thomas Jefferson Papers (Library of Congress)
• U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates (1774-1875) (Library of Congress)

Research Guides

• Primary Sources (Mugar)
• United States History (Mugar)

Research Portals

• American Constitutional Legal History
• English Legal History

Related Subjects

• Legal History

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