TRIALS: EBSCO Digital Archives

FIU Libraries now has trials to several Ebsco Digital Archives Collections!

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1:
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“American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 presents more than 500 titles dating from 1691 through 1820. Almost every 17^th- and 18^th-century American title is represented in addition to the majority of works published before 1821.”

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2:
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“American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 presents over 1,000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope including agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.”

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3:
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“American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Series 3 reveals a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities.”

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4:
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“American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4 presents over 1,200 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. While the Civil War is a key focal point of Series 4, it also features a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront is found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in Series 1-3 (e.g., science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion).”

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5:
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“American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 contains over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. Themes presented reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set of circumstances—the aftermath of a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life, a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories, and much more. Series 5 coverage of broad subject

 areas reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, fashion, family life, politics, education and religion.”

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1:
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“Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 consists of historical books, pamphlets, newspapers and documents created by and relating to the Hispanic, or Latino, peoples of the United States. It contains a broad selection of materials that have emerged from the major cultural periods and trends of Hispanic life: from colonization of North America to the struggles for independence from Spain, to U.S. expansionism into historically Hispanic lands to civil wars, revolutions and political movements against authoritarian governments in the Hemisphere.”

The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers: Series #2
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“The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers presents thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers –including rare anarchist newspapers – are presented in their original form. Extensive manuscript collections of both organizations and individuals are included for viewing, indexed for ease of search and maximum discovery. This collection offers a unique approach, focusing exclusively on the Latino-Hispanic history in the United States.”

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