ENG 101: College English I

Updated every day, America’s News provides the most current information for over 3,700 U.S. news sources from all 50 states.  Includes access to over 80 Virginia news sources, including the Virginian-Pilot, Richmond Times-Dispatch and many more.

**This collection of resources uses the previous EBSCOhost interface. This notice will be removed when the new interface is available for this collection. 12/17/2024**

This collection from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) contains five series of full-text periodicals covering all aspects of American life.

• Series 1 (1691 - 1820): Presents over 500 titles from 1691 through 1820. Representing over two centuries of print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic.
• Series 2 (1821 - 1837): Presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. The subject matter covered in Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history. It is broad in scope and includes coverage of agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.
• Series 3 (1838 - 1852): Presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. The themes presented in Series 3 reveal a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities.
• Series 4 (1853 - 1865): Presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, there is also a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war.
• Series 5 (1866 - 1877): Presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. The themes presented in Series 5 reflect a nation following the Civil War, emancipation, and westward expansion.

Featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Black Freedom Struggle in the United States contains over 3,000 documents focused on six different phases: Slavery and Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860), Civil War and Reconstruction Era (1861-1877), Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932), New Deal and World War II (1933-1945), Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975), Contemporary Era (1976-2000s).

Archives Unbound includes more than 20 collections of primary source documents related to the Civil Rights Movement.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries covering the history of the slave trade. The collection is made up of four parts:

• Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition
• Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
• Part III: The Institution of Slavery
• Part IV: Age of Emancipation

Historical newspaper archive covering 1916 - 2003.

History Vault: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle contains the following collections:

• NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files; 
• NAACP Papers: Branch Files and Youth Department Files; 
• NAACP Papers: Special Subjects; 
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment and Armed Forces; 
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files; 
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses.