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Sabin Americana,
1500-1926
provides a wealth of research material necessary for intensive studies
of the history of the Western Hemisphere from the arrival of Europeans
on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the start of
the 20th century. It provides access to 29,000 titles (more than 6
million pages of text) and offers original accounts of exploration,
pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native
Americans, slavery and abolition.
Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of
Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present
Time has been heralded as a cornerstone in the study of
the history of the Western Hemisphere.
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
takes the works currently captured from that bibliography
and makes them available online.
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 consists of
works about the Americas published not only in the United States but
from across the globe. This collection of important and many
hard-to-find primary sources opens a window onto the society, politics,
culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions both at home and
abroad that covers a period of more than 400 years. The Sabin
collection consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides and documents from
sermons and political tracts to legislation and literature.
Topics in this vast collection of writings on life in the
Americas include work on:
- American Women — Including works on the education,
civil rights, domestic life and employment of women, as
well as individual biographical studies
- Cities and States — Comprising materials on the
social and political evolution of America’s major cities
and key states such as Boston, New York city, California
and Texas
- Civil War — including a wide array of local,
national and international memoirs, political tracts,
published legislative proceedings, and broadsides that
detail the rise and resolution of this conflict that
tore the United States in two
- Constitution — Documenting through pamphlets,
letters, addresses and essays the early political
organization of the American colonies and framing of the
Constitution
- Discovery & Exploration of the Americas — Containing
works printed from the 16th through 19th centuries about
the discovery and exploration of the Americas with
accounts from British, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Dutch and Danish explorers
- Immigration — Compiling pamphlets, broadsides,
speeches, articles and books that describe immigration
to the Americas during its 400-year modern history
- Native Americans — Including essays, booklets,
treaties, land tracts, congressional speeches, journals
and letters documenting the social attitudes and
dealings with North and South America’s indigenous
populations
- Politics — Consisting of materials that tell the
story of the birth of “campaign literature” during the
18th and 19th centuries
- Reconstruction — Comprising records that describe
the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded
states in the Union after the Civil War
- Slavery — Containing memoirs of life under slavery,
including original speeches, lectures, sermons,
discourses, papers and reports written to the
legislatures across America, pamphlets, reviews of the
day, books and international essays expressing both pro-
and anti-slavery sentiments
For assistance with searching
Sabin Americana, please use the
help icon inside the top menu of the database.
Below are some sample Sabin Americana searches that
can be used as guides for researching topics in various
subject areas:
Sample Search [pdf,
647 KB]
Sample Searches for
English/Literature Studies [pdf,
291 KB]
Sample Searches for History of
Science and Medicine [pdf,
475 KB]
Sample Searches for Latin American
Studies [pdf,
344 KB]
Sample Searches for Religious History
[pdf,
261 KB]
Sample Searches for Women's Studies [pdf,
310 KB]
You may access Sabin Americana from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.
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