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American History & Culture Online:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

Discover rich resources that bring American history to lifeBased on the well-known Biblioteca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time by Joseph Sabin

Offers a comprehensive, up-close glimpse of life in the Western Hemisphere from the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century to the early decades of the 20th century.

More than 29,000 full-text primary source documentsCovers a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean

Offers comprehensive coverage of the following:

• Discovery and Exploration of the Americas

• Reconstruction • Slavery• Immigration• Constitution• Politics

• Civil War• Native Americans• Women in America• Colonization• Growth of cities and states… and more

• EXAMPLE COURSE: Anthropology – Peoples and Cultures of Native Latin AmericaIntroduction to the ethnology of native Latin America outlining the history and lifeways of the indigenous peoples of the region. Indigenous culture, and change and resistance to European colonialism from the pre-Columbian through modern periods.

Your search (Keyword=New Spain and Indian*) returned the following results: 58.

• Casas, Bartolomé de las. Popery truly display’d in its bloody colours, or, A faithful narrative of the horrid and unexampled massacres, butcheries, and all manner of ... London, 1689. 86pp.

• Ulloa, Antonio de. A voyage to South America : describing at large, the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent : undertaken by command of ... 3rd ed. / to which are added, by Mr. John Adams... occasional notes and observations... Volume 1. London, 1772. 506pp. 2 vols.

• Clavigero, Francesco Saverio. The history of Mexico : collected from Spanish and Mexican historians ... Volume 2. London, 1787. 466pp. 2 vols.

American History & Culture Online:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

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• EXAMPLE COURSE: History – African-American History to 1865History of blacks in America from their African origins to 1965. Emphasis on early African society, American slavery, and the development of black institutions and culture in the U.S.

Your search (Keyword=slave life) returned the following results: 34.

• Conder, Josiah. Wages or the whip : an essay on the comparative cost and productiveness of free and slave labour. London, 1833. 95pp.

• Weld, Theodore Dwight. American slavery as it is : testimony of a thousand witnesses. New York, 1839. 224pp.

• Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Dublin, 1845. 143pp.

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s cabin. Volume 1. Leipzig, 1852. 361pp. 2 vols.

American History & Culture Online:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

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American History & Culture Online:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

• EXAMPLE COURSE: Women’s Studies – Saints, Witches, and MadwomenImage of the madwoman throughout European and American history. Emphasis on how women on the margins have been labeled in different periods as saintly, as witches, or as insane.

Your search (Keyword=witch*) returned the following results: 237.

• Mather, Increase. Cases of conscience concerning evil spirits personating men, witchcrafts, infallible proofs of guilt in such as are accused with that crime : all ... Boston, 1693. 81pp.

• R. C. (Richard Chamberlayne). Lithobolia, or, The stone-throwing devil : being an exact and true account (by way of journal) of the various actions of infernal spirits, or ... London, 1698. 18pp.

• Boulton, Richard. A compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft. London, 1715-1716. 536pp.

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Mather, Cotton. The wonders of the invisible world : being an account of the tryals of several vvitches

, lately excuted [!] in New England : and of several ... Printed first, at Bostun [!]

in New-England, 1693. 112pp.

• EXAMPLE COURSE: English – Introduction to Early American LiteratureThis course is a chronological survey of literary works written in America that begins with the Native American origin and creation stories and concludes with some of the poetry of Walt Whitman. The intention is to provide a broad overview of what constitutes American literature from its origins to the end of the Civil War.

Your search (Keyword=Uncle Tom's Cabin) returned the following results: 32.

• Smith, W. L. G. (William L. G.). Life at the South, or, "Uncle Tom’s cabin" as it is : being narratives, scenes and incidents in the real "Life of the lowly". Buffalo, 1852. 517pp.

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly. Volume 1. Boston [Mass.]; (Boston), 1852. 311pp. 2 vols.

• Stearns, Edward J. (Edward Josiah). Notes on Uncle Tom’s cabin : being a logical answer to its allegations and inferences against slavery as an institution : with a supplementary ... Philadelphia, 1853. 337pp.

American History & Culture Online:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

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