Friday, June 13, 2008

Online Source for Nineteenth Century Magazines

A number of full-text magazines are available online as part of a project called "The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals." This is part of the larger American Memory Project initiated by the Library of Congress and the National Digital Library Program.

Here is a description of this collection from the Web site:

"The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals represents a special collaboration among the Library of Congress and the libraries of the University of Michigan and Cornell University to make accessible a wide-ranging digital library of nineteenth-century American printed materials. It will comprise [of] primary documents of American history reflecting the broad domains of social and political history, education, psychology, sociology, religion, and science and technology as they developed throughout the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras (1850-77). The collection also has special riches to offer readers interested in such areas as the nation's westward expansion, its poetry, the growth of professional forestry and landscape design, or Americans' abiding fascination with self-improvement."

The titles available on the University of Michigan Web site are:

American Jewess 1895 - 1899 (hosted on behalf of the Jewish Women's Archive)
Appleton's 1869 - 1881 (2 series)
Catholic World 1865 - 1901
DeBow's 1846 - 1869 + 1952 index (3 series)
Garden and Forest 1888 - 1897 (hosted on behalf of the Library of Congress)
Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers 1880-1891
Ladies Repository 1841 - 1876 (3 series)
The Old Guard 1864
Overland Monthly 1868 - 1900 (2 series)
Princeton Review 1831 - 1882 (3 series)
Southern Literary Messenger 1835 - 1864 + 1936 Contributor index
Southern Quarterly Review 1842 - 1857 (3 series)
Vanity Fair 1860 - 1862

The titles available on the Cornell University site are:

The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
The Century (1881 - 1899)
The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
The Living Age (1844 - 1900)
Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
New Englander (1843 - 1892)
The North American Review (1815 - 1900)
The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
Punchinello (1870)
Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)

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