A vast full-text collection of more than 6,500 historical periodicals published in the United States between 1693 and 1912, documenting the life of America’s people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction and into the early 20th century.

Electronic version of the Harper's Weekly newspaper from 1857 to 1865. 

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject.