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Database Description

Database:

American Periodicals Series

Available from:

Proquest

Coverage:

1740-1940

Description:

Full text articles from more than 1,000 American magazines and journals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900. Publications include general-interest magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, abolitionist journals, and many others. Significant about the collection is that it includes articles written about historical events as they happened, as well as the original serialized publication of literature from writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe.

Notes:

Off-campus access is available only to current UHD students, faculty, and staff.
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