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Multidisciplinary database that searches about 100 library databases and the SLU Libraries Catalog. Includes articles published in scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers as well as books and ebooks.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including American Indian Studies journals.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Premium collection provides full-text access to 600+ current, scholarly journals from over 200 university and not-for-profit presses primarily in the areas of humanities and social sciences. Includes Native American and Indigenous Studies journals.

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AAS Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides digital access to 50 thematic series of American magazines and journals published between 1684 and 1912 and collected by the American Antiquarian Society.
Accessible Archives (History Commons) This link opens in a new window
This database brings together diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture from the 1700s and 1800s. Content includes newspapers, magazines, books, and county histories such as African American Newspapers, Godey’s Lady Book, and the Pennsylvania Gazette.
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1780-1925. Collection of primary source materials created during the "long nineteenth century" (late 1700s to early 1900s). Includes books, periodicals, diaries, letters, photographs, maps, sheet music, and more.

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Provides access to approximately 1.8 million pages (over 28 million articles) of primary source newspapers published in the 19th century, which include newspapers from cities and rural areas throughout the United States.
University Wire (Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new window
The only aggregator of college news from around the U.S. Includes daily news stories from 800 colleges around the 50 states.

ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Includes relevant Congressional as well as Executive Branch documents, including reports from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Ethnology, War Department, Congressional Hearings, and more.
ProQuest Legislative Insight This link opens in a new window
Includes legislative histories for selected laws, including some treaties with the Osage. Legislative histories include all congressional documents created in the process of passing the law including: bill text, committee hearings and reports, votes on the floor of Congress, etc.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window
Search reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1994 (15th-103rd Congress). Overlap with ProQuest Congressional, but includes full color scans of original documents.

Bureau of American Ethnology Publications Online
Catalog of Bureau of American Ethology Annual Report and Bulletin contents, along with links to the full text. Some of these are duplicated in the other sources on this page, but are sometimes more easily identified using this source.
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971
A collection within ProQuest History Vault, it features records on American Indians and the American West from the 19th and 20th centuries.

AAS Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides digital access to 50 thematic series of American magazines and journals published between 1684 and 1912 and collected by the American Antiquarian Society. These periodicals document the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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