Transatlantic Literature 1500-1800

Find biographies of over 17,400 deceased men and women who made significant contributions to building the United States. This subscription provides for use by one person at a time.

The OED traces a word's development in the English language from its date of introduction to the present. Contains current meanings and includes etymologies and historical quotations.

Historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods.

"This bibliography tries to bring together all manuscripts and editions of John Milton's works and all studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799."