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Databases for Material Culture

Use RefWorks with Library databases to organize your research, include citations in papers, and create bibliographies.

Indexes and Abstracts

Find articles, book chapters, symposia, disserations, and more on your topic.

Art History, Anthropology, History, Literature

Retrospective Indexes

Interdisciplinary Indexes

Dissertations

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art)
• Oxford English Dictionary
• American National Biography
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
• Reader's Companion to American History
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Images

• ARTstor
• VisualCat
• AP Images
• American Memory
• Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
• Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
• Ad*Access
• PhillyHistory.org
• Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
• Delaware Postcard Collection
• Willard Stewart WPA & HABS Photographs of Delaware
• Visual Arts Data Service (VADS): Collections
• Digital Image Collections - a guide to many digital image collections

Archives and Manuscripts

• American Memory
• ArchiveGrid
• Archives of American Art: The Catalog of the Archives of American Art
• Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Delaware Library
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)

Full-Text Databases and Archives

• JSTOR - back issues of scholarly journals
• Project MUSE - recent issues of scholarly journals
• AnthroSource - the archive of journals and newsletters published by the American Anthropological Association

• America’s Historical Newspapers - 1690s-1922
• New York Times - 1851-2005
• Wall Street Journal - 1889-1992

• Times Digital Archive (The Times, London) - 1785-1985

• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
• Early English Books Online - 1475-1700

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - 1701-1800

• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index   - 19th century

• APS (American Periodical Series) Online - 1741-1900
• British Periodicals - 1680s-1930s
• Harper's Magazine - 1850-present
• HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly) - 1857-1912
• Nation Archive - 1865-present
• The New Yorker - 1925-present

• Making of America - 19th century
  • Making of America (University of Michigan)
  • Making of America (Cornell University)
• The Nineteenth Century in Print (Library of Congress)

• Accessible Archives - 18th and 19th centuries
  Includes:
  • Godey's Lady's Book
  • The Pennsylvania Gazette
  • The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  • African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
  • The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County
  • The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County

• American County Histories to 1900
• Ancestry Library Edition
• Black Studies Center
• Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975
• The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online
• Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition
• Godey's Lady's Book

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial - 1950
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900
• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
• American Civil War Digital Collection

Delawareana & Regional Resources

• Digital Bibliography of Delaware
• Sanborn Maps: Delaware
• American County Histories to 1900
• American Civil War Digital Collection
• Delaware Postcard Collection
• Willard Stewart WPA & HABS Photographs of Delaware
• Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
• The Pennsylvania Gazette
• The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County
• The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County