Other Electronic Resources
Current Harvard students, faculty, staff, and researchers who hold Harvard IDs and PINs may use these electronic resources. Researchers affiliated with other academic institutions may wish to check their librarys' electronic holdings to see if the following e-resources are available:
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
Searchable, full-text database, with digitized page images, of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900.
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
ArchivesUSA
ArchivesUSA contains summary descriptions of over 132,000 archival and manuscript collections in about 5,500 U.S. repositories.
Early American Imprints, Series I 1639-1800
Searchable, full-text database of volumes described in Charles Evans's American Bibliography.
Early American Imprints, Series II 1801-1819
Searchable, full-text database of materials described in Shaw and Shoemaker's American Bibliography.
Early American Newspapers (1690-1876)
Searchable, full-text database of more than 80 early American newspapers, 1690-1876
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digitized versions of books printed in English 1475-1700
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Digital images of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century with full-text searching.
HeinOnline Law Journal Library
Legal journals in full text, high-quality scanned images
Making of Modern Law
Searchable, full-text database of over 21,000 legal treatises from 1800-1926 on British Commonwealth and American law.
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
Searchable, full-text database of books and pamphlets, official and unofficial trial documents and materials, legal transcripts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations from the early seventeenth century to 1926. Almost all of the works reproduced are English language and were published in Great Britain or the United States.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978
Briefs from the final years of the court's fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first 10 years of the court's 15th justice, Warren Earl Burger.
Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850
Searchable, full-text database of 61,000 works on economics and business from 1450 through 1850, many of a legal nature.
New York Times (1851-2001) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 with American State Papers, 1789-1838
Reports, documents and journals of U.S. Congress and Executive Departments.
Wall Street Journal (1890-1987) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Wall Street Journal articles in searchable full text from 1890-1987.
Washington Post (1877-1988) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The Washington Post in searchable full text from 1877-1988.
The following resources are open to the public (many are free):
Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference ShelfThis site provides access to frequently-consulted sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe.
Manorial Documents Register
Part of the UK National Archives, the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) identifies the location of manorial records.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
A fully searchable online edition of accounts of 100,621 criminal trails held at London's central criminal court, April 1674 to October 1834.
WorldCat
WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals.