WRIT 173: The Novels of Edith Wharton

Full text of Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present in high-resolution color page images. A great resource for studying fashion, beauty standards, or aspects of American and international popular culture.

Searchable full-text facsimiles of over 1,110 American periodicals from colonial times to the turn of the 20th century.

Monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th- and early 20th-century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Primary sources from 19th century to present documenting changing representations and experiences of gender roles and relations, including pamphlets, speeches, newsletters, diaries and correspondence. Visual material includes photographs, illustrations, posters, scrapbooks and objects.

Research collections sourced from the Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections documenting changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender, and sexual behaviors throughout the 20th century.

Popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe, c1779 to 1930

Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals explore the expansion, accessibility and affordability of British and American working class tourism c.1850 to 1980, touching on every continent on the globe.

Search for historical articles in a variety of major American and British newspapers. Comprised of the following titles, which can also be searched individually: Boston Globe, 1872-1989; Chicago Defender, 1909-1975; Chicago Tribune, 1849-1997; Guardian and the Observer (UK), 1791-2003; Los Angeles Times, 1881-1996; New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993; New York Times, 1851-2016; and Washington Post, 1877-2003

Searchable full-text of more than 1,000 historical U.S. newspapers. The core of this database is Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922, searchable along with African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, and Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971.