Finding Books, Book Chapters, and Book Reviews: Ebook Collections for Historical Books

Rotunda’s Founding Era Collection is an integrated research environment that covers the correspondence of a number of key figures from America’s founding era.

"The Archive of Americana provides unprecedented online access to historical books, broadsides, newspapers, government publications and more." (Readex website). The collection includes: America's Historical Imprints (includes: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Early American Imprints: Series I: Evans 1629-1800 & Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819) and America's State Papers.

Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy.

"A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875."

ECCO contains digital images of every page of over a hundred thousand books published during the 18th century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. It offers full-text searching of millions of pages.

"Not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection." Great source for older government documents, including state, and much more.

"'The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926' provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926." (Gale)

Includes collections for U.S. federal, state and territorial materials, as well as foreign and international materials.

"[D]igital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction."

MOML is a full-text searchable collection of 21,000 British and American legal treatises from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere."