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Making of America : Cornell

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The full text collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Cornell University's MoA Journal Collection:

  • American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
  • American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
  • Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
  • Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
  • The Century (1881 - 1899)
  • Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
  • The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
  • Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
  • International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
  • Living Age (1844 - 1900)
  • Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
  • New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
  • New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
  • New Englander (1843 - 1892)
  • North American Review (1815 - 1900)
  • Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
  • Punchinello (1870)
  • Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
  • Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
  • Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
  • Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
  • United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)
Cornell University's MoA Multivolume Monographs:
  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1894 - 1922)
  • The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)


Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s):
Digital Archives & Collections
History, Genealogy & Archives
Publicly Available Resources

Related DatabasesOn-Site Access Only
America : History and Life
American Civil War Research Database
American Periodicals Series
Annals of American History
Early American Imprints, Series I Evans 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
Sabin Americana 1500-1926

Related Links
American Memory
Documenting the American South ** http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html **
Making of America : Michigan ** http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ **
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