Sabin Americana 1500-1926 
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Description: Sabin Americana contains books, pamphlets and other documents about society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions for North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies. This resource offers original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition. Topics in this collection of writings on life in the Americas include works on:
- American Women — Including works on the education, civil rights, domestic life and employment of women, as well as individual biographical studies
- Cities and States — Comprising materials on the social and political evolution of America’s major cities and key states such as Boston, New York city, California and Texas
- Civil War — including a wide array of local, national and international memoirs, political tracts, published legislative proceedings, and broadsides that detail the rise and resolution of this conflict that tore the United States in two
- Colonization - features both American and European views of colonization and first-hand accounts of colonial life in the U.S., Caribbean and throughout Latin America
- Constitution — Documenting through pamphlets, letters, addresses and essays the early political organization of the American colonies and framing of the Constitution
- Discovery & Exploration of the Americas — Containing works printed from the 16th through 19th centuries about the discovery and exploration of the Americas with accounts from British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Danish explorers
- Immigration — Compiling pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, articles and books that describe immigration to the Americas during its 400-year modern history
- Native Americans — Including essays, booklets, treaties, land tracts, congressional speeches, journals and letters documenting the social attitudes and dealings with North and South America’s indigenous populations
- Politics — Consisting of materials that tell the story of the birth of “campaign literature” during the 18th and 19th centuries
- Reconstruction — Comprising records that describe the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states in the Union after the Civil War
- Slavery — Containing memoirs of life under slavery, including original speeches, lectures, sermons, discourses, papers and reports written to the legislatures across America, pamphlets, reviews of the day, books and international essays expressing both pro- and anti-slavery sentiments
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s)
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
History, Genealogy & Archives
Law
Politics & Government
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