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American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-5 (EBSCO)

What is the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections? Please download the document attached at the bottom of this page for an overview of the collection, including product descriptions for each database in the series. For more information or to download a comprehensive title list, click here.

What are some of the major subject areas in the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection?
While the list below is illustrative and not comprehensive, it provides an overview of some of the major subject areas in the collection.

  • Art, Architecture, and Music
    Periodicals in this category include subjects such as fine arts and how to display them, catalogs of house plans, the decoration and furnishing a home in good taste and style, and manuals for architects and others in the building trades.

  • Books and Publishing
    Titles in this category include reviews of books and drama, as well as catalogs and descriptions of newly published books both in America and abroad.

  • Business, Agriculture, and Industry
    This broad category encompasses but is not limited to titles on finance and banking, better farming, stock and poultry raising, horticulture, mechanization and manufacture, railroads, mining, lumbering, canals, printing, and publishing.

  • Civil War and Slavery
    This category contains an extensive collection of periodicals published during the Civil War and Reconstruction with a vast amount of content on the war and slavery not available outside the walls of the AAS.

  • Ethnic Groups (including African Americans and American Indians)
    This category includes titles pertaining to the experiences of African Americans and American Indians, as well as other ethnic groups including but not limited to Jewish, German, Irish, Scandinavian, Welsh, French, Hispanic, Caribbean emigrants who settled in the United States.

  • Family and Society (including children, women, education)
    This grouping contains magazines of a general sort for all members of the family on conduct of life, fashion and dress, deportment, and membership in social or fraternal organizations such as Freemasons and Odd Fellows.

  • History and Description
    This grouping focuses on history as the subject matter. Titles in this group cover not only the United States, but also all of the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.

  • Language and Literature
    These literary magazines encompass a large and varied group of topics, including serialized novels, short stories, drama, poetry, essays, satire, wit and humor and folklore.

  • Law, Politics, and Government
    Titles in this group include law reports, digests, works on crime, punishment, legal proceedings and other points of law, as well as information for police, sheriffs, and court officers.

  • Religion and Philosophy
    Religious titles include magazines which focus on specific denominations as well as those which cover general works on theology, baptism, sin, conduct of life, Sunday schools, and Bible and missionary societies.

  • Revolutionary War
    This category contains an exhaustive collection of periodicals published during the Revolutionary War.

  • Science and Medicine
    This category includes titles relating to pure sciences such as chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc. as well as natural history, anthropology, archaeology, meteorology, botany, mineralogy, geology, weather, ethnology and zoology.

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