HIST 28906: Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment

For US and state government documents, start with the resources on this guide.
Digital literary sources (novels, poetry databases, etc.) can be found here.

• American Song (Part of Music Online)
• American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
• Civil War Letters and Diaries
  Full-text, keyword searchable diaries, letters and memoirs.
• Documenting the American South  
  From UNC Chapel Hill, a project that provides access to materials related to southern history, literature, and culture, including:
  --First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
  --North American Slave Narratives

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
  --American Popular Songs
  --Children's Book Illustrations
  --White Studio Theatrical Photographs, 1903-1936
  --Billy Rose Theatre Division Scrapbooks
  and many more.
• Periodicals Archive Online