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Inhalt :: Content
Online-Service mit Zugang zu rund 5.500 "Amateur"-Zeitungen und -Zeitschriften, die zwischen 1840 und 1920 in den USA und teilweise in Kanada veröffentlicht wurden. Die Sammlung basiert auf dem weltweit umfangreichsten Archiv dieser Art, das bei der American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester, Massachusetts, liegt.
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society is an indispensable digital archive that offers students and researchers a thorough analysis of amateur newspapers and periodicals from the 19th century. Comprising more than 5,500 titles, from every state except Alaska and Hawaii, as well as issues from fifteen foreign countries, this digital collection is the largest and most extensive in the United States.
Discover exclusive content
There is currently no other product in the market that offers material on this subject matter all in one digital archive. Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society contains tens of thousands of issues, with publications that range from two to as many as fifty or more pages.
Unearth significant viewpoints
Amateur newspapers provide meaningful insights into a populace not represented by large printers and publications of the time. This collection is extensive in its depth and breadth, giving researchers a wealth of reliable content.
Gain a deeper perspective
Though many amateur publications from the period were short-lived, they provide a broader understanding of the 19th century as a whole, and allow researchers to compare the political and social issues facing young adults of the time with those confronting society today.
Optimized for digital scholarship
This collection will be available for more in-depth analysis through the Digital Scholar Lab—a research experience that removes key barriers of entry into digital scholarship and enables researchers of all levels to quickly build corpora of analysis-ready, text-data sourced from Gale’s unrivaled digital collection of primary source material.
Features and tools
- Textual Analysis Tools:
Identify and visualize patterns, trends, and relationships to explore content in new ways.
- Subject Indexing:
Easily find content and view key elements in the text.
- Image Viewer:
Zoom, rotate, and reverse to create a custom view in full-screen mode.
- Downloadable OCR:
Now keyword-search monographs, newspapers, and ephemera for a new level of access on all search results.
- Stand-alone or Cross-search Capabilities:
Use the archive on its own or cross search with other primary source collections like Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers to reveal connections that foster deeper understanding.
- Browse Titles:
Provides a unique interface to browse through the content instead of just searching for it.
Subjects
- African-American Studies
- Creative Writing
- History
- Humanities & Social Sciences
- Journalism
- Regional History
- Science & Technology
- U.S. History
Platform Features & Tools
- Topic Finder:
By grouping commonly occurring themes, this tool reveals hidden connections within search terms - helping to shape research by integrating diverse content with relevant information.
- Term Frequency:
Researchers can see the frequency of search terms within sets of content to begin identifying central themes and assessing how individuals, places, events, and ideas interact and develop over time.
- Cross-Search Capability:
Search across the materials of complementary primary source products, including books, in one united, intuitive environment, enabling innovative new research connections.
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