Collins Memorial Library: American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Getting Started

Collins Library has added the AAS Historical Periodicals Collection to its roster of digital primary source collections! With digital, full-color reproductions of over 7,500 titles, the AAS Historical Periodicals Collection greatly expands and enhances access to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. magazines and journals for the University of Puget Sound campus.

Quick Links & Overviews

AAS Historical Periodicals, 1691-1820 (Series 1)
Series 1 of the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides full text, full image access to early English-language colonial imports and to journals of the American Revolution and early republic.

Revolutionary War Periodicals: An Overview (November 2008): 1. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1, EBSCOhost.

AAS Historical Periodicals, 1821-1837 (Series 2)
Series 2 of the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides full text, full image access to journals from the Jacksonian period in history and is broad in scope including agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.

Woloson, Wendy. Overview Of The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2, 1821-1837 (January 2009): 1. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1, EBSCOhost.

AAS Historical Periodicals, 1838-1852 (Series 3)
Series 3 of the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides full text, full image access to journals and magazines during a period of western expansion, railroad construction, and sharp regional differences.

Woloson, Wendy. Overview Of The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3, 1838-1852 (January 2010): 1. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1, EBSCOhost.

AAS Historical Periodicals, 1853-1865 (Series 4)
Series 4 of the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides full text, full image access to journals and magazines of the Civil War era, including antislavery, temperance, and women's suffrage publications.

Woloson, Wendy. Overview Of The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4, 1853-1865 (January 2011): 1. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1, EBSCOhost.

AAS Historical Periodicals, 1866-1912 (Series 5)
Series 5 of the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides full text, full image access to thousands of periodicals published after the Civil War and into the early Progressive era.

Woloson, Wendy. Overview Of The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5, 1866-1877 (December 2011): 1. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1, EBSCOhost.