Full page images of works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s. These books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, and much more. The database includes over six million pages from 29,000 works.
Search tips:
1. The * (standing for any number of characters) is placed at the end of the term's root. The search retrieves all words sharing the same root. For example, the term faith* retrieves works that contain the words faith, faithful, or faiths.
2. The ? is used to replace exactly one character within a word to retrieve various forms of that word. For example, the term wom?n retrieves works that contain either woman or women; and psych????y matches either psychology or psychiatry but not psychotherapy.
3. The ! stands for one or no characters. For example, analo!! matches analog, analogs, and analogue but not analogous.
Where is it :
Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Journal Articles tab, click on A-Z list of databases and then on the letter A and select American History and Culture Online Sabin Americana.
Quick link:
http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?locID=unlv_main