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.
Revolutionary War Periodicals: An Overview (November 2008): 1. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1, EBSCOhost.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Peggy Burge, Coordinator of Teaching, Learning, & Digital Humanities, created and maintains this guide. If you have questions about the AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, you may contact her or any of the liaison librarians.
Ballou's Pictorial was a very popular illustrated weekly during the 1850s, and is just one periodical out of thousands available in the AAS Historical Periodicals collection.
Detail of illustration of California gold-diggers from the May 3, 1856 issue of Ballou's Pictorial. Images in Ballou's Pictorial and other illustrated weeklies contributed to the American public's perception of the West as a wild land to be plundered by white settlers.