The Libraries have purchased access to a database, Black Abolitionist Papers 1830-1865 from ProQuest. This collection of primary source materials includes correspondence of major African American leaders; speeches, sermons, and lectures; articles, essays, editorials, and other major writings from more than 200 African American, abolitionist, and reform newspapers; and receipts, poems, and other miscellaneous documents. Geographic coverage is Canada, the United States and the British Isles. To access the papers, you can browse or search by document type, title, source, location and date.

If you’d like assistance using this resources, contact Isabel Espinal, Afro-American library liaison at 413-545-6817.

19th Century Masterfile indexes over 60 indexes across subjects which cover periodicals, books, newspapers, U.S. patents, government documents and the U.S.  Congressional Record published prior to 1930. You can search by keyword, title or author, or browse by keyword, journal title or author.

The trial extends through April 22, 2011. Contact Jim Kelly, History Liaison Librarian at 413-545-3981 with questions or comments.

The Libraries have added a subscription to Ancestry Library. Ancestry Library is a rich source of historical birth, death, marriage records and census data from the United States, the UK and Ireland, Europe, Canada and Australia. This database is for on-campus use only.

Contact Jim Kelly, History Liaison Library, at 413-545-3891 for assistance with this resource.

The American Antiquarian Society Periodicals Collection I (1691-1820), Collection II (1821-1837) and Collection III (1838-1852) are on trial through April 17th, 2011. The Collections, offered on the Ebscohost platform, provide scanned images and easy navigation through periodicals imported and published on American soil over one and a half centuries. You can search by keyword, author, publication name, geographic term, or browse through issues of publications.

Contact Jim Kelly, History Library Liaison, at 413-545-3981 with questions or comments.

The Libraries are offering a trial of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine through March 9th, 2011. With coverage since 1975 of materials from international publications, this bibliography provides a window on the cultural influences of these fields.

Contact Jim Kelly, liaison librarian for history, at 413-545-3981.

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 provides indexing of printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Ebsco has worked with the John Carter Brown Library to convert its print equivalent, “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750″ to an electronic bibliography.

Contact Jim Kelly, History Library Liaison and Humanities Bibliographer, at 413-545-3981 with questions.

Arte Público includes 60,000 historical articles, hundreds of political and religious pamphlets and broadsides, complete texts of over 1,100 historical books of Hispanic literature, political commentary and culture, memoirs, correspondences, hand-written speeches, sermons, etc. Content is 80% Spanish & 20% English (both are indexed).

The trial runs through March 1st, 2011. Contact Peter Stern, Romance Languages, Fine Arts and Area Studies Bibliographer at 413-545-3967 with questions or comments.

The ProQuest Historical Newspapers Baltimore Sun (1837-1985), Detroit Free Press (1837-1922) and Hartford Courant (1764-1984) are on trial through December 19th, 2010. Contact Jim Kelly, Humanities Bibliography, at 413-545-3981 with questions or comments.

The Libraries have a trial for the Los Angeles Times covering the complete newspaper from its first issue in 1881 through 1987. Images of all available pages and articles are available as .pdfs.

The trial runs until November 25th, 2010. Contact Jim Kelly at 413-545-3981 with questions or comments.

The UMass Amherst Libraries now have the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome online. Edited by Michael Gagarin, this encyclopedia provides an overview of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman cultures from the Bronze Age to the 5th Century CE, as well as their legacies.

If you would like assistance using this resource, contact a reference librarian.