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The following databases have been categorized by the Divinity School Library staff. Click on a link below to display the databases relevant to your needs.

Off-campus use: In addition to using the Duke VPN, you may click on any database below, submit your Duke netid and password, and receive direct access to the database.

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African American newspapers: the 19th century
(Duke WWW)
Provides the full text of articles from the following newspapers: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Papers, and The Christian Recorder.
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
(CD-ROM only)
Contains Celtic-Latin Literature from 400-1200 CE.
Digital library of classic Protestant texts
(Duke WWW)
Contains primary texts, facsimiles, and selected English translations of an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Includes theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors. See also the Quick Reference Guide.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 A definitive resource for research on 17th and 18th century American history and life including such varied topics as agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, science, philosophy, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Provides full-text access to the books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century in the United States.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
(Duke WWW)
EEBO reproduces over 125,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in English between 1475 and 1700. Topics include philosophy, religion, science, politics, history, poetry, prose, drama, and music. Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership allows full-text searching of text-versions of a portion of the titles available in Early English Books Online.
Eighteenth century collections
(Duke WWW)
The complete works of many 18th century authors, women writers of the 18th century and French Revolution collections are included. Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Text Creation Partnership allows full-text searching of text-versions of a portion of the titles available in Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
Eighteenth Century Journals II
(Duke WWW)
Journals from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals. Supports studies of the Eighteenth Century, including Literature, the Theatre, the origins and rise of Romanticism, Politics, Revolution and Rebellion, Social issues, Gender, Society Life, Religion and the influence of the Press.
Empire Online
(Duke WWW)
British Empire full-text documents from the 15th century to the 20th century. Documents are arranged into 5 sections: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class, and Colonialism, c. 1783-1969.
In the First Person
(WWW)
A primary text collection of letters, diaries, memoirs, oral histories, and autobiographies from more than 15,000 people.
Library of Latin Texts
(Duke WWW)
Based primarily on the Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina and Continuatio Mediaevalis, this product formerly known as CETEDOC strives to offer the best critical texts of Patristic and Medieval Latin Christian authors.
Literature Online (LION)
(Duke WWW)
A fully-searchable library of over 250,000 full text works of English and American literature dating from 600 CE. It includes 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century.
North American women's letters and diaries
(Duke WWW)
Includes records from more than 1500 women from colonial times to 1950.
Past Masters
(Duke WWW)
Contains classic scholarly editions of the complete works of selected philosophers including Aquinas, Calvin, and Luther's Sermons.
Patrologia Latina
(Duke WWW)
Contains the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855 which includes works of the Church Fathers from A.D. 200 to 1216.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
(Duke WWW)
The database permits full-text searching of almost all Greek texts in critical editions of the original Greek from the 8th century BCE through 200 CE.
Women and social movements in the United States, 1600-2000
(Duke WWW)
Primary source document collections from colonial times to the present. Items are arranged by social movement, as well as by authors, sources, etc. Includes images.
 
 

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