18th C. Newspapers and Books - History - The Golden Age of Piracy - University Libraries at Coastal Carolina University

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Americas Historical Newspapers
American newspapers from 1690 to 1876. Search by presidential era or periods in American history.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
More than 180,000 English-language and foreign-language books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects from the United Kingdom and the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.

Evans Early American Imprint Collection
Nearly 5000 digitized texts from the 17th and 18th century published in America and covering a wide variety of topics.
Early Americas Digital Archive
Full text of printed books and pamphlets from the colonial period. You can only search if you know the title or author of a text. Good place to look for titles in Rediker's Notes.
English Broadside Ballad Archive
Images of broadside ballads from the period. Search to find songs, stories, and poems featuring many of the names you will learn in class and more.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
Digital facsimiles of over 30,000 broadsides, 103 are on piracy from the 1600's to the 1880's.
Eighteenth Century Book Tracker
Lists free digital editions of texts from the 18th century. Look for topics or specific titles here in all aspects of 18C. life.
Google Book Search : Advanced (Piracy)
On the advanced search page, limit your search to the years 1660-1760 to find contemporary accounts of pirates and maritime life.