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. (Covering period: 1500-1926)

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  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.
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Where is it :

Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page. Under Find, select Articles, then under Article databases by name, click on the letter A and select American History and Culture Online; Sabin Americana.

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Click here for the American History and Culture Online, Sabin Americana homepage

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