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Example
Leningrad AND manuscripts
Russia AND (narratives OR sources)
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Example
Roesch Library: Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives
OhioLINK: Russia -- Politics and government -- 1855-1881 -- Sources
University of Dayton catalog: Holdings of Roesch Library, Marian Library, University Archives and Special Collections, U.S. Catholic Special Collection, Law Library
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This database is an electronic version of the complete print edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day. It runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.
Contains twenty-one versions of the Bible in full text, from the 10th to the 20th centuries: The editions were chosen specifically to meet the needs of scholars.
This Catholic news resource contains thousands of newspaper pages, from different cities, over multiple years. Holdings start in 1832 and continue to the present day.
Contains theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, social and political works, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other key documents from the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries. Content includes more than 845 tiles by 270+ authors.
This collection provides access to the entire run of the New York Times from 1851 to almost the present day. Search capability available using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images.
Contains information about life in 17th and 18th century America, including agriculture, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and witchcraft. Content from the bibliography of Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement.
Full text of nearly every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from the beginning of printing in England (1473) through 1700.
This database contains over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 is drawn from Joseph Sabin's famed nineteenth century bibliography Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Book relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. This digital collection offers a perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. Covering more than 400 years and more than 65,000 volumes in North, Central, and South America and the West Indies, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions, and momentous events of the time through sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature, and more.
Full-text of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian age of periodicals and beyond with coverage dates of 1680s to 1930s. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
A multilingual collection of primary sources focused on historical economics, political science, & sociology of Europe. Contains books, journals, political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, & proclamations. Holdings range from 1450 to the 20th century.
These items are on the 2nd floor of Roesch Library. Readers and printers are available nearby.
Catholic Telegraph, 1831—present
Dayton Daily News, 1898-present
National Catholic Reporter, 1964-present