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HIST 193J Seances & Spirits: Science & the Occult in the Long 19th Century: Primary Source Databases and Web Resources

Freely Available Resources on the Web

The following web-accessible resources are freely available and do not require a Yale login to access.

Newspapers and Periodicals

These databases are licensed by the Yale Library for your use and require you to be on the Yale campus or authenticated to the Yale network via CAS or VPN. This guide provides more information about off-campus access to licensed database resources.

Digital Archives

These databases are licensed by the Yale Library for your use and require you to be on the Yale campus or authenticated to the Yale network via CAS or VPN. This guide provides more information about off-campus access to licensed database resources.

You may find small amounts of material relevant to this course in many more broadly conceived databases of digital primary sources. Many of the databases below are included here because of this possibility. The Victorian Popular Culture and Nineteenth Century Collections Online databases listed below are probably a good place to start searching for digitized primary sources for your research project in this course.