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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 offers students and researchers quick access to more than 29,000 titles that describe the society, politics, religious beliefs, customs, and momentous events that characterized life in the Western Hemisphere from the early 16th century through the start of the 20th century.

The Sabin collection consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides and documents from an assortment of genres — from sermons and political tracts to legislation and literature. Topics in this vast collection of writings on life in the Americas include work on:

• American Women — Including works on the education, civil rights, domestic life and employment of women, as well as individual biographical studies
• Cities and States — Comprising materials on the social and political evolution of America’s major cities and key states such as Boston, New York city, California and Texas
• Civil War — including a wide array of local, national and international memoirs, political tracts, published legislative proceedings, and broadsides that detail the rise and resolution of this conflict that tore the United States in two
• Constitution — Documenting through pamphlets, letters, addresses and essays the early political organization of the American colonies and framing of the Constitution
• Discovery & Exploration of the Americas — Containing works printed from the 16th through 19th centuries about the discovery and exploration of the Americas with accounts from British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Danish explorers
• Immigration — Compiling pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, articles and books that describe immigration to the Americas during its 400-year modern history
• Native Americans — Including essays, booklets, treaties, land tracts, congressional speeches, journals and letters documenting the social attitudes and dealings with North and South America’s indigenous populations
• Politics — Consisting of materials that tell the story of the birth of “campaign literature” during the 18th and 19th centuries
• Reconstruction — Comprising records that describe the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states in the Union after the Civil War
• Slavery — Containing memoirs of life under slavery, including original speeches, lectures, sermons, discourses, papers and reports written to the legislatures across America, pamphlets, reviews of the day, books and international essays expressing both pro- and anti-slavery sentiments