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Drawing together Primary Source Media’s microfiche edition of Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana and other major sources, Gale has made the study of the Western Hemisphere from the arrival of Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the start of the 20th century a lot easier — and faster.

Unlike other digital collections, Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 consists of works about the Americas published not only in the United States but from across the globe. This collection of important and many hard-to-find primary sources opens a window onto the society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions both at home and abroad that covers a period of more than 400 years.

Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 contains information about North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies. This resource offers original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition. With a simple search from a library terminal or home access, researchers can comb through 29,000 titles — more than 6 million pages of text — in a matter of seconds.

Keeping in the Gale Digital Archives tradition, Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 offers basic and advanced search options: users can search among or within specific works, view the results of their full-text searches on facsimile pages from the original works, save their lists of results, specific pages or works using InfoMark technology, e-mail citations for your selected works, print and download portions of the works themselves.