Accessible Archives

For more than thirty years Accessible Archives selected, found, digitized and delivered unique and exclusive content previously available only in microformat, hard copy form or as images. In June 2023, Accessible Archives became part of Coherent Digital. Our plan is to build and grow the portfolio and transfer the collections to a new and highly functionality platform—History Commons.

Accessible Archives collections are rekeyed and structured to make them easy to cite and research. Systems that use OCR struggle with smaller and older fonts, and unstructured data which compromises research, text data mining, and text-to-speech. Meticulous manual rekeying makes searching over 30% more accurate than OCR engines, and structured data allows exciting new forms of text data mining. The net result makes our collections far more accessible.

Learn about new features coming to Accessible databases when they move to the History Commons platform.

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• African American Newspapers

  • The Liberator

  • National Anti-Slavery Standard

• African American Newspapers in the South

• American County Histories

• American Inventor

• The Civil War Collection

• Colonial Newspapers

  • South Carolina Newspapers

  • The Pennsylvania Gazette

  • The Virginia Gazette

• Frank Leslie’s Weekly

• Women's Magazines and Newspapers

  • Godey’s Lady’s Book

  • The Woman’s Tribune

• World War I: Military Camp Newspapers

Subset Collections

• Anatomy of Protest in America

• Native Americans in History

• Quarantine and Disease Control in America

Freely Available Collections

• Twelve Years A Slave

• The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue

• Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets

• Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

• History of Woman Suffrage

About Accessible

Accessible Archives was founded in 1990 and has a long and distinguished history. Learn more about it.

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