Wes, The Making of America sites, from U of Michigan (http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/) and Cornell U (http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/), have hundreds of 19th c. monographs and periodicals digitized online. They are fully searchable and quite easy to use. The Cornell site is a bit more extensive and has Harper's New Monthly Magazine from 1850-1899. As for newspapers, you won't find them on MoA, so you may have to find a library that subscribes to Proquest Historic Newspapers (at least for the NYTimes). Not sure about other online newspapers sources. Good luck! Jeff Miller University of Tennessee at Martin