Long before the days of blogging, one of the best ways to broadcast your opinion was by pamphleteering. An important means of public debate, pamphlets can offer today's researchers insight into popular attitudes and ideas of the time. And now JSTOR has released a digital collection of more than 20,000 19th-century British pamphlets covering a wide range of political, social, and intellectual thought. Some pamphlets include additional material like advertisements, maps, cartoons, letters, and petitions. 

If you're looking for primary resources from this period, try browsing the pamphlet collection from the title list, or try a keyword search using the Advanced Search screen and marking the checkbox labeled "Pamphlet".

Here are just a few examples of what you'll come across in this new resource (login remotely using your Campus Connect ID and password):

• A letter to George Washington, on the subject of the late treaty concluded between Great Britain & the United States of America, including other matters (1819) by Thomas Paine 

• Mr. J. S. Mill upon personal representation (1884) by John Stuart Mill

• Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage (1879)

• A Letter to the Queen, in behalf of her suffering people: to which is added, a plain and ernest appeal to the fears of the land-owners (1841) by "The Poor Man's Friend" 

• A Word to the Wise: observations on peerage for life (1856) by Charles Babbage

• Army sanitary administration, and its reform under the late Lord Herbert (1862) by Florence Nightingale