The "Making of America" (MoA I) Digitized Library has been available for abt 5 yrs now and these are free databases and searchable on line. Making of American; Part 1: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_search.html Making of America; Part II: http://www.diglib.org/standards/dlfmoaii.htm http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/