The Making of America collection at Cornell contains close to a million pages from more than 250 monographs and almost 1000 serials.
[2] For the beginning phase of the project, the Antebellum Period through the Reconstruction Era, 1850-1877 was selected; the project initiators felt that the literature of this period was appropriate for the beginning phase because it was manageable in scope, of high interest to potential users and the original documents were in need to reformatting due to rapid deterioration.
The digital conversion process was completed by Northern Micrographic, Inc. in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The interface provides browsing and searches of various types including basic, Boolean, bibliographic, and proximity.
The Cornell University Library site specifically states that permissions are not required to use items from the Making of America project collection, but recommends a credit line to be included.