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Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century periodicals. Included in the collection is Godey's Lady's Book, The Civil War: A Soldier's Perspective, African American newspapers, American county histories and various other newspapers, gazettes and collections.
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
An Accessible Archives' collection offers first-hand reports on 1800s cultural life and history, including major events, biographies, statistics, essays, poetry, prose, and advertisements, covering topics like the Mexican War, business, and religion.
This collection includes the full text of historically significant African American newspapers, published in 36 states, 1827-1998.
This database provides access to periodicals by and about African Americans. Representing 26 states, the publications offer a range of material, including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
Searchable printed works covering the pivotal post-Reconstruction period. The most significant works by and about African Americans from the beginning of Jim Crow to post-World War I. New perspectives on African American culture, rights, and daily life during a time of segregation and disenfranchisement.
Searchable printed works covering the crucial post-Civil War period in African-American history. The most significant works by and about African Americans from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow. Fresh insight into the evolution of African-American culture, rights and daily life in a time of hopeful struggle.
The collection includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides on Black life in the Americas from 1535-1922, covering African discovery, exploitation, slavery, abolitionist movements, racial thought, African American life, and fiction and drama.
The Alabama Virtual Library provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with 24/7 online access to premier library and information resources free of charge. AVL provides access to several types of resources such as Dictionary/Encyclopedias, Literature, Current Events, Business, and E-Books.
Alexander Street is an electronic publisher specializing in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary content across a broad spectrum of academic subjects.
This resource compiles various searchable Readex newspaper databases, including early American, African American, Hispanic American, and selected historical newspapers from the United States, encompassing digital replicas from every state and specific collections from Alabama spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.
This collection of historical periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society documents life in America from the Colonial period through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Cover-to-cover digitizing gives access not only to the main text, but also to advertisements, illustrations, obituaries, cover art, and more.
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries is a comprehensive collection of original source material, including diaries, letters, and memoirs, from various perspectives, including politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies.
Encyclopedic in coverage, county histories support both historical and genealogical research. Topics range from churches and ministers to weather, wars, industry, education and more.
American Crime and Criminal Justice, 1664-1819 provides a comprehensive understanding of early America's society, economy, and morality, highlighting the influence of wealthy officials, clergy, women, indentured servants, enslaved Africans, and Native Americans.
Rotunda’s American History Collection offers primary and secondary source documents from some of the most preeminent figures of that age. This collection includes the papers of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madision, Dolly Madision, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, John Jay and more.
The digital archive of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It covers the major themes of the period from colonisation and settlement through the revolution, expansion, politics, slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, to World War II.
This collection of items from the New York Historical Society includes speeches, orations, debates, sermons, treatises, tracts, narratives, poems, songs, memoirs, announcements, legal notices, and more. The collection is cross-searchable with other parts of America’s Historical Imprints.
This collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines, journals, and newspapers published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines.
The collection spans from the Colonial period through the Jeffersonian Era. This database covers categories such as almanacs and registers, discovery and exploration, fires and fire prevention, military and agricultural sciences, communication and transportation, medical science and advancements, and others.
A collection of over sermons from 1652 to 1819 covers topics like gossip, slavery, and witchcraft, providing research opportunities for scholars and insights into daily life, politics, and society of early America. Additionally, it offers cultural commentary on historical events like the American Revolution and abolition movement.
Documents drawn from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Includes rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.
British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980.
Archive Finder links ArchivesUSA and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland, providing researchers with access to primary source material repositories and microfiche finding aids for thousands of archive and manuscript collections.
The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program spans the sixteenth to twentieth centuries and is the largest digital collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, and gender research and gender studies research.
Archives Unbound provides collections of historical primary documents that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century political history.
A digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, politics, and culture from colonial times to the 20th century. Series 1 and 2 contain advertisements, books, broadsides, essays, newspapers, pamphlets, short stories and more.
ARTFL is a collection of digitized French language texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, ranging from classic works of French literature to journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
Associated Press Collections Online Explores the history and back story of the Associated Press, and offers decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more. The collection includes 1) News Features & Internal Communications; and 2) Washington, D.C. Bureau Collection.
The Black Authors, 1556-1922 collection, curated by Afro-Americana Imprints curators, offers fully catalogued works by Black authors from the Americas, Europe, and Africa, covering various genres, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems and musical compositions.
Black Drama contains the full text of plays written by more numerous playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.
Black Studies Center supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.
British Library Newspapers, sourced from the British Library, offers a unique perspective on historical events from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. It provides a unique perspective on regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars.
C19 Index is a dynamic and growing resource, including a full range of 19th century source material and provides integrated access to finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives.
The Cambridge Edition of Ben Jonson Online is a searchable online version of his print edition, providing a comprehensive collection of his writings for contemporary readers. It includes original introductions, collations, commentary, essays, archives, images, music scores, stage performances, and a cross-linked bibliography.
The China, American and the Pacific collection offers archival material on the trading and cultural relationships between China, America, and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
This resource documents missionary work from the 19th to 20th century, including periodicals from the CMS, Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, and South American Missionary Society. It provides valuable insights into global history, particularly in the areas of global education, healthcare, and medicine.
John L. LeFlore was a key figure in the fight for black equality in Mobile, Alabama, southern Alabama, Mississippi, and along the Florida Gulf Coast. He was the first African American appointed to the Housing Board and elected to the state legislature since Reconstruction. His work dates back to 1961-1975.
This database, which is part of Accessible Archives, contains the full text of articles from The New York Herald, Charleston Mercury, and Richmond Enquirer from November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. It covers news, battles, editorials, ads, biographies, travel, arts, sports, and social events.
Colonial America offers volumes of the CO 5 series, spanning 1606-1822, from The National Archives, UK, providing a valuable resource for historical historians.
The resource offers access to confidential correspondence from the UK's Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign Offices regarding Africa from 1834 to 1966, including official documents and maps.
The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between 1820 and 1970, is a crucial source for political, social, and economic research in Central and South America and the Caribbean, covering topics like slavery, immigration, wars, and populist rulers.
The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between 1820 and 1970, is a crucial source for political, social, and economic research. It covers countries like Levant, Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and Sudan, covering events like the Middle East Conference.
The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between 1820 and 1970, is a crucial source of political, social, and economic research, covering topics like slavery, Prohibition, World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, and the nuclear bomb.
Digitized versions of early American Newspapers from The American Antiquarian Society, private collections and The Library of Congress, Brown, Harvard, et al. Based on the microfilm collection of the same name.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment explores relationships between Native American, African, and European peoples from 1534-1850, using primary sources and personal accounts.
Early European Books is a collection of European materials from 1455-1700, including modern sciences, travel, Renaissance, Incunabula, church fathers, Reformation, Counter-Reformation, literature, and philosophy, sourced from major European libraries.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digitized library representing most of the significant English- and foreign-language texts published in Great Britain and the colonies during the eighteenth century. Subject access to this collection is provided by the British Library’s online English Short Title Catalogue.
Full-text archive of many important magazines documenting the early days of the film, television and popular music industries. Notably, includes Billboard (1894-2000), Variety (1905-2000), and The Stage (1880-2000).
This full-text database is a resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies, videos, and primary source documents.
This database features 17th and 18th-century American books, pamphlets, and broadsides, sourced from Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's supplement, and cross-searchable with Shaw-Shoemaker.
This collection of searchable images and transcriptions covers American social, cultural, and popular history from the 19th and early 20th centuries, covering political, social, gender, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, and family life.
The Fannie Lou Hamer papers contain correspondence plus financial records, programs, photographs, newspaper articles, invitations, and other printed items that help us celebrate her esteemed life.
The Film & Television Literature Index Full Text is a comprehensive database spanning various aspects of television and film research, including theory, preservation, screenwriting, production, cinematography, and technical aspects.
This collection provides a comprehensive look at the First World War through the perspectives of those who served, offering valuable insight for researchers and students studying this significant period in history.
Food Studies Online includes works covering how food shapes and defines people's lives through the eyes of philosophers, historians, scientists, sociologists, artists, anthropologists, activists, physicists, psychologists, chefs, and many other important researchers.
The FBIS collection consists of intelligence reports from 1941-1996, gathered by the CIA from various sources like government publications, newspapers, and broadcasts. These documents, now accessible in a digital format, offer valuable insights into global events during the latter half of the 20th century.
The collection includes British Foreign Office files on China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 1919 to 1980, containing diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, reports, and more. These previously restricted documents offer detailed insights into a significant period in Chinese history.
British Government Foreign Office files relating to modern South Asia.
British Government Foreign Office files relating to the Middle East.
Gale Primary Sources offers a comprehensive platform for research, enabling users to search multiple collections simultaneously. It goes beyond basic retrieval, providing tools for analysis and discovery of new material.
This resource provides primary source materials for studying global commodities' impact on societies, trading operations, consumption habits, and social practices over centuries, spanning manuscript, printed, and visual formats.
Gale In Context: Global Issues provides a comprehensive global perspective on key global issues, including Food Security, Genocide, Human Rights, and Extreme Weather, integrating news, primary source documents, and more.
This collection is a part of Accessible Archives and provides the complete run of Godey's Lady's Book published in 1830 by Louis Antoine Godey, includes color plates and original issues. The magazine targeted American women and featured fashion descriptions, biographical sketches, articles, and sheet music.
A digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works that allows students and researchers to explore and compare a range of sources on the history of travel. Many come from private or neglected collections.
Hein Online provides access to the full-text of legal periodical articles, Supreme Court opinions, U.S. Attorney General opinions, treaties and international agreements, and the Federal Register. Documents are available as photocopy-equivalent PDF files.
HeinOnline Foreign Relations of the United States presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which began in 1861 under President Abraham Lincoln, contains books and documents from various Presidential libraries as well as different governmental agencies.
Hispanic American Newspapers is fully searchable, full-text compilation of Spanish-language or Spanish-English bilingual newspapers printed in the U.S.
The collection showcases historical treatment of disabled individuals through personal memoirs, records of treatments, education, remediation, and institutional discrimination, highlighting the struggles faced by these individuals.
Primary source resources through video content, fully searchable transcripts, and oral histories from individuals whose life stories bring African American history to life.
Provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. Includes primary and secondary materials for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more.
Full facsimile run of the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Presents a vivid picture of British and world events — including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science — with coverage in the first issue ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria’s fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace. Includes full color imaging of every page.
Presents imagery of nineteenth-century Americana social, military, and political perspectives, documenting camp and battle experiences of soldiers, hospitals and prisons experiences, civilian life in cities and towns, as well as the demeanor of the politicians. Graphical content such as envelopes, song sheets, recruiting posters, imprints, and cartoons included.
The National Library of Scotland has wonderful collections documenting this history from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947. They are made available online through this collection.
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from early European colonization up to photographs and Indigenous newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
Images of the full text of many scholarly titles in a range of subject areas, including literature, biological sciences, economics, finance, and statistics. Search the archive or pull up a specific article. Artstor is now available on the JSTOR platform.
Primary sources on the history of tourism. Bringing together collections from multiple archives, including Thomas Cook, this resource presents an untapped multi-national perspective on the evolution of affordable tourism around the world.
Materials include 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown. Includes unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings that trace the inspiration and genesis behind the period’s greatest works.
From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the Victorian city.
Provides access to documents from the highest level of the British Government during the Macmillan Administration, 1957-1963 with complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) (CAB 128) and memoranda (CAB 129) of Harold Macmillan's government, plus selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees (CAB 134).
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library showcasing primary sources in American social history, covering education, psychology, sociology, religion, and science and technology, promoting preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
The Making of America digital library, spanning from antebellum to reconstruction, houses primary sources in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology, funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Making of the Modern World is an online archive that documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century into the early 20th century. Includes books, serials, pamphlets, essays and more.
A resource for sociologists and cultural historians with data for researchers across a wide range of disciplines. Includes diaries, surveys and questionnaires that reveal everyday life in Britain between the 1930s and 1960s.
Contains full-color images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise the Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor, and Armburgh family letter collections, along with full-text searchable transcripts from printed editions. Also includes family trees, chronology, a map, and a glossary.
Provides access to a collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages. Material provides an insight into the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science.
Edward S Morse (1838-1925), a great polymath – notable for his work in zoology, natural history, ethnography and art history – but known for his work in bringing Japan and the West closer together. He documented life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization. Full access to Morse's diaries, journals, and correspondence.
Collection of primary source materials drawn from newspapers, journals, and radio and television broadcasts from 19 countries in the Middle East and North Africa as well as other nations with regional political, economic, and security interests. The collection includes government-level analysis and commentary.
Migration to New Worlds provides access to over 350 years of primary source material relating to migration. The database includes colonial office records, diaries, travel journals, ship logs and plans.
The Nation offers a 135-year archive of reporting opinion and criticism. It includes primary source material covering the history of politics, culture, books and the arts - in America and around the world. The Nation Digital Archive is a fully searchable electronic version of the magazine's complete backfile.
Part of Accessible Archives, National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Part I covers 1840-1844, Part II covers 1845-1849, Part III covers 1850-1854, Part IV covers 1855-1859, Part V covers 1860-1864 and Part VI covers 1865-1870.
Part of Accessible Archives, The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal deeply involved in the roots of the American feminist movement.
This collection contains publications about the relationship between Native Americans and European settlers.
NCCO is an ongoing digitization project focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Drawn from libraries worldwide and representing multiple languages, the collection includes books, newspapers, periodicals, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, maps, and more.
19th Century UK Periodicals is a comprehensive series that traces the events, lives, values, and themes that shaped the 19th Century world. It covers Britain's role as an imperial power beyond its borders, spanning Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, New Zealand, and South Africa, sourced from the British Library, National Library of Scotland, and National Library of Australia.
The collection of America's popular entertainment forms provides insights into daily life, politics, culture, and evolving tastes of Americans. Topics include women's movements, temperance, street life, westward expansion, slavery, immigration, wars, and more. It also includes hundreds of prompt books and manuscripts, annotated copies revealing author intentions and director artistic views.
British Government documents on North America during Nixon's presidency.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries offers a large collection of women's diaries and correspondence spanning more than 300 years.
This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
Primary source material pertaining to the civil rights movement and to U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era. Includes federal records, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries is organized in five subject categories.
One search for all of our Readex subscribed products searching collections of primary resource research material.
Offers access to handwritten volumes documenting military orders, movements and engagements by brigade, regiment, company and other specific military units between 1748 and 1817. The content also provides detailed accounts of troops daily lives, documenting everything from court martial cases to the price of necessities charged by locals.
Collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. Includes pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers. Charts stages of the newspaper, beginning with irregularly published transcriptions of Parliamentary debates and proclamations to coffee house newsbooks, resulting in its current form.
This collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801 to 1820 is based on the American Bibliography, 1801-1819 of Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
The South Asia Archive is an extensive resource across the humanities and social sciences. The historical documents within the Archive are interdisciplinary, reflecting the varied range of knowledge production in colonial and early post-colonial India and the wider sub-continent.
Part of Accessible Archives; Prominent South Carolina publications from 1777-1780. Includes: South Carolina Gazette; South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; South Carolina and American General Gazette and supplements.
Covers all news printed by The Times newspaper between 1785 and 1985. Includes everything from top news stories to editorials, obituaries, sports, and advertisements, excluding Sunday editions.
Composed of Twayne's three print literature series-United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors, covers hundreds of authors from ancient times to the present. Users can search by name, genre, nationality, gender, language, and time period. Includes updated information such as biography, history of literary movements, criticisms, and more.
The collection includes digitized pages of handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books describing American attitudes towards family dynamics, gender roles, sexual relationships, and race relations.
Source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe (1779 to 1930), and shows how interconnected these worlds were. Victorian Popular Culture invites readers to the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything spectacular: shows, bawdy burlesque, magic, spiritualist séances, etc.
Published weekly in Williamsburg (1736 and 1780), was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States. It covered all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries. Part of Accessible Archives.
A free Internet resource from the University of California-Santa Barbara, VoS is an annotated guide to online resources in the humanities. The database covers both primary and secondary/theoretical resources and includes both traditional and contemporary fields (e.g., Cultural Studies, Sci-Tech and Culture, Cyberculture, and Technology of Writing).
Collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and includes document projects and archives with full-text. Topics include: suffrage, anti-slavery, women's rights, temperance, women's clubs. Also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
A finding aid to the collections of The National Archives, UK, at Kew. Also includes a selection of rare documents relating to women's suffrage in the UK and the British Empire.
Documents the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives, offering resources pertaining to the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. The database is in four parts: Issues and Identities; Voice and Vision; Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922; Female Forerunners Worldwide.
Part of Accessible Archives, this collection addresses America in the World War I Era. Camp newspapers make important original source material—much of it written by soldiers for soldiers. It provides users with access to sources covering the experiences of American soldiers during the mobilization period in 1916, in the trenches in 1918 and through the occupation of Germany in 1919.
Explore the phenomenon of world's fairs from exhibitions around the world. Through official records, monographs, publicity, artwork and artifacts, this resource brings together multiple archives for research opportunities in this topic.
This primary resource preserves and makes available online the most significant British pamphlets from the nineteenth century, which are kept in UK research libraries. The pamphlets cover a wide rang e of political, social, and economic topics in nineteenth-century Britain.