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Explore millions of high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more.

Explore migration issues through a variety of media types

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• Part of The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter 2020)
• Part of Cato Institute (Aug. 3, 2021)
• Part of University of California Press
• Part of Open: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
• Part of Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter 2012)
• Part of R Street Institute (Nov. 1, 2020)
• Part of Leuven University Press
• Part of UN Secretary-General Papers: Ban Ki-moon (2007-2016)
• Part of Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 12, No. 4 (August 2018)
• Part of Leveraging Lives: Serbia and Illegal Tunisian Migration to Europe, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Mar. 1, 2023)
• Part of UCL Press

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• Harvard Library
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Library Research Guide for History

• Finding Primary Sources Online
• Newsletter February 2024
• Exploring Your Topic
• HOLLIS (and other) Catalogs
• Document Collections/Microfilm
• Outline of Primary Sources for History

Finding Primary Sources Online: Contents

General Digital Libraries

Is This Book Available Open Access?

Finding primary sources on the open web.

Finding the Right Subscription Database

Museum Objects

Local online sources, digitized harvard collections, digital libraries/collections by region or language.

• Finding Online Sources: Detailed Instructions
• Religious Periodicals
• Personal Writings/Speeches
• Oral History and Interviews
• News Sources
• Archives and Manuscripts
• Government Archives (U.S.)
• U.S. Government Documents
• Foreign Government & International Organization Documents
• French Legislative Debates/Documents
• State and City Documents
• Historical Statistics/Data
• GIS Mapping
• Public Opinion
• City Directories
• Policy Literature, Working Papers, Think Tank Reports (Grey Literature)
• Technical Reports (Grey Literature)
• Country Information
• Corporate Annual Reports
• US Elections
• Travel Writing/Guidebooks
• Missionary Records
• Reference Sources
• Harvard Museums
• Boston-Area Repositories
• Citing Sources & Organizing Research
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• Exploring Special Collections at Harvard
• Newsletter October 2024

This page lists resources for digitized historical primary sources. Resources containing books, archives/manuscripts and mixed collections are included. Databases for particular primary source types, newspapers, periodicals, personal writings, images, films, etc., are listed on their own pages in this guide. A list of primary sources types with links is given at Outline of Primary Sources for History . We have a list of digital collections, both Harvard subscription databases and free Web collections at Online Primary Source Collections for History . It is still in an early stage of development.

General resources are listed first, then the same categories of resources, where needed, are listed by region or language.

• General Full Text Searchable Digital Libraries  offer full text searches of books and periodicals.  Sometimes include archival/manuscript material, films, etc.
• Finding Primary Sources on the Open Web .  There is no one method for finding all digitized material.  Several methods are listed here - mainly item and collection-level searches
• Finding the Right Subscription Database . Subcollections, individual items (books, manuscripts, images), and full text in the hundreds of subscription (commercial) databases are generally not findable on open web searches, so it is difficult to know which databases may be useful. Methods of solving this problem are given here.

 HathiTrust Digital Library, Internet Archive, Google Book Search offer books and periodicals digitized from numerous libraries.  Each of these three digital libraries allows searching full text over their entire collections.

HathiTrust Digital Library  is a huge collection of digitized books and periodicals. Each full text item is linked to a standard library catalog record, thus providing good metadata and subject terms. Most items pre-1925 will be full text viewable.  After 1925, a much smaller number will be full text viewable.  You can search within non-full text viewable works and obtain the pages numbers where your search terms occur.   Most US, and some state, government documents will be full text viewable.

There is also a separate full text search for US government documents .

Advanced Full Text Search

In the first (Full Text) Advanced Full Text Search field, you can put terms for a full text search.  Phrases and proper names work best (exact phrase).  If you search two or more separate keywords, when you search within particular volumes, those pages containing all the keywords will sort first.

In the second search field, you can limit your full text search by:

• Title, searching the contents of a particular work, including periodical titles
• Author, searching the works of a particular author, including names of organizations and government entities.
• Subject, searching the Subject terms (same Subject terms as those used in HOLLIS) for a particular topic

Internet Archive  .

• Full text for a variety of digitized print materials and archived web pages (Wayback Machine), as well as manuscripts (a few), digitized microfilm, films, audio files, TV News, and more.  Many recent books are full text viewable if you set up a free account. You can use a Google password.
• Unlike Google and Hathitrust, IA usually offers multiple download options including e-readers.

Full Text Search Options. You can search  Internet Archive  for texts bearing a specified Subject term, Title, or Author (Creator). Shift from Search metadata to Search text contents.

• subject:Calcutta AND cholera [Use lower case for subject, title, creator]
• For a periodical: title:American Machinist AND "Spring breakage has been eliminated"
• creator:Parker, T. Jeffery AND "oosperm or unicellular embryo" [note: The correct form of the name must be used. Find this by trying out the name in Advanced Search: Creator. When you find the right name, shift from Search metadata to Search text contents ]

Much of the Internet Archive content is organized into full text searchable Collections. Thus, if you search “Civil rights” you retrieve 104,660 items which are partially organized into 178 collections (see under Media Type in the left hand column). Some of the collections are topical (Kent State Shootings) or they include issues of a particular periodical or podcast. Collections are often nested. For example:

• Medical Officer of Health reports  (British and Colonial) within  The Medical Heritage Library
• Army Times 1940-2015  within  Periodicals

By no means are all periodical issues and other items included in collections. In these cases periodical titles can be full text searched using the title:American Machinist AND "Spring breakage has been eliminated" method.

Periodicals in Internet Archive

Many are available full text in the  Internet Archive ,  including  numerous trade periodicals . Search: collection:(Periodicals) AND Railroads. Select Media Type: Collections

In Advanced search:

Any field: Your topic Collection is: Periodicals

You can search full text within a particular volume, over the whole Internet Archive, or within a particular Collection. 

• Periodicals https://archive.org/details/periodicals
• Serials in Microfilm https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm

Omit colons (:) and other punctuation in titles

These searches yield individual issues and whole runs.  Isolate whole runs by choosing Collections under Media Type.

• Medical Heritage Library which is also separately searchable  and the  Biodiversity Heritage Library which is separately searchable
• Much South Asian material
• 28 million  documents and texts , including 4.6 million digitized books
• 6 million  television news programs  and  other videos
• 14 million audio items ( Audio Archive ), including  live concerts ,  vinyl recordings ,  audiobooks ,  radio shows , and  podcasts
• 3.5 million  images
• 580,000  games  and other software titles
• 475 billion web pages stored in the  Wayback Machine

In Advanced search you can search say Description: "South Asia", and at the top left of the results page choose Media type: Collection.  When on a Collection page, you can search within by metadata or full text

The Internet Archive is so large and various that it can be difficult to navigate.  These partial lists of contents are useful:

• Lists of Internet Archive's collections
• Lists of Internet Archive's collections: External Collections
• Additional Collections

Google Book Search offers full text of:

• Largely, pre-1924 books and periodicals scanned from libraries,
• Post-1924 books and periodicals digitized in libraries. Full text searchable and snippet views displayed
• "Previews" of books submitted by publishers. Some pages are hidden.  Some, but not all, of the hidden pages are searchable.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project

World Digital Library  offers primary source materials.

The Making of the Modern World offers full text searching of works on economics and business published from 1450-1914 from the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School and the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library. Includes material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, public health, trade and transport. A great deal of more recently acquired material in the Kress Collection is not included in The Making of the Modern World .

There are several sources for finding free, open access, books online.

Try HathiTrust , Internet Archive , and Google Books as described above. Harvard members should be sure to log into HathiTrust to see the Covid Temporary Access material.

Internet Archive  offers numerous in-copyright books for one-hour (renewable) loan.  Free registration needed.

WorldCat  Open Access searches for open access material. Adjust Search in database : from WorldCat to OpenAccessContent

The Online Books Page arranges electronic texts by Library of Congress call numbers and is searchable (but not full text searchable).  Includes books not in Google Books, HathiTrust, or Internet Archive. Has many other useful features.

The Open Library , although its books reside in the Internet Archive, includes many books not findable by searching the Internet Archive directly

OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European Networks

OpenEdition - the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Good for non-US imprints

The Digital Public Library of America’s Open Bookshelf offers numerous open access books.

WorldCat (Public version) allows limiting a search to open access material. Use Advanced Search. Check Open Access . Select Format: Book if desired.

Check your local public library ebook collection. 

There is no one way to find digitized primary sources on the Internet. The following offers methods for finding online historical resources which are more focused than a simple Google search. Most find items within digital collections. A few search the full text.

In most one cannot effectively limit to archival/manuscript sources.  Specific searches usually work better than broad topical searches.  Searches for proper names often yield good results.

The Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America offers textual, visual, and sound resources contributed by numerous libraries, archives, and museums.  Searches catalog records, not full text, and links to the items on the contributors' websites.  Contains many individual items, such as letters and photographs, from digital collections.

Advanced Google Searches

General Google searches may yield very many results, and it may take much sifting through the results in order to find relevant items. Using  Google Advanced Search  with specific search terms can help yield more focused results.​ Detailed instructions for searching Google Advanced Search .

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) searches metadata and some full text, from over 2000 sources of academic open access documents.  About 60% of the documents indexed are available full text.  The metadata searched is provided by the source and tagging is often inexact.  This is a vast collection of documents and has much not available elsewhere. Use Browsing to narrow your search to subject area (e.g., Literature) or Document type (e.g., Manuscript, broadly construed).  Open Browsing and choose-Dewey Decimal (for Subject), choose major subject to see next finer level, twice.  After choosing View Records add a search term to the Subject Term or Document Type:

EROMM: European Register of Microform and Digital Masters searches its own database of records of printed and handwritten material in digital form or on microfilm from institutions worldwide and offers web search for such material.

WorldCat (the OCLC Union Catalog)

Numerous digitized collections of primary sources have records in  WorldCat .  These collections of primary sources are often swamped by ebooks on the same subject. There is no one perfect method for finding them, but the following may be tried for any topic.  Always find the proper  Subject terms for your topic  and search using those as well as any keywords.  Use Advanced search.  Detailed instructions for searching WorldCat .

OAISTER  is a subset of WorldCat for open access online academic material. It can be useful in separating digitized primary sources from the numerous ebooks in WolrldCat.  It includes digitized books and journal articles, open access publications, manuscript/archival material, photographic images, audio and visual files, data sets, and theses. It includes such a vast range of resources that digitized archival and other primary sources are lost in the abundant results if a broad topical term is used.  So it is best to use a narrow term or proper name. Thus "Act-Up" yields archival letters. It is possible to limit a search to Archival Material, but I have not found this to be useful.

To find databases available via Harvard Library by subject, go to HOLLIS Databases , scroll down to Best Databases for… and open History, or other topic.  Refine your results set on the right.  For example, for historical resources relating to women, go to Subject Category, open Show More, open Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.  Also look for research guides on your subject among the Harvard Library research guides (Open Guides by Subject).

Because there are so many subscription databases, and because each database often includes numerous subcollections, it is difficult to know which databases may contain the sources you want.  For example, Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 (ProQuest History Vault) includes U.S. State Department Office of the Executive Secretariat Crisis Files. Part 1, the Berlin Crisis, 1957-1963.  Detailed instructions for finding these subcollections .

The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections (Museum Computer Network)

68 Cultural, Historical and Scientific Collections you can Explore Online (Smithsonian)

Digital Artifacts and Images for Ethnography and Archaeology (University of Michigan)

HOLLIS Search for objects in Houghton (incomplete)

Many sources digitized by local public libraries, historical societies and other institutions may be found via the Digital Public Library of America , the state/regional portals , and worldwide, via the tools listed below .  But some will not be findable. For local sources one may visit the websites of nearby institutions.

Library Directories

• LibWeb State Libraries
• LibWeb Public Libraries

Library Resources outside the U.S. (Brown University) offers overviews of library resources worldwide

Archival Directories

Historical Society Directories

• Preservation Directory.com
• Society Hill Directories lists historical societies for the US, Canada, and Australia.  Very comprehensive but not recently updated.  Google society names for their web pages.

Harvard Digital Collections  offers item level access to digitized resources.

CURIOSity Digital Collections   offers collection level access to digitized resources.

Harvard Law School Library Digital Collections

More information in  Finding Harvard's Unique or Distinctive Primary Sources: Original and Digital

International

Asia, South

Asia, Southeast

• Australia and Pacific

Czech Republic

• France/French
• Netherlands

Russia/Eastern Europe

Switzerland

United Kingdom/English Language

• Indian Ocean Islands

Latin America/Caribbean

• Middle East/North Africa

United States

Endangered Archives Programme  offers digitized material (manuscripts, rare printed books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, photographs and sound recordings) (largely pre -mid-20th century) at risk of loss or decay in countries worldwide.  When looking fo.r material on a country, use Search all endangered archives. Do not rely on Related places or Project country (on the left).

Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) offers printed and manuscript material from numerous countries worldwide. Search/browse level: Collection, Item

Lists of Digital Collections

Other Libraries' Research Guides are often contains Lists of Digital Collections

In Google Advanced Search

• all these words: library [your topic keywords]
• any of these words: guides research resources
• List of country domain names .
• Digital collections: Rechtshistorie  offers valuable lists of  national digital libraries  and of  digitized archival material by country .

BlackPast offers resources on the history of African America and people of African ancestry worldwide.

• Bodleian History Faculty Library Bookmarks
• Digital Library Directory is a searchable collection of links to digital collections.
• ECHO: Cultural Heritage Online
• PSM-Data: Geschichte is a collection of primary (P) and secondary (S) sources, many in English.
• Internet History Sourcebooks  is a collection of digital primary source documents, largely in English.
• Internet Sites with Primary Sources for History (BGSU)
• History (University of Washington)  The Primary Sources pages of the History guides list numerous primary source collections
• Guide to Online Primary Sources (UC San Diego)
• Online Books Page Archives and Indexes
• Voice of the Shuttle: History . This is the history page of a huge collection of links to humanities (broadly conceived) resources,
• World History: Primary Source Collections Online
• WWW Virtual Library

Periodicals and Newspapers

Sources for Newspapers: Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes

Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodicals and e-Journals

African Activist Archive  (1950s-1990s) includes: pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, photographs, and audio/video recordings relating to social justice activism in supporting Africans.  Offers an international directory of non-digitized collections in repositories worldwide.

African Online Digital Library   (AODL) (Michigan State Univ) offers photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages.

Aluka Digital Library  images and full text concerning:  World Heritage Sites: Africa  and  Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa .

Digital Innovation South Africa is a digital library on the socio-political history of South Africa.

The  Liberated Africans Project  contains information on Africans liberated by international efforts, 1808-1896, to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. Includes material in the British National Archives and the Sierra Leone National Archives

OurLagosHistory.com  offers pamphlets, newspaper articles and other material on the history of Lagos.

Akkasah Photographic Archive  at NYU Abu Dhabi offers over 9000 photographs of the Middle East and North Africa 

Africana Library Catalogs & Archives   (Columbia)

African Studies Internet Resources  (Columbia) 

Primary Source Collections Online: Africa

History: Africa: Primary Sources (Univ. of Wisc.)

The AsiaPortal e-resources collection  "focuses primarily on resources for  studies of modern and contemporary Asia defined as Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Oceania. There are databases, information rich websites, e-books and journals. Most resources are freely available, but some are licensed only for use by students and staff at Nordic NIAS Council"

Japan Search digital archive search tool

Lahore University of Management Sciences Digital Library

National Digital Library of India

University of Tubingen Hermann Gundert Portal  (Indian Language Printed Material and Manuscript Collections)

University of Wisconsin Bhopal Disaster Archive

National Archives of India Digital Collections

Gokhale Library (Maharashtra, India) Printed Reports

Asiatic Society of Mumbai Digital Collections

West Bengal Public Library Network

South Asia Open Archive  extensive archive of South Asian materials including several collections in the English language

South Asian Culture: South Asian Cultural Archives and Resources for Study Resources

Short Guide to Online Archives for Students (Archives of Economic Life in South and Southeast Asia)

Harvard University Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection

Cornell South East Asia Collections

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Portal (Malayalam Language)

National Archives of Singapore Digital Collections

Neliti: Indonesia's Research Repository offers 300,000 books, datasets and journal articles from Southeast Asia.

Shiju Alex Kerala History Archive  (mainly consisting of printed texts in Malayalam but also including several English language Missionary papers)

Southeast Asia Digital Library

Australia/Pacific

Trove: Online Research Portal

Pacific Digital Library

digitalpasifik.org offers digitized records of Pacific cultural heritage, held worldwide, so that people in and of Pacific can connect with their stories.

Pacific digital resources (National Library of Australia)

History: Australia, New Zealand & Oceania: Primary Sources (U. Washington)

Canadian National Digital Heritage Index

The Glenbow Archives  online collections (1860s-1990s) offers archival records relating to Calgary, southern Alberta and Western Canada.  Special focus:  indigenous history, Mounted Police, pioneer life, ranching and agriculture, the petroleum industry, politics (especially the farmers movement), labour and unions, women, the arts (especially theatre), and business.

PORT (University of London) offers descriptions of European libraries, archives, and cultural institutions.

CERL Resources (Consortium of European Research Libraries)

      Includes link to Online Manuscripts Databases and Projects

General digital libraries

Early European Books  offers full text of books published on the Continent, beginnings to 1701. Not full text searchable.  Overview of contents .

Central and Eastern European Online Library   is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 441 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

Virtual Library Eastern Europe  (ViFaOst)

Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts from many American institutions

TEMPO: Early Modern Pamphlets Online (1486-1853) currently includes about 47,000 pamphlets largely in Dutch, German and Latin.

Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) offers digitized works Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern theology and philosophy. “Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included”.

Tools for Finding Digitized Material

Europeana: Cultural collections of Europe  is the largest European search engine for digitized books, images, manuscripts, etc. Searches catalogs records of material contributed by numerous repositories.  Not full text searchable; links to full text.  Similar to the Digital Library of America.  Search tips .

European Navigator documents the development of a united Europe from 1945 on.

Lists of Digital Libraries and Collections

European History Primary Sources  is an index of scholarly websites providing access to primary sources. Offers collection level search.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History: Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations . List of digitized documents by country

History: Europe: Primary Sources (Berkeley)

Medieval Digital Resources (Medieval Academy of America)

MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe  searches digital collections at the collection rather than the item level from European museums, archives and libraries.  Contains material not in Base, Europeana or EROMM

Open Access in Central and Eastern Europe  contains scientific and secondary source open access as well as historical primary sources.

Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia: A Research Guide: Digital Libraries and Web Resources  (Princeton)

Selected Internet Resources for History  (Western Europe)

WessWeb  (Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries)

Judaica Europeana: a network of museums, libraries and archives

Sources for periodicals: Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe)

Kulturpool  – a portal for cultural institutions in Austria with a search interface for their digital collections

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Digital Reading Room

Bildarchiv Austria : Historic photographs

Kramerius - Digital Library of Czech Books and Periodicals . 19th - early 20th centuries.

Czech web archive  

France/Francophone

ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)

Classiques Garnier Numérique  offers the Bibliographie de la littérature française, together with collections of French language primary texts and reference works, including French and francophone literature (Europe, Africa, Indian Ocean, Americas, Asia) and dictionaries and grammars from the 9th to the 20th century.

Gallica  includes the full-text for more than 100,000 volumes and 300,000 images covering the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century material. Included are dictionaries and encyclopedias, journals, manuscripts, recordings and images.

French and Francophone Digital Humanities Projects  (ACRL)

History: Europe: France (Berkeley)

Paris: Bibliotheques patrimoniales . Catalog of Paris libraries with links to digitized material.

Réseau francophone numérique contains digitized historical material from French-speaking countries worldwide.

Patrimoine numérique. Catalogue des collections  numérisées

Bibliothèque Francophone Numérique .  Scroll down for Découvrez les Collections par Zones Géographiques.

Digital Humanities Database . A searchable database of French and Francophone Studies digital projects. Collection/project level search.

Clio Guide. Ein Handbuch zu digitalen Ressourcen für die Geschichtswissenschaften

Digital Libraries

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek  offers textual and visual resources contributed by numerous libraries, archives, and museums.  Searches catalog records, not full text, and links to the items on the contributors' websites.  Contains many individual items, such as letters and photographs, from digital collections.

Deutsches Textarchiv  (1650-1900) includes texts from numerous subject areas.  Description .

Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum  hosts a large collection of mainly, but not exclusively, German books in several subject areas.

Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke  (ZVDD) is the German national portal for digitized scholarly imprints. Searches easily limited by century of publication.

Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online

Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum : Open-access collection of digitized books and other content held by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (München).

DocumentArchiv.de: Historischen Dokumenten- und Quellensammlung zur deutschen Geschichte ab 1800 is a large collection of full text German primary documents.

Datenbank Schrift und Bild 1900-1960 offers German language texts and photographs

Digitised Fonds : Direct access to the Federal Archives' files available online

German Studies: Digital Collections (ACRL)

The German Studies Collaboratory

Germanistik im Netz : Catalog search

Kulturerbe Digital   offers links to search engines for German digitized material, together with a searchable and browsable list of digitization projects.

Clio-online: Fachportal für die Geschichtswissenschaften  (Largely German)

Inventory of Digital Projects in German Studies or From German-Speaking Countries .  History page (Link dead in site)

Digitale Sammlungen: Liste digitaler Sammlungen mit deutschsprachigen gemeinfreien Büchern

Academy of Athens Digital Repository  (for manuscripts) and  Digital Library  (for the Academy's works and for their rare books collection)

Anemi - Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies

Hungarian Electronic Library . 

Digital Repository of Ireland

Internet Culturale: cataloghi e collezioni digitali delle biblioteche Italiane/Biblioteca Digitale Italiana

Storia Digitale: Contenuti Online per la Storia

The Netherlands

History: Europe: Netherlands & Low Countries (Berkeley)

Dutch National Library offers digitized works

Early Dutch Books Online (1781-1800) contains 10,000 books from the Dutch-speaking region.

Historici.nl (-2000) contains full text of numerous secondary and primary books and periodicals in Dutch history

Polona: Poland  Virtual archive

National Digital Library Polona . Middle Ages - mid-20th century.

Polish digital libraries federation offers online collections of Polish cultural and scientific institutions.

University Library in Poznan: Digital Libraries

Polish History and Culture

National Digital Library (Russia)

FEB-web - Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature . Middle Ages to present.

Digital Resources for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies describes online resources available via Harvard digital platforms or produced and freely accessible outside the Harvard system --Note the Open Access link on the Archives page. At Please find our list of open access resources for research in Soviet History there is a large list of resources.

International and Area Studies Library (Univ. of Illinois)

Slavic Studies: Resources for the study of Slavic cultures, literatures, and languages.

Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia: A Research Guide: Digital Libraries and Web Resources (Princeton)

History: Europe: Russia (Berkeley)

History: Europe: Other Eastern Europe (Berkeley)

Digital National Library of Serbia

Digital Library of Slovenia

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico  offers digitized manuscripts and early printed books from Spanish libraries and archives.

Digital Memory of Instituto Cervantes

Hispana: directorio y recolector de recursos digitales  is a central index of over 4 million digital objects from 195 repositories and 326 different projects throughout Spain.

ALVIN: Platform for digital collections and digitized cultural heritage

E-Codices, Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

e-rara.ch, the platform for digitized rare books from Swiss libraries: https://www.e-rara.ch

Searching Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early American Imprints. Since spelling in early books is variable and the long s (which looks like an f) is often used, it is important to try variant spellings and the wild card feature. ECCO offers fuzzy searching in Advanced Search

Both Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) contain full text of most books published 1475-1800 in Great Britain and North America and books published in English anywhere.

Early English Books Online  (EEBO) offers full text for works, including much ephemera and many periodicals, dated 1475-1700. Uses Library of Congress Subject Headings.

EEBO uses page images and OCR text. Although searchable by words and phrases, there are character recognition errors and full Boolean searching is not possible.  Early English Books Online Text Creation  Partnership  has input over 25,000 works and offers corrected text and full Boolean and other search capabilities for this subset of EEBO. Periodicals included in EEBO include corantos, newsbooks and periodicals included in the  Thomason Tracts .  Periodicals Search guide . Search Guide: Early English Books Online  (EEBO)

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  (ECCO) offers full text for English language works dated 1700-1800. Uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. Searchable by words and phrases based on the OCR text. Many 18th century American imprints are not included in ECCO because they are available in Early American Imprints (EAI) (next).

Both EEBO and ECCO are based on the  English Short Title Catalog  (ESTC) which has over 470,000 catalog (no full text) entries listing books, periodicals, newspapers and some ephemera printed before 1801. Works published in Britain, Ireland, British colonies, and the US are included, together with items printed elsewhere which contain significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic. Books falsely claiming London publication are included. Items omitted from ECCO because they are available in EAI are represented in the ESTC. Reprints (reissues of original works) are not usually included in ECCO; they are fully represented in the ESTC.

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)  (1770-1920) searches (full text search available) selected digital scholarship and primary source databases related to the British and American long 19th century. Where fee-based material is found, you will have to go through Harvard Library E-Resources; no automatic link to Harvard resources is available.

British History Online  (11th-19th cent.) offers printed primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. These resources cover ecclesiastical and religious history, intellectual and cultural history, local history, urban development, economic history, parliamentary history, and administrative and legal matters.

• Archives Hub : British digital collections
• Online Resources  (Institute of Historical Research)
• Research guides: Online collections  (UK National Archives)

Culture Grid is a UK national aggregator for museum collections information.  Culture Grid contributes records to Europeana .

Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900  provides federated searching for several databases of British primary historical sources, including the primary source content of  British History Online  for 1500-1900.

Manuscripts Online  (1000 to 1500) searches a variety of online resources on manuscript and early printed culture in Britain. Includes literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books on websites of libraries, archives, universities and publishers. Some of the resources searched are only accessible via subscription. These resources allow free snippet results but do not provide full access. Project blog .

Connected Histories and Manuscripts Online are not integrated into the Try Harvard Library system. When you find something in a licensed/subscription database only a snippet view will display, and you will need to go to the same resource in the Harvard system (if we have it) and redo the search.

Connected Histories and Manuscripts Online (above) include both free and subscription databases.

British Library Images Online

Images of Empire  (British Empire & Commonwealth Museum)

John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera (18th-20th centuries). Collection, housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, documents everyday life in Britain.

Science & Society Picture Library offers over 50,000 images from the Science Museum (London), the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National Railway Museum.

Visual Arts Data Service  (VADS) offers images of art, design, and posters.

Indian Ocean

Bibliothéque numérique contains a collection of digitized Mauritian rare books, journals, annual reports and government documents.

Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano Contains manuscripts, sound recordings, newspapers, maps, drawings, and other primary source materials from the national libraries of Latin American countries,

Caribbean Memory Project

Catálogo Colectivo de Impresos Latinoamericanos (1539-1850) offers a union catalog of Spanish/Portuguese letterpress material printed in Latin America, Caribbean, United States and Philippines.

Digital Library of the Caribbean Digitized archival materials originating in the Caribbean and also Latin American beyond the Caribbean.  Collections, subjects covered, and types of materials included .

Early Caribbean Digital Archive

Gale World Scholar Latin America & the Caribbean Archive includes primary source documents, academic journals and news feeds, reference sources, maps, statistics, audio and video

Manioc: Bibliothèque numérique Caraïbe, Amazonie, Plateau des Guyanes

Sabin Americana Digital Archive  (1500-1926) searchable full text of European writings on the Americas.  Description .  On Joseph Sabin .

Mexico Digital Library

Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Sources (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials) A listing of freely available digitized collections of various types of primary source materials from many Latin American countries.

History: Latin America: Primary Sources  (University of Washington guide)

History: Latin America (Berkeley)

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Guide to Latin American material on the Web, with links to primary sources.

Middle East

Discovering the Treasures of the National Library (Israel)

Qatar Digital Library

Shamela Free Digital Collection of Arabic Books

Waqfeya Arabic books with a focus on Islamic Religious Sciences

Duke University Libraries, Ottoman-Turkish Literature

IRCICA FARABİ digital library (Turkey)

American University in Cairo Digital Collections

University of Hamburg, Islamic Printed Page project

Hebrew Books

Digital Library of the Middle East

Akkasah – Digitised Photographs from the Middle East and North Africa

American Centre for Oriental Resources Library Photo Archive

Arab Image Foundation Archive  (Non Profit archive of Middle Eastern images based in Beirut) 

ArchNet archive of Middle Eastern Built Environments , curated by the Aga Khan Documentation Centre at MIT

Das Bild des Orients . Searchable in German and English

Levantine Heritage Foundation

Middle East Photograph Archive  (University of Chicago)

Palestine Poster Project Archives

Saudi Aramco World Digital Archive  (1964- ) Aramco World magazine, published/unpublished images

Field Guide to Islamic Law Online Archives & Library Collections

Manuscripts | Digital Resources and Projects in Islamic Studies

Online Archives, Digitized Collections and Resources for Middle East, North African, and Islamic(ate) Studies (Hazine)

Orient-Institut Istanbul: Databases, portals, and virtual libraries

Access to Middle East and Islamic Resources  (AMIR). Blog with links to numerous online resources on Teaching and Learning in this region

Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection Digital Collections

The Digital Public Library of America  offers textual, visual, and sound resources contributed by numerous libraries, archives, and museums.  Searches catalog records, not full text, and links to the items on the contributors' websites.  Contains many individual items, such as letters and photographs, from digital collections.

Digital Libraries by State

These websites list hundreds of local, state, and regional resources. Each is different and some are better designed than others.  Very useful when your topic has a regional focus.

• State Archives and Collaborative (NARA)
• 250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
• 71 Digital Portals to State History

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, 1760-1900

Early American Imprints, Series 1 (1639-1800)  and  Early American Imprints, Series 2 (1801-1819)  are based on the microform collection of books, pamphlets and broadsides issued in America recorded in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger P. Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography, and in American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819 by Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker.

For the colonial era, overlaps with Early English Books Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online .

Sabin Americana Digital Archive  (1500-1926) searchable full text of writings on the Americas, including many European works.  Description .  On Joseph Sabin .

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)  (1770-1920) searches (full text search available) selected digital scholarship and primary source databases related to the British and American long 19th century. Where fee-based material is found, you will have to go through Harvard Library E-Resources; no automatic link to Harvard resources is available.

American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922  offers pamphlets held at the New York Historical Society.

Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals

American Memory  (Library of Congress)

National Archives (US) Catalog  - Can be limited to archival materials online

Microfilm Publications and Original Records Digitized by Our Digitization Partners :  Ancestry ,  Fold3 ,  FamilySearch . National Archives.

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History: Online documents arranged by year

Umbra Search African American History

Discovering American Women's History Online . Offers collection level search.  Another version .

MEAD: The Magazine of Early American Datasets is an online repository of datasets on early North America. Datasets are in original format and as comma-separated-value files (.csv). Each dataset accompanied by codebook.

U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online  (SHSU)

Primary Sources for United States History  (RUSA)

Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts  is the online version of thousands of books in the Arcadia US local history series. The histories Includes photographs from archives, historical societies and private collections. Images and text are fully searchable. Searchable by location, person, event, date, ethic group and organization. Search HOLLIS+ HOLLIS tab Advanced search as Series (exact phrase) Images of America for the print books.

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 contains about 2,800 lantern slide views of American buildings and landscapes.

Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920  (Library of Congress) photograph collection includes over 25,000 items, mostly of the eastern U.S., with subject index and keyword searchable.

History of the American West (1860-1920) offers over 30,000 photographs from the Denver Public Library.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

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• Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. The database indexes more than 1,800 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955, provides full text for more than 349 journals and more than 120 books.

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• 19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.
• African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Readex) This link opens in a new window Provides access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. The collection features papers from more than 35 states and was in part created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the U.S.
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new window This database provides full-text access to articles from a number of historic African American newspapers, beginning in 1827 with Freedom's Journal. The collection contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and offers first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day.
• African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window This collection features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
• African Newspapers: British Library Collection This link opens in a new window This resource features 64 fully searchable newspapers published in Africa before 1900 and originally archived by the British Library. Students and researchers will find news and analysis covering the European exploration of Africa, colonial exploitation, economics, Atlantic trade, the mapping of the continent, early moves towards self-governance, the growth of South Africa and much more. This database along with Readex sister databases African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2 can be searched concurrently via a single interface for access to nearly every newspaper published on the African continent in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• African Newspapers [Series 1 & 2] This link opens in a new window This resource features over 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Content includes English and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This database along with Readex sister databases African Newspapers, British Library Collection can be searched concurrently via a single interface for access to nearly every newspaper published on the African continent in the 19th and early 20th centuries. See: Africa's Historical Newspapers
• Al Manhal This link opens in a new window Al Manhal is a major full-text searchable database of scholarly and analytical publications from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Material is primarily in Arabic, with selected material in English. Includes ebooks, peer-reviewed journals, theses, and think tank publications covering the arts, architecture, biography, business, culture, economics, classical and contemporary languages and literatures, education, history, geography, Islamic studies, Islamic finance and banking, law, media and communications, political science and international relations, science and technology, and the social sciences.
• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1-5 This link opens in a new window Provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. This rich library from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) covers subjects including advertising, health, women's issues, education, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
• American National Biography Online This link opens in a new window Offers full-text biographical articles for more than 18,300 men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the United States. No. of concurrent users: 5.
• American Periodicals Series (1741-1940) This link opens in a new window Page-images from more than 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers illuminating the development of American culture, politics, and society across 150 years. Articles can be searched by author, source, or words in the complete text.
• Ancestry Library Edition This link opens in a new window The largest and broadest online collection of genealogical records. Each record collection includes detailed information about the source, and many collections include images of primary source documents and/or transcriptions, in addition to unique name indexes. New content and updates are added weekly.
• Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: The Middle East Online Series 1 This link opens in a new window This database provides searchable, primary source documents held by the National Archives, Kew (U.K.) that chronicle the politics, wars, administration, and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab Israeli conflict.
• ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window ArchiveGrid contains the descriptions of nearly one million archival collections held in archives around the world.
• Archives of Sexuality & Gender. LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 This link opens in a new window Includes Parts l & ll. Part I brings together primary source content on the social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Includes the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more. Part ll highlights marginalized groups—even within the LGBTQ community—and enables users to draw new connections across the development of LGBTQ culture and activism through access to key publications.
• Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia This link opens in a new window A varied array of records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, from the mid-seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, offering Western perspectives on all aspects of Chinese culture and society and Western interactions with China and Southeast Asia.
• Area Studies: Japan This link opens in a new window A wide range of sources, by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others, documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window Covers the scholarly journal literature in the arts and humanities. Full indexing of 1,144 leading arts and humanities journals, and of selected relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
• Atlanta Constitution (Historical) This link opens in a new window As the major daily newspaper in the Atlanta area, The Atlanta Constitution (1869-1875; 1881-1984), provides insight into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of the southeastern United States from Reconstruction through the late 20th century. Offers full page and article images with searchable full text.
• Baltimore Afro-American (Historical, 1893-1988) This link opens in a new window The Baltimore Afro-American (Historical), a prominent, historic African American newspaper, offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• Baltimore Sun (Historical 1837-1991) This link opens in a new window The Baltimore Sun (1837-1991) provides unprecedented access to news from this major port city. The database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• Bibliography of British and Irish History This link opens in a new window The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most extensive guide available to published writing on British and Irish history. It covers the history of British and Irish relations with the rest of the world, including the British empire and the Commonwealth, as well as British and Irish domestic history.
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century (History Vault) This link opens in a new window The link goes to the History Vault main page; then look for Black Freedom Struggle under Browse Collections. This database gives allows researchers to study both well-known and unheralded events in the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of men and women who waged it. Consists of two modules: "Federal Government Records," and "Organizational Records and Personal Papers."
• Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window A multi-faceted resource that includes: The Chicago Defender, 1909-1975, an influential historical African American newspaper; International Index to Black Periodicals, coverage from 1902 onward; Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience-- Topical overviews by leading Black Studies scholars; Dissertations-- Full-text dissertations
• Brill Online Reference Works This link opens in a new window
• British Library Newspapers: Pts. l & ll, 1800-1900 This link opens in a new window British Library Newspapers, Pts. I & II, offer full runs of national, regional, and local nineteenth-century British newspapers, taken directly from the extensive holdings of the British Library. The papers provide a broad, yet detailed view of British life in the nineteenth century; from business to sport, from politics to entertainment and the arts. The two collections together cover 69 titles.
• British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations, and the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem, 1920-1944 This link opens in a new window This collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Jerusalem pertaining to the protection of interests of American citizens,foreign trade, shipping, and immigration.
• Caribbean Newspapers This link opens in a new window This database is the largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in the Caribbean. Featuring over 140 newspapers from 22 islands, this unique resource is a comprehensive primary resource for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region as far back as the early 18th century. The database chronicles the region’s evolution across two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other news items.
• Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834-1922 This link opens in a new window Digital access to official British government records relating to the region, from the decline of the Silk Road, through the diplomatic confrontation between the British and Russian Empires known as the “Great Game”, to the influence of the emergent Soviet Union in the 20th century.
• Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window The Historical Chicago Defender (1909-1975), an influential, historical African American newspaper, offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The Proquest collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
• Chicago Tribune (Historical) This link opens in a new window The Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1998) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The Collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every issue through 1998.
• Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955 This link opens in a new window Comprehensive documentation examines the political background of the civil war, the failed efforts of American mediation, and the ramifications of Communist victory.
• Churchill Archive This link opens in a new window The papers of Winston S. Churchill comprising more than 80,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, and including Churchill's official and personal correspondence. The database replicates the Churchill Papers on deposit at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
• Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective This link opens in a new window Full text of articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Text begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Major events described in detail by both Union and Confederate papers, so their opposing perspectives are readily available.
• Cold War Eastern Europe This link opens in a new window Sourced from The National Archives, U.K., this database offers access to 16,691 files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for reporting on the Soviet Union and the former communist states of Eastern Europe from 1953-1982. Documents are primarily in English, with high-resolution, full-text searchable images. Issues covered include state leadership, party politics, protest movements, agricultural output, international trade agreements, scientific progress, minority populations, religion, sporting events, state-run media and popular culture. Users accessing this title should use the GW VPN
• Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new window Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included is a digitized version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, which contains bibliographic records and extracts for thousands of additional documents.
• Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the countries of the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. Beginning with the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the documents trace the events of the following 150 years, including the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis and post-Suez Western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Country Intelligence Reports/State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research Reports: Korea This link opens in a new window This series consists of reports, studies, and surveys on various topics of interest to the Department of State. The reports vary from short memorandums to detailed, documented studies. The topics range from individual commodities or countries to the economic and political characteristics of whole regions. This collection consists of research and intelligence reports prepared during 1941-1947 on Korea.
• CPC History Database (党史数据库) This link opens in a new window This database covers over ten thousand periodicals of 200 kinds established and participated in by Chinese Communist Party before 1949.
• CQ Historic Documents This link opens in a new window Presently contains 32 annual volumes of primary sources, each volume with approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. Documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions, to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
• Dacheng pre-1949 journals full-text database (大成 老旧刊全文数据库) This link opens in a new window Consists of approximately 7,000 Chinese periodicals published from 1830 to 1949 in all fields of knowledge as well as popular journals. A unique and valuable source for the studies of Chinese politics, history, culture, society, philosophy, literature and arts in that period.
• Declassified Documents Reference System This link opens in a new window Declassified Documents Reference System, now U.S. Declassified Documents Online, provides access to declassified U.S. government documents drawn from Presidential libraries.
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in America from 1639-1800. Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans (14 vols., 1903-34, 1955-59); and subsequent bibliographic works by Roger Bristol, James Mooney and Clifford Shipton. Includes more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages.
• Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 This link opens in a new window Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America in the early part of the 19th century. Based on the noted “American Bibliography, 1801-1819” by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, offers more than four million pages from over 36,000 items. Complements Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800.
• Early American Newspapers This link opens in a new window This database features images and full-text from newspapers across the country. While assembling the original collection, Readex focused its publishing efforts on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, concentrating primarily on those papers that began publication before 1820.
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window EEBO contains over 100,000 books published in English since 1475. Based on Pollard & Redgrave's "Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640)" and Wing's "Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700)," plus revised editions and supplements. Subjects covered include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, math, and science. Update: Texts continue to be added to the online version as they are scanned from the microfilm.
• East India Company (Modules Hill) This link opens in a new window Unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.
• EEBO TCP (Text Creation Partnership) This link opens in a new window Contains some searchable and readable editions of Early English Books (texts published in English since 1475). Based on Pollard & Redgrave's "Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640)" and Wing's "Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700)," plus revised editions and supplements. Subjects covered include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, math, and science. For more non-searchable full text of Early English Books, see EEBO.
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
• Empire Online This link opens in a new window Database will contain, when complete, over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed documents, enabling researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society. Section I (now available) examines cultural contacts throughout five centuries of Empire, from Columbus to decolonization. It draws upon sources such as diaries and eyewitness accounts of European travelers, correspondence and periodical literature.
• Encyclopedia of American Studies This link opens in a new window Published by Johns Hopkins University Press with the sponsorship of the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives both American and within the global American Studies movement.
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new window Indexing of printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. Among subjects covered are natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and slavery. Based on "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750," the recognized authoritative bibliography on the subject.
• Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s This link opens in a new window Covers the internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements to change American government and society during the 1960s. Includes the FBI files on the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society, the Counterintelligence Program of the FBI and more.
• First World War: Personal Experiences This link opens in a new window Hundreds of captivating personal collections, including diaries, scrapbooks, journals, albums, personal items, and more, that reveal the voices of men and women during the Great War.
• Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 This link opens in a new window Digital collection of British Foreign Office documents from the National Archives of the UK. Material types include: Diplomatic dispatches, Telegrams, Newspaper cuttings and transcripts, Maps, Photographs, Political and economic reports, Accounts of visits and tours, Minutes of meetings, Conference proceedings, Letters, leaflets and other ephemera. Content covers: 1947-1964, Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era; 1965-1971, South Asian Convicts and Independence for Bangladesh; 1972-1980, Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan.
• Foreign Office Files for Japan 1919-1952 This link opens in a new window This collection of British Foreign Office documents provides significant insight into the events between the end of WWI and the end of World War II, crucial to understanding Japan politics during this period. Topics covered include ultra-nationalism and the Japanese agenda of imperial dominance in the Far East, employment and social conditions in a time of global economic instability, and the ‘Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. These documents record relations with Axis Powers in the context of changing alliances, the deterioration of relations with the Allies as World War II reached the Pacific, and American post-war occupation of Japan.
• Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 This link opens in a new window Offers a significant collection of British diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles addressing the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution are examined in detail, as are the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia. Commercial interests are also scrutinized, with in-depth analyses of Middle East nations’ economic stability and reviews of international arm sales policies. The activities of oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia are closely monitored, with particular reference to the Gulf States and members of OPEC.
• HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly: 1857-1877) This link opens in a new window Searchable page images from Harper's Weekly magazine for 1857-1877, the Civil War era through Reconstruction.
• HathiTrust This link opens in a new window HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. To log in, select The George Washington University as your institution, then log in with your UserID and regular GW password.
• History of Afghanistan This link opens in a new window The Siraj al-tawarikh is the most important history of Afghanistan ever written. The roots of much of the fabric of Afghanistan's society today - tribe and state relations, the rule of law, gender issues, and the economy - are elegantly and minutely detailed in this immense work.
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine This link opens in a new window Integrates four bibliographies to create the definitive international database for the history of science, technology, and medicine. It reflects the influences of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present. Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations and other materials.
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window The Parliamentary Papers are the most detailed primary source for Nineteenth Century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy. This comprehensive digital collection includes all 79,000 papers issued by the House of Commons between 1801-1900. Simultaneous Users: unlimited
• Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window This resource opens research into a range of subjects from an indigenous perspective. It has been developed with the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned. It presents the publications of a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016, with a strong concentration from 1970 forward.
• International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window Provides a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) covering Europe, North Africa and the New East (300-1500).
• Japan Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window Searchable full-image archive of this English-language newspaper published in Japan from its inception in 1897 through 2020.
• JFK's Foreign Affairs and International Crises, 1961-1963 This link opens in a new window This collection provides insights into President Kennedy's views on foreign affairs, U.S. leadership of the "West," and various worldwide crises. There are documents on the Bay of Pigs and Cuba, Berlin, American efforts to support Third World countries, balance of payments and foreign trade, Alliance for Progress and Latin American relations, nuclear weapons and testing, NATO and the Multilateral Force in Europe, Southeast Asia and regional security, and much more.
• JSTOR This link opens in a new window Back issues of core scholarly journals in subjects including African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Includes free Early-Journal Content, journals published before 1923 in the U.S. and before 1870 outside of the U.S.
• Kokushi Daijiten (国史大辞典) This link opens in a new window Accessible through the JapanKnowledge site, Kokushi Daijiten is one of the largest encyclopedias of Japanese history. It encompasses every aspect of Japan's history, including entries in related fields such as archaeology, folklore, religion, art, Japanese language and literature, and geography. Users can search among the main entries (about 54,000 entries) as well as subentries (about 4,000 entries carefully chosen from subentries of all levels), or search by articles' references or authors.
• Korea political & economic reports, 1882-1970 This link opens in a new window This comprehensive collection of facsimile documents contains all available diplomatic reports regarding Korea that are housed in the British National Archives. The period covered by the collection begins with the Korean monarchy, and includes the time spent under Japanese rule, the split into north and south Korea, and the Korean War.
• Latin American Newspapers [Series 1 & 2] This link opens in a new window Latin American Newspapers offer significant coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and a dozen other countries, these resources provide a wide range of viewpoints from diverse Latin American cultures. The newspapers chronicle the evolution of Latin America over two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items.
• LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window This database provides access to LGBTQ+ studies scholarship, popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus.
• Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918 This link opens in a new window This series consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the United States' diplomatic post in Liberia. The topics covered by these records include all aspects of relations with Liberia, and interactions of American citizens with the Liberian government and people.
• Lily, The: A Temperance and Abolitionist Newspaper This link opens in a new window Provides full-text articles from "The Lily, A ladies' journal devoted to temperance and literature," issued from 1849 until 1853. The newspaper began as a temperance journal, but gradually began to include articles about other subjects of interest to women, many from the pen of social activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (pseudonym: "sunflower").
• Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window Full-text searchable digital editions of all volumes of the Loeb Classical Library currently in print, with new texts added biannually. Provides Greek and Latin text with facing English translations.
• Los Angeles Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window The Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-1999) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
• Miami Herald (1911-Today) This link opens in a new window This historical archive of Miami’s oldest surviving newspaper, known today as The Miami Herald, provides an unmatched record of daily life in South Florida. Additionally, this newspaper has a strong reputation for its international reporting from the Caribbean and Latin America.
• National Anti-Slavery Standard This link opens in a new window This publication was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. The newspaper contained essays, debates, speeches, events, reports and anything else deemed newsworthy in relation to the question of slavery in the United States and other parts of the world. Covers years 1840-1870.
• National Security Archive (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Declassified documents regarding critical U.S. foreign policy decisions organized into 62 collections.
• New York Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window Offers full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times. Includes digital reproductions of every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.
• New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (Historical) This link opens in a new window The New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
• Norfolk Journal and Guide (Historical) This link opens in a new window This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1916-2003
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window Offers a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished.
• North China Herald This link opens in a new window The North China Herald was a major English-language newspaper published in China from the 1850s to the 1940s. It is a major source for the history of the foreign presence in China in that period. It was the official journal for British consular notifications and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and published translations of Chinese official notifications and news from across China.
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961 (History Vault) This link opens in a new window Contains 3,500 World War II and Cold War era special, classified reports about Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa commissioned by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the U.S. State Department and written by the days’ leading scholars. At the time, the reports helped to shape U.S. foreign policy decisions. Choose George Washington University from the drop down box.
• Oxford Bibliographies Online: African American This link opens in a new window Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
• Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History This link opens in a new window Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics This link opens in a new window This encyclopedia reviews and interprets a broad array of research on Latin American politics, including topics related to political institutions, processes, and parties; social movements; political economy; racial and gender politics; and Latin America's international relations.
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History This link opens in a new window Offers substantive, peer-reviewed articles; regularly updated.
• Papers of George Washington This link opens in a new window The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition (PGWDE) contains the entire text of the fifty-two volumes of the print edition published by the University of Virginia Press through 2005, in six series: Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement.
• Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window Historical (not current) coverage of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, going back to Volume 1 for most titles (in some cases, over 200 years). Full-text articles are available from several hundred titles.
• Pravda Digital Archive This link opens in a new window A complete archive extending back to 1912 of Pravda, official newspaper of the Communist Party of Russia/the USSR. Issues are displayed as full-page images.
• Presidential Recordings Digital Edition This link opens in a new window This rich resource features annotated, searchable transcripts of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon White House tapes. Audio files, as available, accompany the transcripts.
• ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window (Formerly LexisNexis Congressional.) A comprehensive source of Congressional information including bills, hearings, testimonies, and legislative histories.
• Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) This link opens in a new window Full-text, full image of Renmin Ribao (人民日报, People’s Daily), the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the central newspaper of record for the modern Chinese state. The database features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and 100% searchable text. The interface is in Simplified Chinese and content before 1955 is in Traditional Chinese. Coverage: 1946-5/2012.
• SHAFR Guide Online This link opens in a new window An annotated bibliography of historical work covering the entire span of U.S. foreign relations since 1600.
• Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (《大美晚报》） This link opens in a new window This database covers issues from 1943-1946 of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury This English-language newspaper represented the perspective of Shanghai's American business community.
• Slavery and the Law (History Vault) This link opens in a new window Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 states and the District of Columbia. This database also includes the State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
• Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window Primary sources and histories of slavery, with an emphasis on legal aspects. Includes all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.
• Socialism on Film This link opens in a new window A collection of documentaries, features and newsreels produced primarily in the communist world and later re-edited for British and Western audiences. Originating from nations throughout the USSR, Asia, Europe and Latin America, these films have been digitized from the original 16mm and 35mm reels.
• Taiwan Academic Classics This link opens in a new window Taiwan Academic Classics offers classic works from China/Taiwan and contemporary scholarly thought from academic societies in Taiwan and around the world. The federated search platform of Taiwan Academic Classics incorporates full text searchable Web access to core journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1928 to the present with ancient compilations from China's earliest Dynasties. Taiwan Academic Classics includes authoritative archives and historic documents from the era of the Chinese Republic. Taiwan Academic Classics integrates a total of 2 billion characters, 300 different journals, 6,630 ancient works and more than 100,000 dissertations, with contributions from 35,000 authors.
• Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) This link opens in a new window Offers full-text Taiwanese periodicals in five main categories: Social Sciences, Humanities, Applied Sciences, Medical & Life Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Searchable in English or Chinese. Abstracts are in English. Full-text (PDF) articles are in Chinese.
• Taiwan Shibao (Taiwan JIHO) 臺灣時報 This link opens in a new window Access to this Japanese magazine published by the Taiwan Governor House during the Japanese colonial period. Issues included were politics, industry, trade, transportation, military, education, judiciary, police, civil engineering, technology, handicraft and arts.
• Taiwan Wenxian Congkan (Taiwan History: 618-1945) 臺灣文獻叢刊 This link opens in a new window Covers a time span from the Tang Dynasty to the Japanese colonial period and incorporates local histories, and official documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The database covers a wide variety of dimensions of Taiwan, including history, geography, local customs, politics, economy, sociology, laws and culture.
• Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations, 1989-1993 This link opens in a new window This collection offers unique primary source documents relating to the demonstrations and their aftermath: public mail, memoranda, reports, cables, meeting notes, news clippings and much more.
• Times Digital Archive, 1785-2011 This link opens in a new window The Times of London has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the Falklands War. "The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2011" makes 200 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th and 20th century history.
• U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945-1995 This link opens in a new window This unique collection of over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond.
• U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 This link opens in a new window Since 1945, the U.S. intelligence community has had to cover a half dozen major wars and several dozen smaller but equally bloody armed conflicts in the Middle East, as well as innumerable civil wars, border clashes, armed insurgencies, and terrorist attacks. This comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community's spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran's nuclear program.
• Virginia Gazette 1736-1780 This link opens in a new window Published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, The Virginia Gazette contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries. The paper appeared in three competing versions from a succession of publishers over the years, some published concurrently, and all under the same title.
• Washington Evening Star This link opens in a new window This database provides a searchable facsimile of every page of every issue of the Washington Evening Star from its founding on December 16, 1852 to the day it ceased publishing on August 7, 1981. Considered the “paper of record” for national political coverage, the Star was one of the highest profile publications in the nation. The paper covers nearly 130 years of American history, offering significant new research opportunities from the Antebellum Period to World War I to the Post-Vietnam Era.
• Washington Post (Historical,1877-2006) This link opens in a new window Online archival access to The Washington Post. Includes page images from every issue—cover to cover—in downloadable PDF files. Fully searchable.
• Women's Studies Archive: Women's Issues and Identities This link opens in a new window This collection traces the path of women’s issues through the nineteen and twentieth centuries—pulling primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window A collection of full-text primary materials documenting various movements and events in the history of women's social reform activities. Sources include documents, images, and books, and are organized around topical document projects.

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Retrospective digitization project of full-text journal articles published in Africa. Journal articles hosted on the Archive extend back to the first issue (if available) and end with the last pre-current issue.

Database of literature written 1955-present covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

The research, publications, speeches and archives of the leading international affairs think tank, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London. High level analysis and research on almost 100 years of global events and issues. Includes 'behind the doors' insight into the real movers and shakers, influencers and deal brokers. For researchers of international affairs, economics, law, and business, diplomacy, security and terrorism, environment, development, war and peace studies.

40+ journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

Periodical collection of hand selected titles for analysts, risk management professionals and students of military science, history, social science.

40+ journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

Prizewinning history books, published electronically. Topics include, but are not limited to, Africa, Colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, Military History and History of Foreign Relations. 1999-present.

Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, which is covered by America: History and Life with Full Text ) from 1450 forward.

Includes world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. Provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.

Major collections of journal articles and essays in the humanities, including Essay and General Literature Index, Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, and Humanities Source.

Includes these collections:

• Essay and General Literature Index: 1985-present. Archaeology, architecture, art, children's literature, classical studies, drama, economics, fiction, film , folklore, history, linguistics, music, poetry, political science, religion, women's studies.  
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984: Covers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews.  
• Humanities Abstracts: Detailed indexing for almost 700 periodicals covering the humanities—of which 470 are peer-reviewed—dating as far back as 1984, including feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.  
• Humanities Full Text: 1984-present. Covers archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, food, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, space, world history, world literature.  
• Humanities Source: Covers literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing, and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.  

1895-present (varies by title). Includes citations from 1,600 scholarly journals in all areas of Medieval and Renaissance studies (400-1700).

Also included are: Iter Italicum, Renaissance Quarterly Online, Early Theatre, REED Newsletter, Renaissance and Reformation and the International Directory of Scholars. Browse the collections

Full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science, plus full text ebooks and open access content.

Mostly 3-5 years & older full text. African American studies, anthropology, botany, business, ecology, economics, education, general science, geography, history, language & literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, statistics. Dates of coverage vary by journal title. All go back to the very first issue published, but most have a "moving wall" embargo that excludes issues from the most recent X years (where X can be anywhere from 0 up to 10 years, depending on the particular journal; most are in the 3 to 5 year embargo range). Hint: Use documents to find useful keywords and concepts, and retrieve matching JSTOR content, via JSTOR Text Analyzer .

Lists articles, notes, etc. in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays on all aspects of medieval studies.

Provides a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. Its editorial staff is based at the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, and the project is supported by over 50 teams of contributors in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. The IMB offers an unparalleled tool for medievalists to identify the contents of current work published throughout Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region. The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies.

1900-present. Systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.

1972-present. Covers sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business, and education.

Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Its sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Women's Studies International includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.

Provides full text, searchable access to important American magazines and newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Provides full text, searchable access to: African-American Newspapers, Parts I-XII

• The Christian Recorder (1861-1902)  
• The Colored American (1837-1841)  
• Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1855; 1859-1863)  
• Freedoms Journal (1827-1829)  
• The National Era (1847-1860)  
• The North Star (1847-1851)  
• Provincial Freeman (1854-1857)  
• Weekly Advocate (1837-1837)

Civil War, Parts I-IV Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1898 The Liberator, Parts I & II, 1831-1840 The Lily, 1849-1856 The Pennsylvania Gazette, Parts I-IV, 1728-1800 Virginia Gazette

Magazine content from Ebony (1945-2014), JET (1951-2014), and the African American Historical Serials Collection (1816-1992).

• Ebony Magazine Archive One of the key African-American magazines of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more. Includes covers and advertisements. Covers 1945 - 2014.  
• JET Magazine Archive: Covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus. It includes over 3,000 issues providing a broad view of news, culture, and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.  
• African American Historical Serials Collection: Newspapers and magazines from 1816 through 1992, in addition to reports and annuals from various African-American organizations, including churches and educational and service institutions.  

1740-1940. Special interest & general magazines; literary & professional journals; children's & women's magazines; other historically significant periodicals.

Collections of primary source documents from American history.

Includes: America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922; America's Historical Imprints; Afro-Americana Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1535-1922; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; African American Periodicals, 1825-1995; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.

Collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Includes manuscript, book, and newspaper content.

Late twentieth century AP office archives from bureaus in Europe and the Middle East.

Content of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive. Includes wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more from the European Bureaus Collection: 1952-2000 and Middle East Bureaus Collection: 1967-2005.

Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspapers, and more.

Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, Black Abolitionist Papers, and much more. At the heart of Black Studies Center is Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, consisting of essays that provide an introduction to major topics in Black Studies. Black Studies Center provides the historical full-text of one of the most influential black newspapers in the United States, The Chicago Defender, as well as the Michigan Chronicle (1936-2010).

Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1955), Brooklyn Life (1890-1924), Brooklyn Life & Activities of Long Island Society (1924-1931), fully searchable.

A freely accessible repository of digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present.

Digital archives of English-language periodicals published in, or about, China.

Includes these files: Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals, 1817-1949: A collection of 17 English-language periodicals published in, or about, China during a period of over 130 years, extending from 1817 until 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded. This corresponds to the periods of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republican Era (1911-1949), when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic with modern approaches to politics, literature, education, public morality, and intellectual life. Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China (1854-1949): Official correspondence, despatches, reports, memoranda, and private and confidential letters - constitute invaluable and often unique evidence of Chinese life, the economy and politics through the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Revolution of 1911, the May 30 Movement, the two Sino-Japanese Wars, and the Chinese Civil War.

Digitized historic American newspapers published from 1836-1922 produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program.

Collection of Confederate Newspapers published from 1861 to 1865.

Digital images of books published during the 18th Century. Full-text searching; access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science & more.

Agricultural newspapers and periodicals from 1841 to 2010, mostly early 20th century.

Content of The Flint Journal, including articles, illustrations, advertisements, and other content. Includes images (1898-1995; 2018 to present), and text (1995 to present).

The Flint Journal is also available on microfilm on the 1st floor of the Thompson Library, covering 1898 - 2018. These years of coverage are included in the online version, but if you need full page or article images for the years 1996 - 2017, you can scan them on the microfilm reader . If you only need the text of an article from the years 1996 - 2017, it is available in the online version.

Provides cross-searching of British and American historical newspapers and periodical archive collections, ranging from the 18th century until a few years ago.

Includes these newspapers and collections of newspapers, which can also be searched separately:

• 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers  
• 19th Century UK Periodicals Digital Archive  
• British Library Newspapers, 1732-1950  
• Daily Mail Historical Archive  
• Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020  
• Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2021  
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003)  
• Independent Historical Archive, 1986-2016  
• International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013  
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950  
• Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991  
• Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers  
• Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957  
• Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992  
• Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2021  
• Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016  
• Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019  
• Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive, 1910-2000  
• Times Literary SupplementHistorical Archive, 1902-2014

Combines primary source databases with British, American, and some international content. Allows analysis of content using frequency and term-relationship tools.

• American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society  
• Archives of Sexuality & Gender  
• Archives Unbound  
• Associated Press Collections Online  
• Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture  
• British Library Newspapers  
• China and the Modern World  
• Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004  
• The Economist Historical Archive  
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online  
• The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003  
• The Independent Historical Archive  
• Indigenous Peoples of North America  
• The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991  
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970  
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926
• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926  
• The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources  
• The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926  
• The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1823-1978  
• The Making of the Modern World  
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online  
• Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals  
• Picture Post Historical Archive  
• Political Extremism and Radicalism  
• Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970  
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection  
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive  
• Smithsonian Collections Online  
• The Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2021
• The Telegraph Historical Archive  
• The Times Digital Archive  
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive  
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online  
• Women's Studies Archive

Searches content from a number of sources, including both partner content digitized by Google through their News Archive Partner Program and online archival materials that they've crawled.

Search results can include content that is freely accessible as well as content that requires a fee: be sure to check Journal Finder to see if the Thompson Library provides access to a source before paying a fee for it. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the topics they are searching. In addition to seeing results ranked by relevancy, users can also see a historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically generated timeline.

Online version of the 19th-century American magazine Harper's Weekly, with original page images and searchable full-text.

Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.

Includes these collections: 

• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1-5
• American Civil War Periodicals, 1855-1868
• American Political and Social Movements Periodicals, 1815-1884
• American Political Periodicals, 1715-1891
• Canadian Periodicals, 1790-1877
• Current Events and History Periodicals, 1691-1912
• Foreign Language Periodicals in America, 1684-1904
• Hobbies, Socialization, and Sport Periodicals, 1775-1889
• Masons, Odd-Fellows and Other Societal Periodicals, 1794-1877
• Military and Law Enforcement Periodicals, 1691-1877
• Periodicals from Around the World, 1691-1880
• Periodicals of the American West, 1779-1881
• Periodicals of the British Empire and Its Colonies, 1702-1879
• Slavery and Abolition, 1789-1887

Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century.

• Women's Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844  
• Women's Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1845-1865  
• Women's Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1866-1891  

Digital archive of articles published by interned Japanese-Americans between 1942 and 1945.

Offers rare first-person accounts and seldom-heard voices. It contains 24,838 pages of articles published by interned Japanese-Americans between 1942 and 1945. The 25 newspapers presented here are sourced from the Library of Congress. Many of the titles in this archive are complete or substantially complete. Editions have been carefully collated and omissions are noted. Although articles in these files frequently appear in Japanese, most of the papers are in English.

Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Searchable, browsable online access The Michigan Daily, UM-Ann Arbor's student-run newspaper.

Digital newspapers published in Michigan, mostly before 1923.

Over 800 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and more than 850,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Keyword(s): United States

Searchable access to the backfile of the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), in full digitized page images.

Searchable access to the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), from the first issue on September 18, 1851 to three months ago. Reproduces the complete full text of every issue in its original printed form, in full page images digitized from microfilm. Also incorporates indexing and subject headings from the New York Times Index, 1851-1993.

Digital primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.

Primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more from around the world, including from national libraries, academic and public libraries, and a variety of special collections, archives, and repositories.  Currently contains four collections:

• Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange   
• British Politics and Society  
• British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture  
• European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection

Custom cross-search of full-text backfiles of dozens of United States and international English-language newspapers. Click "More" for individual titles.

• Arizona Republican (1890-1922)  
• Atlanta Constitution (1868-1984)  
• Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)   
• Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)   
• Baltimore Sun (1837-1996)  
• Chicago Defender (1909-1975)   
• Chicago Tribune (1849-2012)  
• Christian Science Monitor (1908-2008)  
• Cincinnati Enquirer (1841-2009)  
• Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)   
• Dayton Daily News (1898-1922)  
• Detroit Free Press (1831-1922)  
• The Guardian (1821-2003) & The Observer (1791-2003)  
• Hindustan Times (1924-2000)  
• Indianapolis Star (1903-2004)  
• Jerusalem Post (1932-2008)  
• Kansas City Call (1919-2010)  
• Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)   
• Los Angeles Times (1881-2013)  
• Louisville Courier Journal (1830-1922)  
• Louisville Defender (1951-2010)  
• Michigan Chronicle (1939-2010)  
• Minneapolis Star Tribune (1867-2001)  
• Montreal Gazette (1785-2010)  
• Nashville Tennessean (1812-1922)  
• New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)   
• New York Times (1851-2018)  
• Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003)  
• Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)  
• Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)   
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1786-2003)  
• South China Morning Post (1903-2001)  
• St. Petersburg Times / Tampa Bay Times (1901-2009)  
• U.S. Midwest Collection (various years of coverage)  
• Vancouver Sun (1912-2010)  
• Wall Street Journal (1889-2004)  
• Washington Post (1877-2005)  
• Windsor Star (1893-2010)  

1890-present. General, historical events, business, humanities, science, social science.

Includes two collections:

• Readers Guide Full Text Mega includes indexing of over 450 periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 journals as far back as 1994. Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more.  
• Readers Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers Guide to Periodical Literature. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.  

(Descriptions from the publisher.)

Archive of Smithsonian Magazine (1970-2010) and Air & Space Magazine (1986-2010).

The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum and research complex--home to 19 museums, 9 research centers and over 137 million collection objects for the study of art, history, culture, and science. The Smithsonian's collections and fields of study focus on the American Experience, World Cultures, a Biodiverse Planet, and Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe. Combining the full archive of Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine, this resource brings these study themes into the pathway of students and faculty worldwide. It presents a unique and comprehensive insight into history, science, nature, the arts, innovation, technology, and world culture. Available in a fully searchable digital archive, these publications bring depth and expert coverage of high-demand topics in support of the Smithsonian Institution's mission of increase and diffusion of knowledge. Additional years will be added annually.

English translations of key historical sources in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, and Armenian, from the time of late antiquity and the early middle ages. Includes introductions and notes.

Brings together instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of conduct.

Searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books of instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines.

Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. These key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture. Includes: Includes these magazines:

• Better Homes and Gardens (1922-2005)
• Chatelaine (1928-2005)
• Cosmopolitan (1925-2005)
• Cosmopolitan (1886) (1886-1925)
• Essence (1970-2005)
• Good Housekeeping (1885-2005)
• Ladies' Home Journal (1885-2005)
• Parents (1926-2005)
• Redbook (1903-2005)
• Seventeen (1944-2005)
• Town & Country (1846-2005)
• Vogue Archive (1892-present)
• WIN News (1975-2003)
• Woman's Day (1937-2005)
• Women's Wear Daily (1910 - 6 months ago)

Numerous publications for women. and including many female writers.

Includes the following collections, which can also be searched separately:

• Religious Periodicals for Women, Children, and Families, 1804-1878  

Facts on File coverage of all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.

A Read Aloud button is available for text-to-speech for much of the content. Keyword(s): United States

Provides full text searchable access to historical newspapers published in Africa, East Europe, Latin America, and South Asia.

World Newspaper Archive is a fully-searchable, digital collection of historical newspapers from around the world. It includes a gradually expanding digitized backfiles of 19th and 20th century newspapers from Africa (1800-1922), East Europe (1835-1922), Latin America and Latin America Series 2 (1805-1922) and South Asia (1864-1922). As the project expands, it will grow to include newspapers from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Digital primary collections sourced from around the world.

Tips for using this collection are available in the Adam Matthew Digital Help Centre . Includes these collections:  

• African American Communities  
• Age of Exploration  
• America in World War Two  
• American History  
• American Indian Histories and Cultures  
• American West  
• Apartheid South Africa, 1948 - 1980  
• Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922  
• Children's Literature and Culture  
• China, America and the Pacific  
• China: Culture and Society  
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture  
• Church Missionary Society  
• Colonial America  
• Confidential Print: Africa  
• Confidential Print: Latin America  
• Confidential Print: North America  
• Defining Gender  
• Early Modern England  
• East India Company  
• Eighteenth Century Drama  
• Eighteenth Century Journals  
• Empire Online  
• Everyday Life and Women in America  
• First World War  
• Food and Drink  
• Foreign Office Files for China  
• Foreign Office Files for India  
• Foreign Office Files for Japan  
• Foreign Office Files for South East Asia  
• Foreign Office Files for the Middle East  
• Frontier Life  
• Gender Identity and Social Change  
• Gilded Age  
• Global Commodities  
• India, Raj and Empire  
• J Walter Thompson: Advertising America  
• Jewish Life in America c.1654-1954  
• Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture  
• Life at Sea  
• Literary Manuscripts Berg  
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds  
• Literary Print Culture  
• London Low Life  
• Macmillan Cabinet Papers  
• Market Research and American Business  
• Mass Observation Online  
• Medical Services and Warfare  
• Medieval Family Life  
• Medieval Travel  
• Meiji Japan  
• Migration to New Worlds  
• Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive  
• Perdita Manuscripts  
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900  
• Race Relations in America  
• Research Source - AS:China and Southeast Asia  
• Research Source - AS:India  
• Research Source - AS:Japan  
• Research Source - Business, Economic and Labour History  
• Research Source - CMS  
• Research Source - Empire  
• Research Source - Literary Studies  
• Research Source - Medieval and Early Modern Studies  
• Research Source - Missionary Studies  
• Research Source - Women's Studies  
• Research Source - World War Two Studies  
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape  
• Service Newspapers of World War 2  
• Shakespeare In Performance  
• Shakespeare's Globe Archive  
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice  
• Socialism on Film: The Cold War  
• The Grand Tour  
• The Nixon Years  
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home  
• Travel Writing  
• Victorian Popular Culture  
• Victorians on Film  
• Virginia Company Archives  
• Women in the National Archives  
• Worlds Fairs

Digitized collections of books, sheet music, pamphlets, documents, narratives, images, & other materials.

Biographies, events & topics, primary sources, timelines, images & videos, maps & charts.

Searchable transcriptions of Works Progress Administration interviews of ex-slaves made in the late 1930s.

Guide to historical records, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world

Contains nearly a million collection descriptions contributed by thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. A combination of brief descriptions derived from catalog records in the RLG Union Catalog, and more detailed archival finding aids harvested from the Internet, including those that conform to the EAD (Encoded Archival Description) format standard.

Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.

• African American Studies  
• African Studies  
• American Studies  
• Asian Studies  
• British and European History  
• Business and Economic History  
• Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies  
• Health and Environmental Studies  
• Holocaust Studies  
• International Relations  
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies  
• Law, Politics, and Radical Studies  
• Middle Eastern Studies  
• Native American Studies  
• Religious Studies  

A digital collection of 23 interviews of former slaves out of 2,300 taken by the Works Progress Administration. The full print collection can be found under the call number E441 .A58.

Primary source documents from the 16th to 18th centuries, and journals & magazines from the 20th century.

Colonial State Papers (1574 - 1757) provides access to over 7,000 manuscript papers and 40,000 bibliographic records concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The Colonial State Papers offers access to over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records with this incredible resource on Colonial History. In addition to Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals for power, this collection also covers the Caribbean and Atlantic world. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.  Colonial Legacies: Empire & Commonwealth Periodicals has over 30 periodicals concerning the 20th-century history of the British Empire, decolonization, and the history and culture of former colonies. This archive offers a mixture of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century to the 21st – these publications encompass the key events in the empire's later phase and its post-independence legacies.

Digitized archival materials from Flint and Genesee County. Housed in the Genesee Historical Collection Center , the official archives of UM-Flint.

The materials located in this digital repository represent a fraction of the digital and physical materials in the Genesee Historical Collection Center . The archives is open to all and strives to provide access to primary source documents related to the history of Genesee County, Flint, and the University of Michigan-Flint. Includes these collections:

• Donald W. Riegle Papers, 1966-1994 , containing mostly photographs from his career as Democratic Senator from Michigan and newsletters from his tenure as Republican and Democratic Congressman from Flint.  
• Lyman George Willcox Papers, 1830-1933 , containing family photos and letters to this pioneer resident of Rochester, Michigan, and other Michigan towns. One photograph is the earliest known photo of Traverse City.  
• University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project . This significant oral history project, carried on from 1978 to 1988 under the direction of Prof. Neil Leighton of the Political Science Department, contains over 160 interviews relating to the General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937. The digitized collection includes almost all interviews, including the actual recordings and digitized transcripts. Keyword searching is possible, which makes this a unique and valuable resource for not only labor and radical history, but also for many aspects of the history of Flint.  
• Henry Howland Crapo Family Papers, 1851-1994 . Henry Howland Crapo (1804-1869), after a successful career in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as a teacher, clerk, publisher, and horticulturalist, began in the 1850s to invest in Michigan public lands. He purchased pine lands in Lapeer County, and in order to develop them, he and his family moved to Flint in 1858. He built a sawmill and built a rail connection to Detroit, and his lumber output soon made him wealthy. He served as mayor of Flint, as state senator, and, from 1865 to 1869, as governor of Michigan. He also drained land near what is now Swartz Creek and established Crapo Farm, which passed to his son William Wallace Crapo and his descendants and remained in the family until 1955. His grandson William Crapo Durant organized the Buick Motor Company, largely with investment capital from family members. Most of Henry H. Crapo's papers went to the Michigan Historical Collections (Bentley Historical Library) in 1935. This collection consists of various letters, paper ephemera, and photographs donated by descendants of Crapo. The collection includes some biographies and letters of Crapo's son-in-law, Dr. James C. Willson; photographs and other material concerning Crapo Farm, and miscellaneous other material.  
• The Beginnings of the University of Michigan-Flint . UM-Flint began in the fall of 1956 with a junior class only. The first freshman class was admitted in 1965. The path to the present university began during World War II, when C. S. Mott, Michael Gorman, and other civic leaders felt that this economically booming city could never reach greatness without a four-year college. The story of UM-Flint's founding was not smooth sailing all the way, however. The documents and photographs presented here tell the story of the school from its conception to the start of the development of the riverfront campus in 1974.  
• Karl Byarski Collection, 1953-1996  
• George Pariseau Recordings  
• Paul Gifford Collection, 1960-1986  
• Arthur Summerfield Tribute, 1952  
• Autoworld  
• Gerald F. Healy Collection  
• The Crapo Family  
• University of Michigan - Flint Yearbooks  
• Winchell & Davy Collection  
• Finding Aids for the Genesee Historical Collections Center  

Contains themed collections of over 80,000 declassified and FOIA'ed documents that led to U.S. policy decisions.

Consists of over 45 themed collections of more than 90,000 declassified and FOIA'ed documents that led to U.S. policy decisions from 1942 to 2014. Includes collections on Afghanistan, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Iran, Japan, Korea, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, and the Soviet Union. Topic collections include the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War and more. Contains documents created 1945-2015.

Primary sources from several libraries, including books, pamphlets, and manuscripts, all searchable.

Covers Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women, & the legal status of Cuban women.

Archive of materials compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime (1898-1959).

CIA translations of newswire & news broadcast services, 1941-1996; the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.

Collections of primary sources in Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern & Islamic, Slavic, Jewish, Religious, and general historical studies.

A collection of text and video on human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Includes more than 10,400 pages of archival materials; over 2,300 published monographs totaling more than 37,000 pages; 241 complete videos; more than 3,000 pages of reports, journal articles, and other full-text items; more than 1,000 images (most from The Getty); and nearly 700 links to vetted, important external websites.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more.

Tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Includes books, serials, pamphlets, essays, & other documents.

Full-text searchable histories and atlases of Michigan counties, dating from about 1866 to 1923.

Michigan eLibrary's gateway to different digital projects, including photographs, oral histories, and other materials, from different repositories throughout the state.

Large compilation of biographical material on indigenous peoples from all regions of North America. Includes biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries and oral histories.

This database represents the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. North American Indian Thought and Culture contains around 120,000 pages of text and images, including biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched thoroughly. Full-length reference works also are included to give background and context to the narratives.

Books & articles, 18th century - 1920. Includes biographical, autobiographical, & fictionalized narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. (Part of DocSouth)

Contains material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. Covers the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton.

Covers the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Created by the University of Michigan Digital Library.

Large-scale plans of urban areas. Maps of over 12,000 US cities and towns.

Sanborn maps, large-scale plans of a city or town, were created to assist fire insurance companies assess the risk associated with insuring a particular property. This collection includes 660,000 maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.

Contains 55,000 video testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides.

The Visual History Archive contains 55,000 audiovisual interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. Interviewees are primarily Jewish survivors, though the archive also includes interviews with gay/lesbian, Jehovah's Witness, and Roma and Sinta (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and war crimes trial participants. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the following:

• 1915 Armenian Genocide
• 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China
• Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979
• Guatemalan Genocide of the early 1980s
• 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
• Ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic
• Contemporary acts of violence against Jews

The interviews were conducted in 62 different countries and in 41 languages and comprise the most extensive resource of its type. Each interview is fully indexed, thus allowing the viewer to search using either the assigned index terms or a free-text search. Additionally, transcripts are provided for many of the testimonies.

Collection devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery; includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials from US and European archives.

Includes four parts: 

• Part I) Debates over Slavery & Abolition
• Part II) Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
• Part III) The Institution of Slavery
• Part IV) The Age of Emancipation

Searchable archive of 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century British State Papers, Domestic and Foreign.

• Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic  
• Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council  
• Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic  
• Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council  
• Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council  
• Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 2: State Papers Foreign, Low Countries and Germany  

Documents from Parliament, concerning parliamentary affairs, legislation, policy, politics.

Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005, with supplementary material back to 1688.

1905-present. Documents on government, politics, foreign relations, domestic affairs from various government agencies, including the White House, CIA, FBI, State Department, others.

Digital archive of texts related to witchcraft dating from the 15th century to the early 20th century.

This archive on witchcraft includes texts dating from the 15th century to the early 20th century. The majority of the material concerns the so-called "classic period" of the 16th to 18th centuries. In addition to these classic texts, the archive includes:

• Anti-persecution writings  
• Works by penologists  
• Legal and church documents  
• Exposés of persecutions  
• Philosophical writings  
• Transcripts of trials  

The majority of these texts, sourced from the Cornell University library, are in Latin, English and German, although there are also selected items in French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, and Spanish. Covers 1500-1930.

Primary documents from the history of women in social movements between 1600 and the present.

• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
• Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019
• Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820

Primary source material from archives in the United States & Europe. The historical collections include original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, & more.

Profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all eras and walks of American life who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Includes thousands of illustrations, linked cross-references, and links to select web sites. 1999 ed., updated quarterly.

Citations to articles and books relating to all aspects of native North American culture and history.

Citations to books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. BNNA covers all aspects of native North American culture, history and life. Content range covers sixteenth century through the present. Earliest indexed publication is from 1890; some coverage throughout 20th century; bulk of the collection was published after 1990.

Helps locate biographical entries contained in 1000+ volumes & editions of important biographical reference sources. Contains citations for 15M+ biographies on nearly 5M people, living and deceased, from all periods, locations, & fields.

Contains more than 600,000 biographies on more than 528,000 people from around the world and throughout history.

Combines more than 135 frequently consulted Gale biographical sources with more than 325 full-text periodicals and journals, more than 27,000 portraits, and thousands of Recent News briefs on high-interest individuals. Updated continuously.

Index to biographical articles in English-language periodicals and books, 1946 - present.

Articles on noteworthy individuals from antiquity to the present. Searchable by various criteria.

Gateway to databases and text collections focusing on Classical and Medieval European history.

Includes the following databases:

• Bibliography of British and Irish History: Bibliographic data on historical writing about the British Isles and the Commonwealth for all periods from 55 B.C. to present. Content is primarily books and articles published since 1900.
• International Medieval Bibliography
• Bibliographie de Civilisation Medivale
• International Directory of Medievalists
• Database of Latin Dictionaries
• Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
• Aristoteles Latinus Database
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica
• Library of Latin Texts - Series A & B

Contains over 700 full-text volumes, in 15 subject areas, published from 1960-2014. Volumes consist of historical essays & bibliographies.

Contains over 300 full-text volumes, in 15 subject areas, published from 1960-2014. Volumes provide authoritative historical essays and bibliographies on topics ranging from the First World War to U.S. Foreign Relations. In addition to world history, this collection also covers the histories of subjects including language and linguistics, music, philosophy, political and social theory, religion, theater and performing arts, and warfare. All chapters may be read online or downloaded as PDFs.

Historical statistics (1750-2010) on the economics, populations, labor force, education, and transportation of nations.

Contains downloadable data drawn from and updating the 3 volume print reference work International Historical Statistics 1750-2005. IHS covers a wide range of topics including: the economy, trade, population, labor, education, migration and transportation with data spanning 260 years (1750-2010). The data is organized by regions which are presented as: The Americas, Europe, and Asia + Oceania. Tables can be downloaded as PDF or Excel documents.

Balanced, accurate discussions of over 250 controversial topics in the news along with chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, contact info, and bibliographies, including primary source documents and news editorials.

Covers 1995-present. A Read Aloud button is available for text-to-speech for much of the content.

African and African-American history; biography from major reference works.

Concise articles on noteworthy people from the British Commonwealth who are no longer living.

Concise articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life from the British Isles and their connections overseas, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. No living person is included: the Dictionarys articles are confined to people who died before 31 December 2000. Also includes "themes"--essays on groups, clubs, sets, and gangs in British history, linked to articles on their individual members. Please note: access is limited to one user at a time. If your access is blocked, please try again later. When you are done, please logout to free up the access for another user.

Over 400 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press

Fully indexed, cross-searchable database of over 400 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and science--both "Quick Reference" titles (concise dictionaries, etc.) and larger "Reference Library" titles (multi-volume encyclopedias, etc.).

Concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Transcriptions of interviews of Holocaust survivors.

5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.

Videos, newsreels, and primary documents on United States history, world history, and women in social movements.

• American History in Video  
• The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives. 1960–1974  
• Black Thought and Culture  
• North American Indian Thought and Culture  
• The March of Time  
• World Newsreels Online: 1929–1966  
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000  
• Women and Social Movements, International  
• Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820  
• Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019  
• World History in Video  

This audio collection comprises hours of sound files and transcripts of meetings and telephone conversations for Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.

Free genealogical website, with millions of historical records. Search options include a catalog, books, genealogies, and a Wiki.

Demographic information about the United States, 1790 to present. Create maps and reports based on decennial censuses of 1940 to 2010 and the American Community Survey.

Includes over 40 billion data elements and 335,000 variables. Includes demographic and economic data, religion, election, and carbon emissions data. To save and share projects, please create a personal account.

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From April 2020, the Institute of Historical Research has created a listing of free research materials for historians currently unable to access libraries and archives. The list is regularly extended as researchers offer new suggestions.

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Latest posts on x, on history blog, call for section editors: bibliography of british and irish history (bbih), laurence swarfeld of antwerp and london: cross channel connections in the 15th century customs accounts, building castle stories – insights from a chppc advisory board member, maud heath and beyond: exploring the lives of women before 1600, using the bibliography of british and irish history (bbih) as a phd research tool – phil winterbottom , the annual pollard prize, about the prize.

The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. The prize is supported by Oxford University Press.

Find out more about the prize and eligibility requirements on the IHR website .

2021 prize winners

Congratulations to Merve Fejzula for winning the Annual Pollard Prize for 2021 with their paper 'Toward a History of Intellectual Labor: Gender, Negritude, and the Black Public Sphere.' Congratulations also to runner up Lucy Clarke  for their paper '"I say I must for I am the King’s shrieve": magistrates invoking the monarch’s name in 1 Henry VI (1592) and The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon (1598)'.

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• DPLA A portal to digitized content made available by libraries, archives and museums

A repository for digital collections. Items in the public domain (works published before 1923) are freely accessible online.

• Internet Archive

A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Includes digitized books, periodicals, media, and more.

Journal Search

• Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.
• America: History and Life This link opens in a new window References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the US and Canada. See Historical Abstracts for world history.
• Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
• Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the world (excluding U.S and Canada).
• JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.
• Project Muse This link opens in a new window Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
• ABC-CLIO E-book Collection This link opens in a new window E-book collection emphasizing history and literature.
• Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window 19th Century African American newspapers, American County Histories to 1900, American Civil War Primary Sources, and more.
• African American Newspapers Series 1: 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window Provides access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This collection includes historically significant papers and features many rare 19th-century titles.
• African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window Contains information about cultural life and history during the 1800's and includes first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, the humanities, world travel and religion.
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs from the Civil War era.
• American Memory Project (Library of Congress) Primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the U.S.
• American Periodicals This link opens in a new window Full text periodicals published between 1740 and 1940.

• ArchiveGrid Provides access to detailed archival collections descriptions. more... less... ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, making information available about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials. It also provides contact information for the institutions where the collections are kept.
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window An index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, part of the Web of Science Core Collection. (Indexing: 1975+)

• Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942) This link opens in a new window Newspaper includes obituaries, stocks and editorials.
• Avalon Project Documents in law, history and diplomacy. Free or open source. more... less... Documents from pre-18th through the 20th century relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
• Black Women in America This link opens in a new window Provides coverage of the achievements and contributions of African American women in sports, politics, academia, and business throughout history and highlights their contributions in America today.
• Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 This link opens in a new window 140 newspaper titles from 22 islands from the 18th and 19th centuries. Research Colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, New World slavery, and more. Most of these newspapers were published in English, but some non-English titles are also included.
• Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Newspapers List of historical and current local newspapers owned by Atkins Library.
• Charlotte Observer (1886-present) This link opens in a new window Charlotte Observer online from 1886 to the present.
• Charlotte Observer (1886-1984) This link opens in a new window Includes obituaries, stocks, editorials and first-hand accounts of events.
• Chicago Defender (1910-1975) This link opens in a new window A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside of Chicago.
• Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers 1789-1963
• City and Business Directories: North Carolina, 1886-1929 Digital Archive This link opens in a new window Historical, personal, and professional information about the inhabitants of a city and city organizations.
• Colección Revolución 1910-1921 This link opens in a new window Collection of historical documents on the Mexican Revolution.

• Digital South Asia Library Provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia. Free or open source.
• Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window Includes indexes and full-text of doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
• Dissertations and Theses @ University of North Carolina Charlotte This link opens in a new window This database provides access to the dissertations and theses produced by students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
• Documenting the American South Primary source materials relating to Southern history. Open access. more... less... A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes: First-Person Narratives of the American South; Library of Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community.
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in America from 1639-1800.
• Early American Newspapers on Microfilm Early American Newspapers owned by the J. Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte.
• Education Index Retrospective 1929-1983 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Covers the field of education from 1929 through 1982. Contains some full-text. The database reflects more than six decades of Wilson's Education Index.
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window Digital facsimile page images of historical works from 1473 to 1700.
• Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window Works published in the UK during the 18th century.
• Europeana, 1914-1918 Explore stories, films and historical material about the First World War from libraries and archives across the globe
• Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910 This link opens in a new window Records of the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the Presbyterian Church on social conditions in developing nations and efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. It includes correspondences, diary accounts, field accounts, and more.
• Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930 - 1944 This link opens in a new window Organized by country, this collection contains primary source documents relevant to the study of Latin American and Caribbean international relations.
• Foreign Relations Between the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean States 1930-1944 This link opens in a new window Collection of primary source documents relevant to the study of U.S. relations with Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1930's.
• Gale NewsVault This link opens in a new window Platform for cross-searching a range of historical UK newspaper and periodical collections, including 19th century British Library Newspapers (Parts I and II); 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series 1; Times Digital Archive (1785-2006); and, Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (1902-2007)
• Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party This link opens in a new window Collection of documents from FBI, local and state police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Civill Rights Division of the Justice Department relating to the shootout and the aftermath.
• Hansard (British Parliamentary Debates)
• Harper's Weekly: 1857-1912 This link opens in a new window A 19th century illustrated newspaper from 1857-1912. Includes news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and advertisements.
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• HeinOnline This link opens in a new window Legal history and government documents. Contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and entire databases of treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, international trade, foreign relations, and more.
• HeritageQuest This link opens in a new window Includes family, local history and genealogy records, complete U.S. Census from 1790-1940, Revolutionary War records, and Freedman’s Bank records relating to free slaves.
• Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during 19th and 20th centuries. Many of these newspapers were published bilingually in Spanish and English.

• H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences An online scholarly review resource. Free or open source. more... less... An online scholarly review resource.
• ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers Find digital newspaper collections for each country
• Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company This link opens in a new window Trading firm papers dating from 1763-1901. Useful for the study of the American Indians of the Southeast.
• International African Bibliography Online (IABO) This link opens in a new window Contains entries from the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2015.
• Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a digital library of websites and other cultural artifacts in digital form
• Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life This link opens in a new window First-person accounts from interned Japanese Americans during World War II.
• Latin American Newspapers (Series I), 1805-1922 This link opens in a new window Full-text access to more than 30 Latin American newspapers published 1805-1922.
• Latin American Newspapers (Series II), 1822-1922 This link opens in a new window Series II of Latin American Newspapers expands the number of titles available from this region, including from some countries and cities not represented in Series I.
• Liberation Movement in Africa and African America 1970-1985 This link opens in a new window Contains FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party. Includes views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa and the issues of Pan-Africanism.
• Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project This link opens in a new window The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) publications (1933-1943).
• London Low Life (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new window Contains color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.
• Making of America (MOA) (via Cornell University) Primary sources in American social history for the 19th century. Free or open source. more... less... A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
• Making of America (MOA) (via University of Michigan) Primary sources in American social history for the 19th century. Free or open source. more... less... A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
• Milestone Documents in American History This link opens in a new window Combines primary source documents in American and world history with expert analysis and commentary.
• Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia This link opens in a new window Diaries, journals and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans and travelers to Appalachia.
• New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) This link opens in a new window This leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. It was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.
• New York Times Historical Archives (1851-2010) This link opens in a new window Major global newspaper including news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, as well as photos and advertisements.

Contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain.

• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new window A comprehensive primary source collection focusing on the nineteenth century. This resource features collections on a variety of topics including children's literature, photography, European and African commerce, and more.
• Eight Centuries (formerly 19th Century Masterfile) This link opens in a new window Eight Centuries (formerly 19th Century Masterfile) is a database covering primary source materials from 1106 until 1960. Provides access to articles, newspapers, books, U.S. patents, government documents, and images.
• 19th Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window A major multi-part series of periodicals which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world.
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window Colonial to 1950 - includes the experiences of 632 women as revealed in diaries and letters.
• North Carolina Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window North Carolina Historical newspapers from late 1700s to 1859
• Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) This link opens in a new window The oldest continuously published black newspaper dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation.
• Price Control in the Courts: The U.S. Emergency Court of Appeals, 1941 - 1961 This link opens in a new window Records from a temporary U.S. federal court established during World War II to determine the validity of price control regulations.
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 contains criminal trials held at London's central criminal court more... less... A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court
• ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window Provides access to Congressional information, including bills, laws, regulations, reports, documents, prints, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, and the Congressional Record. Also includes information about members of Congress such as biographical data, voting records, campaign financial data and committees. Also includes legislative histories, bills and laws as well as regulations.
• ProQuest Congressional Hearings This link opens in a new window Access congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress.
• ProQuest Historical Annual Reports: America's Corporate Foundation This link opens in a new window Annual reports from 1844 onward representing over 800 leading North American companies.
• PubMed This link opens in a new window Contains millions of citations for biomedical and health literature from MEDLINE and other sources. To access full text from Atkins Library's journal collections in addition to full-text content from PubMed Central and open access publications, use the links provided on Atkins Library web pages.
• Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 This link opens in a new window Iconic British humor and satire magazine. For research on 19th and 20th century political social history.
• Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Index for general-interest, news, and opinion magazines published primarily in the United States.
• Revolution in Mexico, the 1917 Constitution, and Its Aftermath This link opens in a new window This collection of U.S. State Department records consists of political and military documents relating to the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath 1910 - 1924.
• Sarai (South Asia Resource Access on the Internet) Sarai (South Asia Resource Access on the Internet). Free or open source. more... less... Sarai (South Asia Resource Access on the Internet)
• South Carolina's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window South Carolina Historical newspapers from late 1700s to 1859.
• Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window Historical newspaper archive with full-text coverage of the Times from 1785 to 2013. Supports research across multiple disciplines including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy with coverage of all major international historical events.
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new window Full coverage from 1902-2019. Reviews of books in many disciplines, theatre, musical performances, art exhibitions, film, media, and other cultural events as well as editorial and commentary articles.
• Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War This link opens in a new window A unique source of information on the common serviceman and woman’s experience of the war. Limit your search by language, unit name, type, origin or location, etc.
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1962.
• War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800 - 1824 This link opens in a new window Collection of letters received by and sent to the War Department.
• War of the Rebellion A compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Free or open source. Cornell. more... less... Site includes correspondence, orders, reports, and returns of both the Union and Confederate armies. Series I: Formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field. Series II: Correspondence, orders, reports, and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war. Series III: Correspondence, orders, reports, and returns of the Union authorities. Series IV: Correspondence, orders, reports, and returns of the Confederate authorities.
• Web of Science This link opens in a new window This multidisciplinary database includes a citation mapping feature that allows you to track research across time, including almost 1.7 billion cited references allowing for comprehensive searches.
• World Digital Library Significant primary materials from all countries and cultures
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History Research Guide

• New Books in History
• Reference Works
• Digital Collections
• US Reference Works
• US Databases
• Introduction

Top Databases for U.S. History Research

Reference databases, general us databases, historical newspapers, african americans, latina/o populations in the united states, indigenous peoples of the americas, topical multidisciplinary databases.

• US Digital Collections
• Primary Sources
• Finding & Evaluating Sources
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Search Tips

Basic search tips.

Boolean Operators : Use AND, OR, NOT to expand or narrow results.

• adhd OR neurodivergent [useful with synonyms]
• natural disaster AND economy

“Phrase Searching” : Use quotation marks (“”) around words to search for an exact phrase. 

• “social media”

Wildcard/Truncation : Use an asterisk (*) to search for words with similar beginnings. 

• Chican* = Chican, Chicana, Chicanas, Chicanx...

Terminology

Scholarly  journals contain articles written by, and addressed to, experts in a discipline. Scholarly journals present the research of experts in a field, although these journals also often carry opinion pieces or even advertisements unique to the field addressed by the journal.

Peer-reviewed  journals (also called refereed or juried journals) send submitted articles to one or more experts for review before deciding to publish them. This review process helps ensure that published articles reflect solid scholarship in a field. Most often, the experts reviewing an article make critical comments on the text, comments that the author must incorporate into the article before its publication.

Databases & Journals

Below are a list of useful library history databases, which include both secondary and primary sources in a variety of formats (scholarly articles, newspaper articles, ebooks, manuscripts, images...). The content is organized by  reference databases  (a great place to start),  top databases in history , historical  newspapers , and databases focusing on specific U.S. based populations (African Americans, Latinx, Indigenous). Additional information on  search strategies  and  terminology  are located in the left column of the page. Remember, if you cannot find the article you need in our catalog, use our  Interlibrary Loan  program to see if another library send us a copy. 

Top U.S. History Databases

This page lists a lot of U.S. historical databases. Start your search here and when you are more familiar with your topic, expand your search to the more subject specific databases below.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Reference databases are a great place to start your research, especially in a new field or topic of study. Think of these as the Academic Wikipedia. These encyclopedia and dictionary resources provide peer-reviewed introductory and background information on a topic, where you can learn the language experts in a field use as well as helpful bibliographies.

• Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Interdisciplinary list of dictionaries and encyclopedias covering the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
• American History, 1493-1945 This link opens in a new window Contains over 50,000 primary source documents covering American history from 1493 to 1945 including correspondence, diaries, government documents, business records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, artwork and maps.
• American State Papers, 1789-1838 This link opens in a new window Contains primary material of historical importance including legislative and executive documents, speeches of U.S. presidents and coverage of historical events from 1789-1838.
• American West This link opens in a new window Books, journals, diaries and pioneer accounts, maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, and artwork of the American West from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
• Civil Rights in America: From Reconstruction to the Great Society This link opens in a new window Archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States covering a wide range of topics for research in American history, political science, social justice and related fields.
• MAS Ultra This link opens in a new window Collection of primary sources and popular material including American history and government, country reports and the sciences. Contains more than 360 reference books, over 81,000 primary sources, more than 79,000 biographies, an image collection and periodicals.
• Territorial Papers of the United States, 1764-1953 This link opens in a new window From the 1760s to the 1950s the United States of America expanded southward and westward, acquiring territories that spanned from Florida to California to Alaska. For over one hundred years the territorial governments and affairs in general were supervised by the Department of State. In 1873 that responsibility was transferred to the Department of the Interior and, with the exception of appointments of territorial officials, was ordinarily referred to the Patents and Miscellaneous Division. From this unlikely source comes the official history of the states‚Äô formative territorial years recorded in primary source documents, many of which are hand-written, that include official correspondence with Washington, Native American negotiations and treaties, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, land records, and more.
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window Contains reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Covering public policy, infrastructure, the land, the people, military and defense, and more.
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps This link opens in a new window Contains images and indexing for maps published in reports and documents of the 37th Congress, 1st Session through the 103rd Congress, 2nd session. The maps published as part of U.S. Congressional Serial Set publications
• America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window Multi-database search including America's Historical Newspapers, Hispanic American Newspapers, American State Papers and U.S. Congressional Serial Set.
• New York Times Historical (1851-2018) This link opens in a new window Provides coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
• Black Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window Includes historical African American Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988); Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Cleveland Call & Post (1934-1991); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); Michigan Chronicle (1936-2010); New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993); The Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003); The Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
• Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window Contains hundreds of digitized newspapers published in the United States by Hispanics between 1808-1980.
• AAS Historical Periodicals Collection (American Antiquarian Society): Series 1-5 This link opens in a new window American Antiquarian Society provides digital access to an extensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1877.
• American Indian Newspapers This link opens in a new window Discover North American Indigenous journalism from a range of communities, includes 45 titles dating from 1828 to 2016.
• American Periodicals Series 1740-1940 This link opens in a new window Contains over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940.
• Early American Newspapers, Series 1: From Colonies to Nation, 1690-1922 This link opens in a new window Collects over 700 Early American newspapers which document the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities.
• Hispanic American Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window Indexes the contents of scholarly journals on topics ranging from political, economic and social issues to the arts and humanities. Covers Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s.

California Newspapers

• California Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window Digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present.
• Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-1993 ) This link opens in a new window Contains full page and article images from every available issue.
• Los Angeles Sentinel Historic (1934-2005 ) This link opens in a new window Contains full page and article images from every available issue.
• NewspaperARCHIVE This link opens in a new window NewspaperARCHIVE.com provides access to California newspapers from around 1774 to the present. California newspapers in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date.
• Access California This link opens in a new window Contains California news media including regional and university newspapers, TV transcripts, blogs and web-only content.
• Sacramento Bee (1857-1983, 1984-current, Blogs) This link opens in a new window Access current and archived newspaper issues and blogs.
• San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1984, 1985-current ) This link opens in a new window Access current and archived newspaper issues.
• African American Communities This link opens in a new window Primary source collection focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn, and North Carolina, this collection presents multiple aspects of the African American community through personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories.
• African American Historical Serials Collection This link opens in a new window Features 173 periodicals spanning from 1816 through 1922, including newspapers and magazines, reports and annuals from various African American churches, educational, and service institutions.
• Ebony Magazine Archive (1945-2014) This link opens in a new window A key African American magazine of the 20th century, covering 20th- and 21st-century events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more. Contains indexing, abstracting and full text (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in November 1945 to June 2014.
• Chicano Database This link opens in a new window Indexes over 2,400 journals, newspapers, and other resources on Latinx cultures and issues. 1967-present; updated quarterly.
• Hispanic Life in America (1704-2009) This link opens in a new window Digital archive from over 700 Spanish-language news publications covering the colonial era through 2009, illustrating that people of Spanish speaking heritage have shaped the geography, arts, culture, and civil discourse of the United States.
• American Indian Histories and Cultures This link opens in a new window Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books, treaties, speeches, and diaries dating from the earliest contact with European settlers to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century.
• Native American Indians, 1645-1819 This link opens in a new window Contains over 1,500 publications, including maps, books, treaties, and other printed and graphic artifacts focusing on the relationship between Native Americans and European settlers. This collection is assembled from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and many other institutions.
• Native American Tribal Histories, Series 1-4, 1813-1880 This link opens in a new window These primary source documents cover not only encounters between Indigenous people and the U.S. government, but also accounts of Native American cultures during a time when disease and forced relocation were transforming their lives. Now, these rare materials are available for the first time in a readily accessible digital collection, which also contains detailed historicalbackground notes created by the curators of the National Archives. Native American Tribal Histories, 1813-1880, is a powerful new resource for anyone interested in the past, present and future of Native America.
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History Research

History databases, primary sources online, primary source databases, reference (quick information), streaming video collections, helpful websites for history teaching.

• HIST 308 American Revolution
• HIST 316 Civil War America
• Jobs & Internships for History Students

Need Something We Don't Have? Use our Fulfillment Services

• Fulfillment Services (ILL) Instructions Use Primo to make requests through Fulfillment Services (ILL) for books or articles we don't have using the "Get it for me" button. They can also send you print books using "Hold Request" or scan & send book chapters from our library using "Request PDF."

Articles on the history of Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.

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Databases in Historical Research

Theory, Methods and Applications

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• Charles Harvey, Jon Press

Database Concepts and Terminology

Database management software, the database project life-cycle, database design and implementation, information retrieval, source-oriented database systems, coding and record linkage, conclusion: databases and the future of historical computing, back matter.

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• database management
• database system
• information
• information retrieval

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Book Title : Databases in Historical Research

Book Subtitle : Theory, Methods and Applications

Authors : Charles Harvey, Jon Press

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24392-1

Publisher : Red Globe Press London

eBook Packages : Palgrave History Collection , History (R0)

Copyright Information : Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : XVI, 347

Additional Information : Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

Topics : Historiography and Method

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• Early Modern England: Society, Culture & Everyday Life, 1500-1700 This link opens in a new window Includes information about the lived experience of people who witnessed this pivotal era of English history. From "ordinary" people through to more prominent individuals and families, these documents show how everyday working, family, religious and administrative life was experienced across England.
• East India Company This link opens in a new window Collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London, which includes documents about British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent from 1599 to 1947. These documents include royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings, and reports of expeditions.
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online Full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 items published in the British Isles, colonial America, the United States (1776 - 1800), Canada, and territories governed by Britain during any period of the Eighteenth Century, in any language; plus all relevant items printed wholly or partly in English, or other British vernaculars, in any part of the world. ECCO includes a variety of materials from books, directories, Bibles and sermons to shipping lists, advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection in History, Geography, Science, Technology, Medicine, Law, Philosophy, Religion, Social Sciences, Literature, and the Fine Arts. ECCO is based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). If you experience problems viewing pages from results in the ECCO database you may find you are able to view materials if you: 1) Refresh the page when getting an error message, or 2) Switch to another browser, such as Chrome
• Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window Digital reproductions of unique and rare eighteenth century periodicals chosen to convey the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world between 1712 and 1835.
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) The nearly 1270 titles and one million pages are predominantly London newspapers from 1603 up to the early 1800s.
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window Digitized collection of the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, United Kingdom. This collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into 17th and 18th century England. Coverage: 1672-1737
• Electronic Enlightenment Edited letters of over 7,000 correspondents from Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, including the correspondence of philosophers, scientists, clerics, government ministers, merchants, and people of many other occupations. A research project of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, EE provides a network of interconnected documents allowing scholars to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period. Forty-five nationalities, 11 languages, and 688 occupations are represented. Limited to one user at a time.
• ARTFL -- the Treasury of the French Language The ARTFL database is a corpus of nearly 150,000,000 words and almost 2000 texts with an emphasis in the 17th to 20th centuries. Complete novels and collections of poetry are included, but also works in philosophy, mathematics, and biology.
• Perdita Manuscripts This link opens in a new window Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University.
• Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment This link opens in a new window Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, includes over five hundred peer-reviewed scholarly volumes published since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. This series covers wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
• Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence This link opens in a new window Provides information on the role of signals intelligence, human agents, diplomats, politicians and the armed forces in the gathering of intelligence from across the British empire in the twentieth century.
• Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window An online collection of British magazines, journals and specialty newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals provides an in-depth view of British life in the Victorian age. Series One: New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humor and Leisure/Sport charts the rapid rise of publishing in a reading culture expanding through a rise in literacy and leisure and an explosion of sports and hobbies. Series Two: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial, covers the expansion of the Empire, addressing the economic as well as the non-mercantile aspects of British expansionism.
• Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window Provides access to the complete digital edition of The Times (London) using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Coverage: 1785-2014
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 This link opens in a new window Online access to the entire run of the Illustrated London News. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full color and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations.
• Independent Historical Archive This link opens in a new window Full text searchable access to this major British Daily national newspaper featuring journalists and columnists from across the political spectrum. The paper is generally regarded as centrist, taking idiosyncratic views on the free market, social issues and culture. Coverage 1986-2016
• International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013 This link opens in a new window Complete archive of the International Herald Tribune from its origins as the European Edition of The New York Herald to the last issue of the International Herald Tribune before its relaunch as the International New York Times. Coverage: 1887-2013
• Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991 This link opens in a new window Searchable database of the complete run of publications: Listener and Listener and BBC television review. Established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing broadcast talks, the weekly publication also discussed major literary and musical programs, and regularly reviewed new books. This archive enables users to search across 125,000 pages of the Listener publications, all newly digitized from originals in full color. Select broadcast transcripts are also included in this database. Coverage 1929-1991
• Mirror Historical Archive 1903-2000 This link opens in a new window Access to both the Mirror and Sunday Mirror, the United Kingdom's only mainstream left-wing tabloid, from 1903-2000.
• Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.

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• Internet Archive Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Mirabile Digital archives for medieval culture. Combines multiple Italian-based databases into one location.
• Gallica Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched every week with thousands of novelties and now offers access to several million documents.
• Old Maps Online Searchable database of maps from a variety of world regions and time periods.
• French Revolution Digital Archive A multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community.
• Regesta Imperii The full texts of more than 125.000 regestae of royal and papal records ranging from the Carolingians to Maximilian I. (751-1519) are available for research. Bibliography also available on this site. In German.
• Avalon Project: Medieval Documents 400-1399 Documents relating to law, history, and diplomacy compiled by Yale Law Library.
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The Africa and the New Imperialism database explores the late 19th and early 20th-century history of European colonization across the African continent, utilizing over 1,000 diaries, journals, correspondences, maps, photographs, film footage, and other archival materials. In 1972, Angela Davis, an American political activist, philosopher, and author, conducted a jailhouse interview addressing the Black Panther Party and violence amidst the struggle for civil rights. See this conversation and over 450 hours of compelling films encompassing African American history, politics, art, culture, family dynamics, gender relationships, and socio-economic issues in Black Studies in Video database.

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Abstract: Scopus and the Web of Science have been the foundation for research in the science of science even though these traditional databases systematically underrepresent certain disciplines and world regions. In response, new inclusive databases, notably OpenAlex, have emerged. While many studies have begun using OpenAlex as a data source, few critically assess its limitations. This study, conducted in collaboration with the OpenAlex team, addresses this gap by comparing OpenAlex to Scopus across a number of dimensions. The analysis concludes that OpenAlex is a superset of Scopus and can be a reliable alternative for some analyses, particularly at the country level. Despite this, issues of metadata accuracy and completeness show that additional research is needed to fully comprehend and address OpenAlex's limitations. Doing so will be necessary to confidently use OpenAlex across a wider set of analyses, including those that are not at all possible with more constrained databases.

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• Censorship by the Numbers ALA compiles data on book challenges from reports filed with its Office for Intellectual Freedom by library professionals in the field and from news stories published throughout the United States.
• Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023 Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based on information from reports filed by library professionals and community members, as well as news stories published throughout the United States.
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• New Study Demonstrates the Importance of Diverse Books Through this intervention study, participating educators selected and added diverse books to their classroom libraries, and completed bi-monthly tracking surveys to gauge the impact of those diverse books. Among the findings: the pilot study revealed that increasing access to diverse books in the classroom environment increases the amount of time that children spend reading, and positively impacts students’ reading scores.
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