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  • 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
    The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
  • Accessible Archives Best Bet
    Accessible Archives is devoted to primary source material in American history. Information archived is from leading historical periodicals and books, and includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically.
  • African American Communities
    Contains pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, photographs, and oral histories focusing on African American culture, social conditions, and identity in Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. Includes papers of Austin T. Walden, Herbert T. Jenkins, Thomas J. Pearsall, James B. McMillan, Algernon Lee Butler, and the Chicago Urban League papers, c1916-1985.
  • African American Newspapers, Series 1: 1827-1998
    American Newspapers, Series 1, features 280 newspapers published for or by African Americans from 35 states. The collection includes many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles, including Freedom's Journal (NY)-the first African American newspaper published in the United States-The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L'Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman's Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN).
  • African American Newspapers, Series 2: 1835-1956
    Features 75 newspapers published for or by African Americans from 22 states and the District of Columbia. Some key titles include Frederick Douglass's New National Era (Washington, DC), Washington Tribune (Washington, DC), Chicago Bee (Chicago, IL), The Louisianian (New Orleans, LA), The Pine and Palm (Boston, MA), National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY), New York Age (New York, NY), Harlem Liberator (New York, NY), North Carolina Republican and Civil Rights Advocate (Weldon, NC), Southern News (Richmond, VA).
  • AM Explorer
    Tool for searching all Adam Matthew primary source digital collections simultaneously.
  • America's Historical Newspapers: U.S. Civil War
    Full text/full page images of newspapers published during the American Civil War.
  • American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection.
    A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts.
  • American Historical Periodicals from the Antiquarian Society
    A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts.
  • American History, 1493-1945
    This collection traces the progress of American History and extensively covers the major themes of the period from colonization and settlement through the revolution, expansion, politics, slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, to World War II.
  • American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside
    • No access restrictions. No login required. Available from any remote location via any internet service provider.
    American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions. Development of the collection began in July 2020 and will continue through 2021, with new content added regularly
  • American West
    Comprised of original manuscripts, rare printed books, maps and ephemeral material from the Everett D.Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago, American West is a unique resource which allows scholars to explore tales of frontier life, Indigenous Peoples, vigilantes and outlaws.
  • Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
    This is an essential resource for the study of the apartheid era in Southern Africa, sourced exclusively from The National Archives UK. It provides unparalleled analysis of South African politics, trade relations, international opinion and humanitarian dilemmas against a backdrop of waning colonialism and mounting world condemnation.
  • Archives Unbound
    Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level.
  • Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
    The first African American Daily in the U.S., the Atlanta Daily World offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. The Daily World covered racial discrimination in the federal government and military, school segregation, and events such as the trials of the Scottsboro Boys.
  • British Library Newspapers Part 1: 1800-1900 Collection
    British Library Newspapers is an effort to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to select a number of London and regional titles, covering as much of the UK as possible. Titles include the Morning Chronicle, The Examiner and Illustrated Police News and Chartism newspapers. Regional newspapers include: The Northern Echo, The Western Mail, The Newcastle Courant, The Ipswich Journal, The Bristol Mercury. In all, 48 titles from the nineteenth century are included.
  • Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
    The Chicago Defender was one of the most widely read African American newspapers with more than two thirds of its readership outside of Chicago. It took on Jim Crow violence, segregation, and encouraged the Great Migration. Correspondents, columnists, and contributors included Langston Hughes, Ethel Payne, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willard Motley, and Ida B. Wells
  • China, America and the Pacific: Trade and Cultural Exchange
    Sourced from world-class collections at American and Canadian libraries including the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, China, America and the Pacific offers unique insights into the history of North American trade and cultural interactions with China. Coverage also includes Pacific trading centers, such as Hawaii.
  • China: Culture and Society
    Spanning three centuries, China: Culture and Society provides access to the Wason Pamphlet collection in its entirety. Mostly in English and published between c.1750 and 1929, these rare pamphlets make up one of the most extensive collections of literature on China and the Chinese in the Western world.
  • China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
    The rich and diverse publications of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) shed light on key events since the beginning of the 19th century. With active mission stations in every continent, the published journals, letters and reports represent a truly global perspective on not only evangelism and mission history but conflict, colonialism and globalization.
  • Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
    Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
  • Church Missionary Society Periodicals
    The rich and diverse publications of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) shed light on key events since the beginning of the 19th century. With active mission stations in every continent, the published journals, letters and reports represent a truly global perspective on not only evangelism and mission history but conflict, colonialism and globalization.
  • Colonial America
    Sourced from The National Archives UK, Colonial America offers access to thousands of documents on North America from 1606-1822. Described as an 'indispensable' resource for researchers of the early-modern Atlantic world and winner of Library Journal's 'Best Reference' Award, scholars and researchers have clamored for access to this material for years.
  • Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
    From coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy's defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence, this resource covers the modern period of European colonization of the continent. These government documents are essential sources for the study of African history and the understanding of Africa today.
  • Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
    This collection begins in the aftermath of independence for the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies of Latin America, addressing the politics of state-building and the Latin American nations' establishment of their place in the fast-expanding global economy.
  • Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
    From the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post- Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict these government documents inform the volatile situation in the region today.
  • Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
    This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America, and covers such topics as slavery, Prohibition, the First and Second World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, the League of Nations, McCarthyism and the nuclear bomb. The bulk of the material covers the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
  • Defining Gender, 1450-1910
    Primary source materials from British and European libraries and archives, organized by themes: conduct & politeness, domesticity & the family, consumption & leisure, education & sensibility, and the body. Each thematic area contains essays written by scholars that directly relate to the source materials.
  • Early American Newspapers, Series 20, 1812-1876
    Early American Newspapers (EAN), Series 20, 1812-1876: America's Industrial Centers and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Immigration is a searchable digitized collection of nearly 200 newspapers from the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states during the Abolitionist, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, are also hosted on the EAN online platform and can be searched using the same interface.
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    EEBO is based on the microfilm collections curated by the Ann Arbor publisher Eugene B. Power (1905-1993). The founder of what became University Microfilms International or UMI, Power's first foreign project established the microfilming operation at the British Museum in 1942 and, since then, more than 200 libraries worldwide have contributed to the microfilm collection. Following its digital launch in 1998, Early English Books Online now contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700. Beginning with the very first book published in English, EEBO draws from four authoritative bibliographical resources - both Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) in their revised versions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) and the Early English Books Tract Supplement - to present more than 146,000 titles and over 17 million scanned pages of content. Transcribed texts - TCP I and TCP II - are now included on EEBO, adding transcriptions to approximately 50% of the texts featured. EEBO also covers texts in more than 30 languages, ranging from Algonquin to Welsh, and incorporates variant editions and multiple copies.
  • Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship And The Stage
    Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library - a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here.
  • Eighteenth Century Journals, c1685-1835
    Eighteenth Century Journals draws together material from some of the finest archives across the UK and the US, with the aim of representing the rich variety of the eighteenth century press. It is the first resource of its kind to make available unique and extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals online, each chosen to convey the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world between 1685 and 1835.
  • Empire Online 
    With primary source material from American, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. Documents from Africa, India and North America are also featured.
  • Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Collection 2: Cinema, Film and Television Best Bet
    EIMA features ten long-running and highly influential trade and popular magazines, including Variety and Broadcasting, which document all aspects of cinema going, the film industry and the evolution of television and popular culture in the US and UK between 1905 and 2000. A best bet for Media Studies.
  • Everyday Life & Women in America c.1820-1920
    Primary source materials that address topics such as political, social and gender issues, religion, family, fashion & beauty, medicine, and education. It emphasizes conduct of life and domestic management literature, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures. Of special interest, all issues of Town Topics: The Journal of Society (1887-1923) are included.
  • Feminism in Cuba
    Primary source materials mostly in Spanish, on feminists and the feminist movement in Cuba, 1898-1958. The materials fall into three categories: works by feminists about feminists and their causes, works by men on the status of women, and literary works by feminist writers that illustrate or discuss the condition of women.
  • First World War: Visual Perspectives and Narratives
    From personal collections and rare printed material, to military files, ephemera and artwork, The First World War highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict and in multiple theatres of war. Covering an array of international perspectives, the resource showcases intimate personal narratives, wartime propaganda and recruitment material, the truly global reach of the conflict, and the role of women in war through various documentary and visual forms. This module is drawn entirely from the unparalleled holdings of the Imperial War Museum. There is a major emphasis on visual sources - photographs, artwork, posters, film clips and museum objects. Also included are substantial documentary materials - manuscript, rare printed and ephemeral sources - which help to contextualize dominant themes covered by the visual sources, such as the international dimensions of the conflict, the Home Front and the role of women in the war.
  • Foreign Office Files for China: 1919-1980
    Featuring diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, political pamphlets, reports of court cases and other materials, this collection represents a constant exchange of information between London and the British embassies and consulates. Due to the unique nature of the relationship between Britain and China, these formerly restricted first-hand accounts provide unprecedented levels of detail into a turbulent period in Chinese history.
  • Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan: Sections I-III
    This is a resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period, featuring essential content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions. This module covers 1947-1964, Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era.
  • Foreign Office Files for the Middle East: Section I
    The Middle East in the 1970s was characterised by its conflicts, with a cast of political figures whose influence can still be felt today. Providing an invaluable resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the modern Middle East, this collection contains complete runs of Foreign Office files, providing an expansive view of key events and their global political impact. This section covers 1971-1974, The 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Oil Crisis.
  • Frontier Life: Borderland and Colonial Encounters
    Through a large array of unique documents, this multi-archive collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. Experience settlements across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Explore documents on the creation of new states, trade networks, and movements of people in these regions alongside the marginalization and decline of Indigenous peoples.
  • Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
    Explore the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world through a wide range of manuscript sources, rare books, maps, advertising, paintings, photographs and ephemera. One of the most popular ways of teaching World History is through the story of global commodities and the way in which these transformed the world. This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
  • Grand Tour
    Taking the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as a starting point, this resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe from c.1550 to 1850, exploring the Anglo-European response to continental travel for pleasure, business and diplomacy. This digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows students and researchers to explore and compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections.
  • Hate In America, White Nationalism and the Press in the 1920s
    • No access restrictions. No login required. Available from any remote location via any internet service provider.
    Local, regional, and national newspapers published by Ku Klux Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers across the U.S. during the 1920s. Also included are several anti-Klan newspapers.
  • HathiTrust
    HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries. It includes content digitized as part of the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by member libraries. Materials are available to the extent permitted by copyright law. As of March 2015, the HathiTrust digital library contained over 13 million digitized volumes, of which almost 5 million volumes were in the public domain (source: http://www.hathitrust.org/statistics_visualizations).
  • Historical Newspapers Online
    Online indexing of the Times (London) from 1790-1980 and the New York times from 1851-1923. Indexes can be searched individually or in combination by names, events, and subjects with Boolean, proximity, wildcard, and truncation search operators. Also includes the full text of Times (London) articles from 1785 to 1870.
  • Independent Voices
    • No access restrictions. No login required. Available from any remote location via any internet service provider.
    Independent Voices in an ongoing digitization project supported in part by Auburn University Libraries that chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through alternative press magazines, journals, and newspapers. This interdisciplinary project is of interest to women and gender studies, sociology, political science, history, communication and multicultural studies among others.
  • India, Raj and Empire
    Explore the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. The wonderfully rich and diverse South Asian manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland are extremely varied, ranging from the papers of key East India Company representatives and colonial officials to records of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras. This collection weaves the story of India and Empire through the writings of Governor-Generals, Commander-in-Chiefs, Indian Princes, soldiers, traders, missionaries, explorers, historians and authors of literary works, indigo farmers and tea and coffee planters.
  • Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
    This resource focuses on interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, up to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. It contains material from the Newberry Library's extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection and also includes manuscripts, artwork, rare books, photographs and newspapers, treaties, speeches and diaries, historic maps and travel journals.
  • International Women's Periodicals, 1786-1933 : Social and Political Issues
    Includes the full text of the most significant and least-widely held women's periodicals produced from the late 18th century through the early 1930s.
  • Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
    Explore the history of Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today. Based on a rich variety of original manuscript collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this indispensable resource offers captivating insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries. Charting the Jewish Diaspora from the earliest settlements through to the mass European influx of the early twentieth century, Jewish Life in America will appeal to researchers of all aspects of this diverse and extensive cultural heritage.
  • Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Mass Tourism
    Indulge with the wealthy as they experience health inspired visits to luxury spas. Assess the entrepreneurial activities of businessmen such as Thomas Cook who democratized longer-range travel. Discover the pleasures of nineteenth and twentieth century leisure travel and the dramatic growth of tourism for the masses. This collection charts the development of one of the world's largest and most culturally significant industries. The growth of leisure travel has profoundly influenced global society in the past two hundred years and the unique primary sources in this resource allow scholars and students to trace the evolution and impact of this phenomenon.
  • Literary Manuscripts: Berg
    Literary Manuscripts Berg traces the genesis of some of the period's greatest literary masterpieces through the unique manuscripts of their authors, many unavailable elsewhere. They are supplemented by rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors. Each author collection is included in its entirety, allowing users to browse and search the manuscripts as they would in the Berg Reading Room. Authors represented include: Matthew Arnold, The Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.
  • Literary Manuscripts: Leeds
    This resource offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Alongside original compositions are copied verses, translations, songs and riddles. The whole collection is situated within an assortment of manuscripts, some entirely dedicated to poetry, while others contain medicinal recipes, household accounts, draft letters, musical scores and plays. There are also several printed works, with handwritten verse additions.
  • London Low Life
    From salacious 'swell's guides' to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London's bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children's chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature. London Low Life is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full color maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis' Street Views of London - a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld. This collection, drawn from the holdings of the Lilly Library, will be of interest to 19th century scholars researching: working-class culture, street literature, popular music, urban topography, 'slumming', prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Act, the Temperance Movement, social reform, Toynbee Hall, police and criminality.
  • Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
    Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 provides complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) and memoranda of Harold Macmillan's government, plus selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees.
  • Market Research and American Business Reports, 1935-1965
    A unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era's foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer.
  • Mass Observation Online
    A pioneering social research organization, Mass Observation was founded in 1937 by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, film-maker Humphrey Jennings and poet Charles Madge. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves', and by recruiting a team of observers and a panel of volunteer writers they studied the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. This landmark digital project opens up revolutionary access to the archive.
  • Medieval Family Life
    Only five major letter collections exist from fifteenth century England and they are all available online for the first time in this digital resource. The Paston Family Papers have long been a subject of both literary and historical interest. They are Britain's first surviving records of private correspondence, describing everyday life in East Anglia during the Wars of the Roses. In addition, we include four other valuable collections relating to medieval families in Essex, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Warwickshire, c1400-1490. This resource contains full color images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions.
  • Medieval Travel Writing
    Explore this magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with a focus on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. These sources tell us much about the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science. Topics covered include: pilgrimage, the origins of global trade, travels to the Holy Land, the Silk Road, and the representation of the 'East' and the 'Other' in the Middle Ages.
  • Meiji Japan
    Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925). Edward S Morse (1838-1925) was a great polymath - notable for his work in natural history, ethnography and art history - but, perhaps most famous for his work in bringing Japan and the West closer together. Morse was one of the first Americans to live in Japan - teaching science at the Imperial University of Tokyo - and he devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization.
  • Migration to New Worlds, Module I: The Century of Immigration
    Set against a backdrop of colonial expansion, industrial progress and global conflict, Migration to New Worlds tells the stories of individuals and families who risked everything to build new lives in North America and Australasia between 1800 and 1980. From the period 1800 to 1924, this module covers all aspects of the migration experience, from motives and departures to arrival and permanent settlement. To supplement this, the collection includes early material such as the first emigration 'round robin' from 1621 and letters from late eighteenth century merchants and travelers in the United States.
  • New York Times Historical
    Provides access to the full-text of newspaper articles from the New York Times covering 1857 to the last few years.
  • Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
    Searchable database containing digital images of 19th-century newspapers presented as full page layouts as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. Collection includes newspapers from urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
  • Nixon Years, 1969-1974
    The Nixon Years, 1969-1974, is part of Archives Direct, a cross-searchable multi-product platform, sourced from The National Archives, UK.
  • Perdita Manuscripts
    This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama.
  • Picture Post Historical Archive: 1938-1957
    Comprises the complete archive of the Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957 digitized from originals in color.
  • Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
    Political Extremism and Radicalism includes periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera. The Libraries provides online access to the following components of this database using one search interface, Part 1: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century and Part 2: Far-Right Groups in America.
  • Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
    Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture - the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. There was the onset of Rock & Roll; the introduction of computers and credit cards; the boom of radio and television; and campaigns for black power, civil rights and women's liberation. All around the world there were challenges to authority.
  • Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
    Explore the medicine chests and bookshelves of the everyday nineteenth-century American through a colorful array of advertisements, popular texts and much more. Uncover the history of 'popular' remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America, through primary source materials from the extensive collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  • Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press Best Bet New
    Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Ranging beyond a few specific movements, the archive paints a broad picture of the counterculture and many disparate organizations that represent this moment in modern Western history. Although the archive concentrates mainly on the United States and the United Kingdom, it also covers events and topics from around the globe. [Description from the vendor]
  • Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
    Discover the working methods of Romantic poets and trace the evolution of celebrated verse with the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust. This digital resource offers unparalleled access to the single largest collection of working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers anywhere in the world. With access to the annotated full manuscripts of such notable works as The Prelude and Michael, or Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode this project is unrivalled in its content and scope.
  • Scopus
    Comprehensive abstract and citation database of scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes coverage from 1788 to present with over 90 million records.
  • Serial Set Maps Best Bet
    Serial Set Maps include maps originally published in the reports and documents of the United States Congress from 1817-1980. The maps cover diverse subjects such as military history, agriculture, forestry, and transportation. Many historical maps (from the 18th century and later) are included in this set. They are indexed by the geographic areas they depict, the subjects they represent, their titles, and the names associated with the maps either as cartographers, explorers, or in some other capacity.
  • Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection Best Bet New
    The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737, are presented in digitized format here. The collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into seventeenth and eighteenth century England. [Description from the vendor]
  • Shakespeare in Performance: The Folger Shakespeare Library Prompt Books
    This resource features the world-famous prompt book collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare's plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. A prompt book is the main copy of a production script. They include personal notes, sketches and cues for lighting and music, from set design and costume to music and acting. Researchers can follow how each individual production unfolded; see what amendments were made to the text and stage management over the years; and explore the influences and connections between different productions of the same play.
  • Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
    Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
  • Slavery in America and the World
    Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes colonial, state, and federal statutes along with pamphlets, magazine articles, and books about slavery.
  • Times Digital Archive: 1785-2019 Digital Archive Best Bet New
    The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Read by both world leaders and the general public, The Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. With over 12 million articles available, the archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy, along with coverage of all major international historical events. [Description from the vendor]
  • Travel Writing: Spectacle and World History
    Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. This world history resource offers students and researchers a window to the past and transports them across continents. From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women.
  • Victorian Popular Culture: Sections I-IV
    This resource contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. As well as fascinating primary source material in the form of objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs and playbills, the resource includes a number of tools to support teaching and research.
  • Virginia Company Archives
    This resource documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. It shows the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas and provides a rich source for the study of trade between Britain and America.
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
    Organized by historiographic questions, each of which includes an interpretative essay and related primary source materials. It also includes book, film, & website reviews, as well as teaching strategies.
  • Women in the National Archives
    A finding aid for women's studies resources in The National Archives, UK is presented alongside original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories. The original primary source documents cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962. The addition of four significant Home Office 45 files on the suffrage question plus an extended chronology further enhance the collection.
  • Women Writers Online
    The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Its goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. The project supports research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
  • Women's Studies Archive: Women's Issues and Identities
    A comprehensive archival resource including primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more, Women's Issues and Identities focuses on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  • World's Fairs: A Global History of Expositions
    This digital resource offers a unique insight into the phenomenon of international expositions. Over 200 world's fairs and exhibitions, spanning 1829-2015, are represented through a range of primary sources. From planning committees to public reception and the legacy that remains, the impact of these global events can be examined in a comprehensive context.