Primary source collection focused on the history of European maritime exploration from 1420 to 1920.

Collection of oral history video interviews and artifacts from American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War (1937-1949).

Gale resource that contains primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities.

Archive (Gale) of Associated Press (AP) reporting, wire copy, and internal correspondence, memos, and documentation from AP bureaus worldwide.

EBSCO database that provides access to the literature in the fields of religious studies and theology, including journal articles, essays, and book reviews.

Largest collection of 18th- and 19th century Caribbean published newspapers. Most of the papers are published in English, but a number of other languages are also provided.

Publications and archives from an independent international affairs policy institute, including audio recordings and transcripts of debates and speeches it has hosted.

Official British government correspondence concerning Africa from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office between 1834 and 1966.

Historical map collection including rare 16th through 21st century maps.

Ebook collection traces history of printing in Europe from its origins to the close of the 17th century; with full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

Scanned copies of the paper issues of the various FBIS Daily Reports, which sought to record, translate, transcribea and analyze foreign foreign mass media.

Video testimonies of first-hand experiences of Nazi persecutions, including those in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resisters, and liberators; recorded in the language preferred by the witness.

History database (EBSCO) that provides access to journal articles that cover topics related to world history. For U.S. and Canadian history, see America: History and Life.

Covers European-language articles, books, and reviews related to Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, as well as Muslims elsewhere, and their history, societies, cultures, languages, and literatures.

Archive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by title).

Modern Language Association International Bibliography includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, film, and folklore.

Peer-reviewed articles and in-depth overviews of major areas of research in African history. Entries include audio, visual, and video materials, with links to digitized archives and primary sources.

Daily newspaper archive with full-text facsimile of more than 200 years (1785 to 2019, Sunday issues not included).

Primary source collection of streaming video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Collection of databases indexing scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, from journals, conference proceedings, symposia, and more. Includes citation network data.

Primary sources document issues of gender and class from the 18th century to early 20th century.

Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Includes core texts: The civilizations of t...

Documents recounting the exemplary lives, deaths, miracles, and other deeds of saints of the Roman Catholic Church, plus major historical moments in their subsequent veneration. Annotated edition.

Electronic text-and-image site devoted to a pioneering and highly influential Europeanemblem book, the Emblemata of Andrea Alciato. It includes an edition of the visual images and the Latin text fr...

ALIM is an ongoing project, sponsored by the Italian Unione Accademica Nazionale and by six Italian universities, to present scholarly electronic texts of all Latin-language works written in Italy ...

Covers classical studies and information on Ancient Greece and Rome, including literature, history, civilization, law, philosophy, science, technology, and more.

Arachne is the central Object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. Arachne is intended to provide archaeologists and ...

Bibliography covers the history and archaeology of medieval East Central and Eastern Europe, from about AD 500 to the aftermath of the Mongol invasion of 1241.

A database of all the Latin texts from the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana since its foundation.

Interdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective.

Modern dictionary for Ancient Greek (English translation).

Online reference work covers the history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.

Complete and unabridged online editions of four reference works in medieval studies.

Online encyclopedia covering aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman world, from the second millennium BCE to early medieval Europe.

Online reference collection covering the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.

This source is the electronic version of the classic Catholic Encyclopedia, published between 1907-1914. A very few articles have been updated or added, such as ones on the twentieth century Popes,...

The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC) makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and s...

Focused on the history and archaeology of the region around the Mediterranean Sea from 800 BCE to 476 CE. Covers early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology.

Early Church Fathers is a database containing virtually all the contents (minus the indexes) of three late nineteenth-century English-language translations of important writings of the early Christ...

ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative electronic publishing project providing resources relevant to the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. ETENA includes three databa...

Online encyclopedia of Church prelates in the Middle Ages.

Feminae is a multilingual scholarly index that covers articles about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 CE to 1500 CE) collected from over 500 journals published from 1990 to ...

International database of 15th-century European imprints for nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501. Includes some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th ce...

The major index to medieval studies (c. 400-1500). Includes citations to articles in thousands of journals and "miscellany" volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften).

Bibliography of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 - 1700): citations of books, journal articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations and more.

Database of uncataloged or incompletely cataloged Renaissance Humanistic manuscripts in collections and libraries around the world, as originally published in Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum.

Lexikon des Mittelalters Online (LexMa) is a major German-language encyclopedia of medieval studies. International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online (IEMA), is an English-language supplement.

The American Numismatic Society database contains images of thousands of objects in the Society's collections. These include, coins, paper money, tokens, primitive money, medals and decorations, fr...

A database of medieval manuscripts (mostly in Greek or Latin) from the German-speaking areas of Europe. (Updated regularly)

Online version of J.F. Niermeyer's concise dictionary of medieval Latin, with French, English and German translations for every entry of a Medieval Latin concept and searches on lemma and full text.

Mediaevum.de is a German-language Internet portal for students of medieval German language and literature, providing annotated listings of many important or otherwise useful sites in this disciplin...

A collection of approximately 35 public-domain searchable and downloadable English-language translations of major ancient Greek and Latin and medieval western European literary texts. Most are nine...

Primary source collection on life in medieval and early modern Europe and the Americas.

Searchable, full-text scholarly editions and translations of medieval Latin dictaminal texts from Alberic of Monte Cassino into the 13th century. Whereas the primary focus is on texts relating to t...

Digitized medieval manuscripts from 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.

Mittelalterliche Literatur im Internet is the e-texts portion of the German-language Internet portal Mediaevum.de. It provides links to collections of medieval literary texts, and to e-texts of a n...

This is the searchable electronic text version of the massive, printed set also called Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), a collection of primary materials for the study of the European Middle Ages.

Reference tool of authoritative research guides for the study of Classical Studies and Ancient History, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

Online encyclopedia of everything relating to ancient Greece and Rome, with updated and expanded content beyond the print edition of the OCD.

Concise encyclopedia of ancient Greek and Roman civilization. A handy resource for quick look-ups.

Online encyclopedia covering many aspects of Christianity.

Online encyclopedia related to Ancient Greece and Rome; covers major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world - Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman - from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE.

Collection of authoritative editions of the writings of the ancient Greek poet Homer in original Greek text and English translations; includes commentaries and research tools.

The first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855, 1862-1865), which comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

Digital library of resources for the study of the humanities, with textual and visual materials on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.

Perspecuitas is a German-language collection of articles, bibliographies, reviews, project announcements, and other scholarly material dealing with medieval German language, literature, and culture...

Early English manuscripts, yearbooks and more illustrating English and American legal history; includes other digests, abridgments, and modern encyclopedias that formed the foundation of English law.

Annual collected bibliography of books and articles on aspects of Greek epigraphy, as well as summaries of Greek inscriptions. Material later than the 8th century A.D. is not included.

Multimedia, multilingual database of medieval exemplary stories, or exempla in Latin. Exempla are brief moral tales used in preaching and in other forms of instructional literature of the Middle Ages.

Tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.

Electronic version of the series of registers and letters of the popes from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, preserved in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano in Rome.

Searchable collection of 19th-century digitized pamphlets which document socio-political and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.

Digital archive of magazines and journals from nineteenth century Britain and its colonies, with particular focus on Victorian age lifestyle publishing and the British Empire.

Searchable database of Medieval Latin abbreviations.

Collection of over 5,700 scholarly e-books, from over 125 publishers.

Journal articles and reports covering modern aviation, aeronautics and space sciences during the second half of the 20th century, collected and translated by a U.S. government organization.

Archive of materials collected by U.S. diplomats on the internal and foreign affairs of Afghanistan, from 1945 to 1963.

Printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage for researching the history of European colonization and exploitation across the African continent.

Collection of primary source documents, secondary sources and videos that focus on communities of people of African descent in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France.

Books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history, peoples, and social and economic development of the African continent from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

The Air University Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items and editorials appearing in 76 English language military and aeronautical periodicals. (Updat...

Federated search portal across all primary source materials in our subscribed social sciences and humanities collections (15th - 21st century) from Adam Matthew.

A platform of online learning tools designed to introduce humanities and social science students to key approaches and methodologies of working with primary source material.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.

News articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world, covering race relations in the United States that were collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

Digitized records of an organization focused on campaigning for an end to human rights violations and abuses of all kinds in all parts of the world.

Ancestor search and genealogical information from census records, historical maps, and more.

Online encyclopedia of worldwide coverage of the origins, forms, practitioners, and effects of antisemitism, leading to the Holocaust through the present day.

Associated Press photographs, charts, illustrations, stories, audio clips, etc. from the 1800s and updated daily. Searchable on multiple criteria (e.g., time, people, concept, captions, text, etc.).

Archive of British government files containing letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists' biographies and first-hand accounts of events during South Africa's apartheid regime.

Translated TV and radio broadcasts, periodicals, newspapers, and government documents on Apartheid, from those who experienced apartheid and those around the world who watched and analyzed it.

Primary source records of Western traders, travelers, missionaries and diplomats document Chinese culture and society, and economic development in East Asia and Southeast Asia (17th-20th century).

Primary source collection of materials documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan, from 1400 to the 20th century.

Collection of academic ebooks related to archaeology cover data-rich studies from all periods from prehistory, through classical archaeology, to historical periods, and up to the 21st century.

Collection of summary intelligence briefing reports prepared for Britain and its allies starting prior to WWII, based on broadcast data from open, publicly available sources.

Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories. BOHWS has been designed to benefit hist...

Bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, the British Empire and Commonwealth, during periods for which written documentation is available, from 55BC to the present.

The Biblioteca Digital Mexicana is a multi-institutional initiative to create a digital collection of historical documents from Mexico from 500 A.D. to 1949. The documents range from pre-hispanic c...

Connects users to digital geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, Web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs.

Alphabetically arranged, German-language biographical and bibliographical dictionary of prominent figures in the history and study of the Christian church in all its branches and denominations.

Article database (some full text) of scholarly journals from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean covers topics and issues of importance to the Black Studies discipline.

Online bibliography of book and library history from scholarly publications written from a historical perspective; covers papermaking, bookbinding, book illustration, type design, libraries, and more.

Primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera related to significant border areas and migration events from the 19th to 21st centuries.

Archive of correspondence, minutes, memoranda and confidential prints related to the British/Indian Army expedition to Mesopotamia during World War I.

Video and transcripts of C-Span programming since 1987.

Collection of primarily French language journals in the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Searchable collection of books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history of the Caribbean region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

Archive of video segments from six decades of news programming and journalistic coverage of American and world history events, as they were originally reported by CBS News, 1950s-2010s.

CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, dissertations from outside of the U.S., with content from Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.

Digitized records of a foundational organization in the Anglican evangelical movement, covering its missionary activities in Africa, East Asia, India, Americas, and Middle East (1799-1970s).

Periodicals from the Church Missionary Society Archive, covering gender and families, medicine, education, development of native churches, political conflict, social reform, linguistics, exploration.

Includes original documents produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.

Translated reports, publications, news broadcasts covering facets of the Cold War, focusing on news outlets in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Vietnam and more.

Manuscript materials of the Colonial Office files; contains original correspondence of the North American and Caribbean colonial governments with the British government, covering 1606 to 1822.

UK National Archives database of digitized colonial records from 1574 to 1757, that relate to the governance of, and activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies of England.

Archive of journal articles, government publications, newspapers, and transcribed television and radio broadcasts from around the world documenting the history and impact of computer science between 1957 and 1995.

Official British government correspondence and internal papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices (FCO) concerning Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

Official British government correspondence and internal papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices (FCO) concerning the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan.

Official British government correspondence and internal papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices (FCO) concerning the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean from 1824 to 1961.

Corpus of French-speaking literature from the Indian Ocean from the origins to the Independence (18th century - 1960).

Primary source collection of items originating from prisoners held in German concentration camps, internment and transit camps, Gestapo prisons, and POW camps, during and just prior to World War II.

Archive of primary source materials related to criminal history, law, literature, and justice in nineteenth century Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand).

Searchable database of biographies and obituaries from the Current Biography Yearbook since 1940, supplemented by citations and commentary.

Full digital facsimile archive of over 100 years of major daily UK newspaper.

Explores traditional models and contemporary perceptions of gender through correspondence, advice literature, periodicals, ephemera, and government documents covering the 15th to early 20th century.

Archive of documents collected by U.S. diplomats on the political, economic and social development of Turkey during a period of democratization in the 1950s.

The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United S...

Searchable index to over 33,000 peer-reviewed Open Access books from over 400 academic publishers from around the world.

Collection of primary sources, supporting materials, archives, and video, as voiced by the disability community.

Collection of documents concerning the Dreyfus affair, including Dreyfud documents and rarely seen archival materials.

Digitized collection of books on a variety of subjects, printed from the 15th to 19th century in Arabic script, as well as translations into European and Asian languages.

Archive of British weekly newspaper (1843 to 2020), covers political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural developments in the world.

Full text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800 that were catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC).

Digital archive of rare journals printed between c.1685 and 1835 document all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life of the time.

Offers a global perspective on empire from French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German points of view, as well as that of indigenous peoples from Africa, India, and North America.

Primary source archive of materials on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class.

English-language resource on Judaism. Covers diverse areas of Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings. Robust articles and bibliographies included.

This standard resource offers 15,000 articles on the current state of the Islamic world, from religion and history to politics and culture.

Comprehensive reference source that examines the early modern period in history (1450-1850 CE), with a geographic focus on Europe, including its relationship to the greater world.

Core archive of trade magazines in the fields of film, music, broadcasting, theater, and video games through 2020.

Reference database of records contained in collections of essays and anthologies published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, in the humanities and social sciences.

Newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press, from Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, multi-ethnic communities.

Collection of correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other documents related to U.S. consular activities in Italian colonies in the early twentieth century.

Complete run of the London edition of this daily paper, from its first issue through 2021.

Primary source materials covering the First World War; covering experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of a conflict; propaganda and recruitment; and visual perspectives.

Historical primary documents featuring U.S. city directories, naturalization records, and Revolutionary War pensions.

Primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history, illustrating links between food and identity, politics, power, gender, race, and socio-economic status.

Collection of archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us.

Digital magazine archive (1917 to 2000) covers analysis on business leaders, politics, entertainment, technology, communication, and culture.

Collection of diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles from the British Foreign Office files dealing with the Middle East during the 1970s.

Primary source collection of documents related to European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples of the areas.

Cross-searches Gale newspapers archives, covering over 400 years of content, with over 10 million pages of full text images. Includes all online Gale newspapers currently licensed for UW-Madison.

FOIA files, memcons and telcons from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library documenting the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and its implications for U.S.-German relations.

Collection of materials covering the planning and organization of the October 1991 Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, including correspondence, memoranda, diplomatic dispatches, cables, and maps.

Searchable collection of publications dating from 1543 to 1945 documenting the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights.

Visual, manuscript and printed materials of 15 major commodities : chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat and wine/spirits.

The Gutenberg-e prizewinning books cover a wide range of topics and represent the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology.

H-Net Reviews publishes reviews of books and multimedia materials. While the focus is on history, many reviews of current and contemporary topics are also included. Reviews are written by academic ...

The Jewish National and University Library, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project, is pleased to offer access to its Historic Hebrew Newspapers project. The aim of this site is to prov...

Primary source archive of declassified documents in English about Germany (1918 to 1939) from the UK Foreign Office and British Embassy reports, correspondence, transcripts of speeches, and more.

Collection of American military camp newspapers from World War I covers social insights into the war, attitudes among military personnel, politics of the time, training, and news about the enemy.

A collection of primary source material documenting the history of disability in society.

Primary source materials on Slavery and Southern plantations document the functioning of the slave system through ledgers, correspondence, petitions, photographs, diaries, legal documents, and more.

Primary and secondary source materials (documents and video) of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide, from 1900 to 2010.

Focuses on German and international humanities and social sciences research, with some interdisciplinary coverage of the natural sciences. Searchable in English and German.

Digital newspaper archive of the Illustrated London News from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003.

News articles, radio and television transcripts covering reports on human migrations and refugee experiences collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from 1940s to 1996.

Open access newspaper collection of over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929) documents the dramatic events of this era.

Article database of English language Jewish studies journals published in the United States, Canada, England, Israel, South Africa, and Australia.

Historical document collection on the military history of South Asia and the British military experience in India.

Historical statistics from over 260 years and over 200 countries or territories across a range of interdisciplinary socio-economic topics. Data include footnotes and are available as Excel or PDF.

Archive of documents and reports of the Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group, established in 1979 to maintain a healthy bilateral economic relationship between the two countries.

Digitized and searchable version of the Jewish Encyclopedia, originally published between 1901-1906.

Digitized collection of Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe, from 16th century to early 20th century.

Archive of a Cold War-era U.S. government organization that translated and analyzed foreign documents on scientific and technical topics, environmental concerns, nuclear proliferation and more.

JTA Jewish & Israel News is a searchable database chronicling modern Jewish history, as seen through the eyes of journalists. It consists of articles published or disseminated by the JTA (Jewish Te...

Archive of Arabic language books published from 1820-1914 from across the Islamic world, focused on Egypt and Syria. Topics include philosophy, theology, literature, history and the arts and sciences.

Index to citations and abstracts of political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship of the left from 1900 to present, inside and outside academia.

Collection of guidebooks, brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals documenting the growth of tourism for the masses.

Database of books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.

The Liberation Journals Index is an analytic, searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques...

Collection of Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

Primary sources in maritime archives and collections document the lives of seafarers in the Anglo-American maritime world from 1600-1900, from personal memoirs, ships’ logs, and court records.

Brings to life the underworld of Victorian London, inviting users to explore working-class culture, street literature, popular music, and more. Fully searchable rare books, maps, and other materials.

Official government files and correspondence related to the Cabinet of Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister of the British Government from 1957 to 1963.

This growing resource consists of tables of contents of European (including British) historical journals. It is intended to help researchers locate articles by browsing through the tables of conten...

Research collection documenting history of the dynamics of Western trade, 1500 to the early 20th century. Covers historical underpinnings supporting the study of economics and European imperialism.

Original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization which studied the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain from 1937 until the mid-1950s.

Archival collection on the history of injury, treatment and disease during wartime and interwar periods, documenting how war shaped medical practice and scientific advances between 1850 to 1949.

Translated journals, newspapers, scientific reports, radio and television broadcasts from 19 countries in North Africa and the Middle East covering cultural, economic and political developments within the regions.

Primary source collection covers British, European and Asian migration through personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature, and organizational papers, as well as teaching and research aids.

Searchable digital archive of left-wing UK daily tabloid newspaper, from 1903 to 2000.

Historical primary source materials related to missionary work around the world, including educational work, medical work, evangelism, political conflict, and the emergence of indigenous churches.

Digital movies uploaded by Archive users, ranging from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts, many of which are available for free download.

Collection drawn from the FBI Headquarters Library documents the surveillance of noncitizens and national security during World War II and the early postwar period. Includes the Custodial Detention Index (CDI).

Digitized archive of a German-language daily newspaper, originally offering a socialist perspective during the Cold War, and a contemporary communist and socialist perspectives since reunification.

Primary source collection of 19th century books, newspapers and periodicals, diaries and personal letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, and maps sourced from world libraries and archives.

Collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global reaction to the world Arms Race.

Journal articles and reports covering the development and use of nuclear energy during the second half of the 20th century, collected and translated by a U.S. government organization.

Multimedia archival collection documents the global history of the Olympic movement - from the organization of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, to the 1992 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

Reference tool of authoritative research guides designed to support the study of Geography, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Online encyclopedia of topics related to women and gender studies; covers geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and biographies, pre-history to the 2000s.

Subject-based research guides containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars in the field. Handbooks contain topical introductions and reviews of the key issues and major debates.

Emphasizes factual and statistical information of interest to the general public related to current public and social policy in fields such as law, education, medicine, business and transportation.

Digital edition of Grant's papers, based on the original letterpress edition edited by John Y. Simon, including all editorial annotations, introductory essays, and appendices.

Digitized, full-image journal articles from hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, published from 1802 to 2005.

Article database for social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany.

Primary source materials about far-right and radical left political groups; covers philosophical, social, political, and economic ideologies, gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, and more.

Primary sources for the study and understanding of European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the post-war refugee crisis in Europe.

Archival collection documents social climate, working conditions, and public policy in Britain between the introduction of the New Poor Law in 1834 and the abolition of the workhouse system in 1930.

Archive of Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, from 1959 to 1996, and translated into English by the FBIS, a U.S. government organization.

This is a digital collection of the first books printed in Mexico before 1601. These monographs represent the first printing in the New World and provide primary sources for scholarly studies focus...

Journals and ebooks covering art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, history, ethnic and cultural studies, music, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology and women's studies.

Articles published by Chinese newspapers from 1946-1996, translated into English, providing a view of Chinese mass media treatment of international issues and events during the period.

French newspaper archive covers issues and events since 1944: World War II and the establishment of the Fifth Republic; politics in France, Europe and beyond; society and business.

Collection of news publications in English covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice (1845 to 2015).

Irish newspaper database with comprehensive news reporting, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more, beginning with 1859.

Collection of World War II leaflets and periodicals in over 10 languages, mostly created by the Allies, that were air dropped, or fired by artillery shell over German occupied territory.

High-resolution color images of every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria's journals, with images and other supporting material. Includes full, searchable transcriptions.

Article database of journals and magazines covering a wide range of information about history, culture, and developments across nearly a century.

Searchable, multimedia collection supporting the study of important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the 21st century.

Wartime newspapers (1939-1948) for soldiers serving in major theaters around the world, published in the US, Canada, New Zealand, India, and the countries of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Digitized collection of newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets from 1672-1737 held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, UK.

Collection of primary sources documenting the wide-ranging breadth and experience of human sexuality.

Contains the full run of Shanghai-based Shen Bao (formerly transliterated as Shun Pao), the longest-lasting and probably most influential newspaper in modern China. Content and site are in Chinese.

Archival collection documenting the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of slavery, and the dynamics of emancipation.

Collection of primary source documents related to slavery and abolition studies dating from 1490 to 2007, supported by scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources, chronology, and bibliography.

Access to millions of 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections, including images and data from across 19 museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Archive of government documents from Great Britain covers politics, international relations with Western Europe and the colonial world, from the 16th through the late 18th centuries.

Digital magazine archive (1857-2014) covering news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more.

Digital archive of news magazine (1923-2000) that covers current events, national and international news, politics, entertainment, and sports.

Full text archive of the Times Literary Supplement, which contains reviews of books, theatre and musical performances, art exhibitions, film, and other cultural events.

Collection of accounts by women of their travels across the globe (early 19th century to late 20th century), from manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks, and photographs.

Provides searchable and browsable access to full text of Australian newspapers and magazines (1802+). (Updates ongoing)

Focuses on gender roles and relations, American consumerism, views of democratic citizenship, character development for children, post-war changes, class relations, and adjustments to new technology.

Archive of records of the U.S. Operations Mission established to intervene in Vietnam.

The UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 are made available through a partnership between the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. More than 7...

Multidisciplinary resource for Victorian studies and culture, with primary and secondary texts.

Archive of Ferrar Papers, supporting study of English colonial history, the Virginia colony's economic development and settlement from the perspective of the Virginia Company of London (1606-24).

Document collection on witchcraft dating from 1500 to 1930 includes classic texts, anti-persecution writings, works by penologists, legal and church documents, and transcripts of trials and exorcisms.

Document archive of feminist activism related to development efforts of women in the Global South and their allies working to balance economic growth and social improvement while navigating equity and fairer allocation of resources.

Document collection representing women's voices on prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality.

Primary source collection of writings of women activists and conference proceedings at which pivotal decisions in women's social movements were made.

Searchable finding aid of women’s studies resources in the National Archives, UK, and digitized documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories, 1903-1962.

Archive from the Committee of Correspondence, a U.S. women's organization that advocated for women’s involvement in foreign policy and in the post war global governance system in the period after WWII.

Materials from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library document the tenures and work of the Special Assistant to the President for Women, from 1974 to 1977.

A collection of historical periodicals published and written for or by women in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Collection of printed and manuscript sources offer a variety of perspectives on the social, political and cultural history of notable and influential women, primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources.

Materials in the Imperial War Museum document social, political, military and gender history during World War I, and the situation of women and men, soldiers and civilians in wartime society.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global reaction to major protest and reform movements.

Primary sources related to World War II; covers government policy, the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe, records of the Special Operations Executive, private diaries, and Russian propaganda.

Collection of official records, monographs, publicity, and artifacts related to 200 international expositions and world’s fairs, with extensive materials from 12 “case-study” fairs.

Japanese newspaper database that contains 3 databases: Rekiahikan (1871-present), Yomiuri Shimbun (1986-preent), and Daily Yomiuri (English) (1989-present).

Developed by the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), ZEFYS is the portal for accessing digitized German historical newspapers, as well as full-text and selected web resources and dat...