University Libraries

19th Century UK Periodicals covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. 

African American Archives provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience.

This collection was developed with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) as part of an effort to preserve serials related to African American religious life and culture.

Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A comprehensive historical collection of primary source materials that covers American history, literature, culture and daily life.

Offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

American Fiction, 1774–1920 contains more than 17,800 titles and is comprised of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through W

Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this collection of documents brings to life American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II.

Covers over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940.

The Archive of Americana features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more.

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1 consists of titles from the 13th century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions with the majority of titles from the 19th century.

British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world.

British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Poole's Index.

ProQuest and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have teamed up to digitize the association’s archives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civi

Provides indexing of many Congressional publications from 1789 to the present, including Hearings, Committee Prints, Research Reports, Legislative Histories, and much more.

DigitalNC is the online home for materials presented by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early years of the 19th century.

East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London.

A variety of materials is included—from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera—with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors.

English Historical Documents is a comprehensive, annotated collection of over 5,000 documents on British history.

Fold3 provides access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

An interdisciplinary academic collection devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans covering the tumultuous period from 1900 to present day. From U.S.

Gale NewsVault searches across a range of historical newspaper and periodical collections. It includes over ten million page images spanning four hundred years.

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.

Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue, with full-page and article images in PDF format.

American Consumer Culture provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting documents.

Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue, with full-page and article images in PDF format.

A free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers.

Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Each newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD)  includes the immediate experiences of 1,017 women, as revealed in approximately 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, and manuscripts.

The University of Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning.

This collection provides insight on fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources.

Readex AllSearch is a streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex's historical collections.

This collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s.

Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early years of the 19th century.

Online primary source materials including manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and other documents for the study of slavery, abolition and social justice.

The Times Digital Archive (London) provides access to the entire newspaper, with all news articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, editorial and commentary, and features.

The United States Congressional Serial Set contains House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports.

The Washington Post has been known for its national political coverage, international reporting, and investigating reporting.