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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. |
1800-1899 |
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19th Century UK Periodicals covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. |
1800-1900 |
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Full-text ebooks on a wide variety of topics. Search by keyword, or browse by title or topic. |
Ancient world to present |
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African American Archives provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience. |
1672-1941 |
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Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. |
1840-2010 |
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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. |
1829-1922 |
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Primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary and social history; ethnic studies and more. |
1827-1998 |
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Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
1750-1900 |
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Provides more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
1800-1922 |
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A comprehensive historical collection of primary source materials that covers American history, literature, culture and daily life. |
1639-1900 |
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Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. |
1690-1922 |
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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. |
1760-1900 |
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Market Research and American Business provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting docum |
1935-1965 |
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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 |
1774-1920 |
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Commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. |
1500s-present |
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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. |
1493-1945 |
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American Indian Histories and Cultures is a digital resource presenting a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact. |
1493-2010 |
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Covers over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940. |
1740-1940 |
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Republication of approximately 6,280 numbered publications, largely Congressional, but also containing Executive Department materials issued from 1832-1861. |
1789-1838 |
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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. |
1639-1980 |
ArchiveGrid connects you with primary source material held in archives, special collections, and manuscript collections around the world. |
1800s-present |
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Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. |
1500-present |
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Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 presents a collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. |
1700s-1960 |
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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. |
1300s-1893 |
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ATLA Historical Monographs: Series 2 offers material on the significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans and the growing interest and experimentation with non-Western religions. |
1894-1922 |
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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. |
1000s-1800s |
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Collections range from digitized manuscripts (Beowulf and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook) and illuminated manuscripts, to an extensive collection of maps from around the world. |
1000-present |
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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. |
1700-1950 |
British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works. |
1150-1900 |
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C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Poole's Index. |
1800s |
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This collection provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West. |
1793-1980 |
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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 |
1909-1972 |
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Colonial America consists of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London. |
1606-1822 |
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Provides indexing of many Congressional publications from 1789 to the present, including Hearings, Committee Prints, Research Reports, Legislative Histories, and much more. |
1789-present |
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. |
1100-present |
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DigitalNC is the online home for materials presented by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. |
1800s-present |
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Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, Early American Imprints consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides. |
1639-1800 |
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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. |
1801-1819 |
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere. |
1473-1700 |
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East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. |
1599-1947 |
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The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015. |
1843-2015 |
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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. |
1700-1799 |
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Empire Online contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires. |
1492-2007 |
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English Historical Documents is a comprehensive, annotated collection of over 5,000 documents on British history. |
500-1914 |
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Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, Early American Imprints consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides. |
1639-1800 |
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Fold3 provides access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. |
1700s-1800s |
FBIS Daily Reports include English-language, full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from around the world. |
1941-1996 |
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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. |
1900-present |
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A research and learning platform that allows students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR text) from all of Gale's primary source collections. |
1500-present |
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Gale NewsVault searches across a range of historical newspaper and periodical collections. It includes over ten million page images spanning four hundred years. |
1604-2006 |
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Gale Primary Sources searches 18th Century Collections Online (ECCO), 19th Century Collections Online (NCCO), the Making of the Modern World, and Sabin Americana. |
1500-1926 |
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This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. |
10200 BCE-present |
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Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper |
1857-1877 |
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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. |
1700s-present |
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Latin American Newspapers provides access to more than 280 Latin American newspapers published between 1805 and 1922. Featuring titles from 20 countries in the region. |
1805-1922 |
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Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue, with full-page and article images in PDF format. |
1881-1999 |
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The Making of the Modern World is a digital collection of primary sources covering the history of Western trade. |
1450-1945 |
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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. |
1935-1965 |
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This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers. |
1700-1950 |
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Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue, with full-page and article images in PDF format. |
1851-2015 |
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online focuses on primary source collections including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. |
1796-1910 |
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A free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. |
1806-1890 |
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C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, and Poole's Index. |
1800s |
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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. |
1800-1899 |
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19th Century UK Periodicals covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. |
1800-1900 |
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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. |
Colonial to 1950 |
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Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection. 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 North Carolina county newspapers. |
1764-1999 |
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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. |
1500's-present |
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Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isle during the 16th and 17th centuries. |
1500-1700 |
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This collection provides insight on fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources. |
1900-2000 |
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Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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Readex AllSearch is a streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex's historical collections. |
1690-1999 |
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Religions of America traces the history and unique character of religious movements that originated in or were re-shaped by the US during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
1792-2004 |
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This collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s. |
1500-1926 |
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Represents the largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. |
1600-1800 |
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. |
1801-1819 |
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a thematically organized, historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. |
1490-1896 |
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Online primary source materials including manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and other documents for the study of slavery, abolition and social justice. |
1490 - 2007 |
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Provides access to over 3 million pages of 16th- & 17th-century British government documents and over 200,000 searchable pages of Calendars and catalogues. |
1509-1714 |
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The Times Digital Archive (London) provides access to the entire newspaper, with all news articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, editorial and commentary, and features. |
1785-2011 |
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The TLS Historical Archive, 1902-2012 provides full-text access to every page of every issue of the TLS from 1902 to 2012, including 300,000 book reviews, film reviews, and more. |
1902-2012 |
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The United States Congressional Serial Set contains House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports. |
1817-1980 |
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Wall Street Journal; Eastern Edition The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. |
1889-1994 |
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The Washington Post has been known for its national political coverage, international reporting, and investigating reporting. |
1877-1995 |
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This archive presents materials covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. |
1800's - 1999 |