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Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism, including a large collection of narratives by enslaved people.

Presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.

Provides primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary, and social history, ethnic studies, and more (1827-1998).

More than 7,000 videos including commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.

Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.

Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more.

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 1975.

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.

Indexes millions of nineteenth-century articles, books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers, and archives.

This collection provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West.

Colonial America consists of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London.

Offers a searchable collection of public records concerning enslavement.

Virtually every work printed before 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere.

Complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015.

Contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires.

Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

English-language full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from around the world.

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).

The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 2009.

Presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact.

Comprises 365,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records; a tool for medievalists to identify the contents of current work.

Provides access to more than 280 Latin American newspapers published between 1805 and 1922.

Insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting documents.

Focuses on primary source collections including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.

Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

Primary sources on the experiences of over 1,000 North American women as revealed in approximately 150,000 pages of diaries, letters, and manuscripts.

Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers (1764-2005).

Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s.

Thematically organized, historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.

Provides access to the papers of the British Secretary of State from 1509 to 1782, concerning administration of the country, foreign affairs, marriage alliances, treaties, and wars.

Presents primary source 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.