Mixed Collections
- American Memory This link opens in a new windowOnline collection of written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music documenting the American experience.
- Empire Online (1492-1962) This link opens in a new windowFull text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material covering colonial history, politics, culture and society from 1492 to 1962.
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European HistoryRich website linking to primary sources for all periods of European history. Organized first by country, and then loosely chronologically. Includes transcriptions, facsimiles, and, sometimes, translations. Maintained at Brigham Young University.
- Modern History SourcebookA well-organized website with links to primary source documents, most in English translation. Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham.
- Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern EuropeHosted by the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University, this site compiles primary sources with background material on the momentous events of 1989.
Audio
- Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowMusic collection covering the genres of reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, Bollywood, and other traditional music, such as Indian classical, flamenco, zydeco, gospel, and more.
- Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowAn encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio.
- American Rhetoric & Speech BankIndex and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.
- Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new windowHistorical tracks from America's past. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Books
- Internet ArchiveAccess for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Supported by a non-profit organization.
Government Information
- CQ Press Electronic Library This link opens in a new windowReference works and historical documents on issues in U.S. politics, health care, education, economics, bioethics, environment and society.
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new windowDeclassified documents from US foreign and military policy since 1945.
- Foreign Relations of the United StatesOfficial documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Back volumes are in process of digitization.
Images
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowDigital image library offering searchable collections of images and descriptive information including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and more, encompassing many time periods and world cultures.
Note: First time, off-campus users accessing via OpenAthens will be required to create a personal account
- Internet Archive: Moving Image ArchiveInternet Archive's library of films. Includes animations, newsreels, documentaries, public information films, and TV commercials.
- LIFE MagazinePublished from 1936 to 1972, this influential magazine chronicled world events and brought stunning images of the world to American readers.
- New York Public Library Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowDigitized items from the New York Public Library, this is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new windowStreaming video of news from NBC (1968 to date) and CNN (1995 to date) plus indexing of television network news from all the major networks, 1968 to date.
Newspapers & Magazines
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text PDF facsimiles of specific articles as well as complete pages, including photos and advertisements, from every issue of the London Times.
- Alternative Press Index & Archive This link opens in a new windowBibliographic database for international alternative, radical, and left periodicals covering socialism, revolution, ecology, anarchism, feminism, sexuality, and organized labor.
- American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new windowDigitized American magazines and journals of all types, including America's first scientific journal, from ProQuest.
- America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 This link opens in a new windowCover-to-cover digitized historic newspapers from every state in the US from Readex.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowDigitized US newspaper pages from 1789-1963, as well as directory of information about historic newspapers published since 1690.
- New York Times: Historical This link opens in a new windowFull page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago.
- NewspaperArchive - Virginia This link opens in a new windowFull text pdfs for select historical newspapers from the state of Virginia, includes publications from Danville, Harrisonburg, and Petersburg.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new windowIndexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982.
Personal Accounts
- Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online This link opens in a new windowPrivate writings and personal narratives from diverse ethnic and social groups over several hundred years.
- Oral History Online This link opens in a new windowIndex with select transcripts of full oral interviews, including Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews and more.