Collection of primary sources for American history, such as The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Virginia Gazette, The Liberator, Godey’s Lady’s Book, The Woman’s Tribune, and Frank Leslie’s Weekly.
Fully searchable works by and about African Americans during a pivotal period of segregation and disenfranchisement, from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond.
Fully searchable printed works essential for understanding the African-American struggle for identity from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow.
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collections, Albright College offers access to their Nicaragua Revolution: David Schwartz Collection, an archive containing slides that were taken during photographer, David Schwartz's time in Nicaragua and Cuba in the late 1970's and early-mid 1980's.
Cross-searchable platform of primary source collections. Contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other scarce material printed and distributed in America during the 17th-19th centuries, documenting American history, culture, and daily life.
Group of online collections: Papers of Dolley Madison, Papers of James Madison, Papers of George Washington, Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney & Harriott Pinckney Horry, Pinckney Statesmen collection, and Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution.
Alternate Name(s)
Library of Congress American Memory
Online collection of written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music documenting the American experience.
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications, popular newspapers, and commercial publishing: included are America's Historical Imprints, 1639-1800; America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876; American State Papers, 1789-1876; U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980.
Bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collections, Carleton College Special Collections & Archives offers access to The Carleton Miscellany and Haldore Hanson's China Collection (1937-1938).
A collection of Foreign Office files exploring the history of Persia (Iran), Central Asia and Afghanistan from the decline of the Silk Road in the first half of the nineteenth century to the establishment of Soviet rule over parts of the region in the early 1920s.
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collections, Chatham University Archives & Special Collections offers access to their Minor Bird Collection and Eden Hall Architectural Plans and Drawings Collection.
Historical map collection with rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World.
Primary sources, supporting materials, archives, and video content designed to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy.
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material covering colonial history, politics, culture and society from 1492 to 1962.
Full-text of works by named and anonymous authors from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13th century, through the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, to British poets of the 19th century.
FBI files on African Americans and others considered "politically suspect" from 1920 to 1984, including members of protest groups, Socialists, Communists, militant labor unionists, and many more.
Primary source documents from and about missionary activity in the United States, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the Sandwich Islands during the 19th Century.
Video archive of African American oral histories documenting the men and women who have made significant contributions to American life, history, and culture during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Digital archive containing firsthand accounts from sources around the world, covering such events as post-World War II Jewish resettlement, South African apartheid, Latin American migrations to the United States, and more.
Digitized Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada, from historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, find coverage of events reported by and for Indigenous communities.
A comprehensive collection for exploration of the political, social, and cultural history of native peoples from the sixteenth century well into the twentieth century. The collection features indigenous-language materials, including dictionaries, bibles, and primers.
The digital Loeb Classical Library offers an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin Classical literature, history, philosophy, and more.
Alternate Name(s)
Cultural Equity; ACE Online Archive
The archives of noted musicologist, folklorist and sound recordist Alan Lomax, contains teaching resources, sound recordings, photograph collections, video collections, discussions, interviews, lectures, radio shows.
Provides documents and records of the civil rights movement, including internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices, along with first-hand views into crucial issues.
Full access to The New York Times and International New York Times content. Access also includes unlimited access to the Archives and learning tools such as the Learning Network and the New York Times inEducation website. Note: First time users will need to create a one year renewable account using these instructions
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collections, Notre-Dame offers access to their Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies (LERC): The Lebanese Aboard the Titanic-Paintings Project and Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection.
Index with select transcripts of full oral interviews, including Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews and more.
Provides trustworthy, annotated primary texts from writers active between the 8th and 20th century, plus Classical Latin and Greek authors. Trial expires 8/24/23
The papers of three members of notable Pinckneys from South Carolina: brothers Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825) and Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828) and their cousin Charles Pinckney (1757–1824).
A collection of prominent Black newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender, Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, and The Norfolk Journal and Guide.
News articles from Ethnic NewsWatch, Chicago Defender (1910-1975), New York Times Historical (1851-2009), and the Washington Post Historical (1877-1996) in a single search.
An electronic archive of eighty-two documents carrying fragmentary texts written by Dickinson between 1870-1886, including poems, letters, and commentaries.
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collection, Roanoke College Digital Collections offers access to their Roanoke College Fresh Water Fishes of Virginia slide collection.
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collections, Smith College Special Collections offers access to three collections: Rotman Stereograph Collection, Historic Costume Collection, and Van Buren Antiquities Collection.
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collections, Trinity College offers access to four archive collections: Webster Collection WWI Photos, Hartford Collection, British Theatre Playbills, and George Watson Cole European Postcards.
Part of JSTOR's Open Community Collections, University of Pennsylvania offers access to five archival collections: Marion Anderson Collection of Photographs, Etta Winigrad Sculptures, Philip H. Ward Collection of Theatrical Images, 1856-1910, Furness Theatrical Images Collection, and Alumni Association of the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing.
A collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies, covering commerce, exploration, science/technology, military, environment, health, social issues, and others.
Full text searchable newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) that form a comprehensive collection of early English news media.
Alternate Name(s)
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Full text of journals, magazines, and specialty newspapers that portray British life in the Victorian Age. Subscription includes Series 1: New Readerships and Series 2: Empire.