Multimedia Collections
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Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834-1922 This link opens in a new windowA 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.
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Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)"The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users."
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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.
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Global Missions and Theology This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents from and about missionary activity in the United States, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the Sandwich Islands during the 19th Century.
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HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowCollection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
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Immigrations, Migrations, and Refugees This link opens in a new windowDigital 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.
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Internet History Sourcebooks ProjectA well-organized website with links to primary source documents, most in English translation. Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham.
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Literature on South AsiaDigitized publications from the Library of the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg.
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National Libraries of the WorldLinks to many national library websites. National libraries are often responsible for digitizing collections related to the history of the nation.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowMonographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more from the 19th century.
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World Digital LibrarySupported by the United Nations, this portal gathers digitized primary sources of every type from worldwide repositories, including many national museums and libraries.
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World History SourcesA project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this site gathers together and introduces repositories that contain primary sources from across the world.
Audio
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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.
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Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowAn encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio.
Images & Video
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ArchNetA rich open-source image collection focusing on cities, sites, and buildings in the Muslim world. Curated by MIT Libraries.
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JSTOR Image Search This link opens in a new windowArtstor is now on JSTOR. Digital image library offering searchable collections of images and descriptive information including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and more, encompassing many time periods and world cultures.
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British PathéA growing digital archive of newsreels created by the British Pathé company from the 1890s through the 1970s. These videos include areas such as historical events and documentaries as well as travelogues and contemporary coverage of culture.
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryThis multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.
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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.
Personal Accounts
To find personal accounts in the JMU Library Catalog, search for the phrase "personal narratives" with keywords.
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China Through Western EyesRecords of travelers from the late 18th to the mid-20th C.
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Japan Through Western EyesManuscript records of traders, travelers, missionaries and diplomats, 1853-1941.
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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.