History: Primary Sources

Coverage: 1540-1921

Covers the history of Africa and its diverse people over nearly 400 years and includes more than 1,300 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

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Coverage: 1535-1922

Database of more than 12,000 printed books, pamphlets, and broadsides recording African American history, literature and culture from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

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Coverage: 1535-1922

Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this primary source collection provides full text access to over 150,000 early American books, pamphlets and broadsides. This resource includes the Evans Series (1639-1800), Shaw-Shoemaker Series (1801-1819), American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900), Afro-Americana Imprints (1535-1922), African History and Culture (1540-1921), Black Authors (1556-1922), and Caribbean History and Culture (1535-1920).

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Coverage: 13th-20th centuries

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) covers classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing from the 13th through the 20th century. Some full text is available.

Coverage: 13th century-1893

Series 1 provides an archive of religious and theological literature from the late 13th century through 1893. Volumes are in a range of languages, including English, German, French, Aramaic, Arabic, Greek and Hebrew.

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Coverage: 1894-1922

Series 2 provides an archive of religious and theological literature from 1894 through 1922. Topics include the changing landscape of religion in America, the growing interest in non-Western religions at the turn of the century, church life, missionary activity, social movements, and demographics.

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Coverage: 1556-1922

More than 550 works by authors of African and African American descent, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, novels, essays, poems, and more.

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Contains the non-fiction published works of over 1,000 leading African Americans, including artists, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, entertainers, and more. Resources cover over 250 years of history and include interviews, journal articles, letters, speeches, trial transcripts, and other materials. Includes access to Black Panther, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party. 

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Coverage: 1535-1920

This resource covers the diverse history of the Caribbean Islands over nearly 400 years. Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

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Coverage: 1473-1700

Early English Books Online contains over 140,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement. All titles are full text digital facsimiles from the Early English Books microfilm collection. Highlights of the collection include works by Shakespeare, Malory, Erasmus, Newton, and Galileo.

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Coverage: 1475-1701

Provides access to high-resolution facsimile images of rare printed sources from the origin of printing through the seventeenth century. Early European Books contains significant works by Aristotle, Copernicus, Descartes, Erasmus, Kepler, Luther and Spinoza, alongside ephemeral works such as pamphlets and almanacs. The works encompass all the major fields of human endeavour, including science, medicine, philosophy, theology, literature, history, political science, travel, and exploration.

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Coverage: 1701-1800

Provides access to works from history, geography, various social sciences, fine arts, music, art, architecture, medicine, science, technology, literature, language, religion, philosophy, and law. Resources include books, pamphlets, broadsides, and reference works. Significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the UK, along with important works from the Americas, are included. ECCO is based on The English Short Title Catalog (ESTC).

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Shared digital repository of millions of library books and journals converted from print resources owned by research institutions around the world. HathiTrust Digital Library does not permit downloading or viewing the full text of books that are still under copyright. 

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NOTE: The individual titles in this database are only listed in Discover not the Local Catalog.

Coverage: 16th-20th centuries

Four centuries of history, from early contact to the modern era, are featured in this resource. Coverage includes peoples of North and Central America and materials include manuscripts, illustrations, newspapers, books, photos and maps. This resource is also cross-searchable with the American West database.

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Coverage: 18th-20th centuries

A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.

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Coverage: 1800-1926

From one of the most important periods of legal development, this archive is a comprehensive full text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises. It allows for full text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - all separated into 99 subject areas.

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Contains works pertaining to the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, as well as English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions, such as France. Resources include published trial transcripts, popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, unofficially published trial documents, official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, arbitration sessions, and books and pamphlets about specific trials. Topics include adultery, commercial law, constitutional law, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, military offenses, murder, sexuality, slavery, torts, treason, and wills.

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Coverage: 1450-1850

The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection covers the expansion of world trade, the Industrial Revolution, and the development of modern capitalism. Resources include rare books and primary source materials covering a variety of subjects, including commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

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Access to full text resources covering a variety of topics from the 19th century, including British politics and society, diplomatic and cultural exchange between Asia and the West, British theatre and music, and European literature from the Corvey Collection. Content is drawn from the world's preeminent libraries and archives and includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera.

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NOTE: History Sleuth students: The British Politics and Society unit includes more than 400 documents on the "Jack the Ripper" killings. Scroll down to the "Whitechapel Murders Papers."

Coverage: 1800-1880

A collection of monographs from the Travels in the West and Southwest and Plains & Rockies microfilm collections.

Coverage: 1500-1926

Sabin Americana contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Resources include books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and military actions. 

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Coverage: 1600-2000

This database provides access to historical analysis and documents related to women and social movements in the United States. It also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations and a chronology of U.S. Women's history. Resources include book, film, and website reviews, archival documents, and teaching tools.

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