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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1980-present.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database providing access to scholarly journals articles, newspapers, popular magazines, and reviews. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.

Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary ebook and journal platform to support scholarship and teaching. Provides access to select current subscriptions as well as the archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Terms of Use.

Omnifile Full Text Serves as a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content from six full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full-Text Mega, Social Sciences Full Text, and Business Abstracts with Full Text. Coverage: 1982-present.
Project: MUSE Provides full-text access to current content from over 300 humanities and social sciences journal titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Coverage in many fields of study, including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, politics and policy studies, religion, gender studies, and others.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Includes millions of citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to present around the world with over one million full-text dissertations available to download in PDF format. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1861-present.

Reader's Guide Full Text Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracting of popular general-interest periodicals plus the full text of selected titles. Coverage: 1983-present.
Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 Provides access to more than 3 million articles from 375 leading magazines. Many of the articles are peer-reviewed. Original subject headings are retained, providing a revealing and historically significant look at the way the issues of the day were framed. Coverage: 1890-1982. Restricted to 1 user at a time.
Roper Center Archives (iPoll) A large collection of poll data from U.S. polling firms with broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more.

ACLS Humanities E-book This link opens in a new window Includes over 4,000 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching.

Ancestry Library Edition Delivers billions of census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as photos, directories, and more, from Canada, Europe, Australia and other areas of the world. Users can search by names, birthdates, locations, and more. Coverage: 1521-present.
Archives Unbound Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.
Calisphere Gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,250,000 images, texts, and recordings—and counting.

Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science & Humanities edition This link opens in a new window Includes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines. Useful for tracking emerging ideas and new research in specific fields. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1990-present.
CQ Researcher Plus Archive This link opens in a new window In-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Each issue features a look ahead, a pro-con section that presents opposing viewpoints, a chronology, and annotated bibliographies to point the way to additional research. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1923-present.

Early Modern Resources A research portal for the early modern period (c.1500-1800 CE). It only lists websites that are free to access and focuses on high-quality resources that are suitable for advanced research, study and teaching.
Eyewitness to History Our ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming.
Getty Images leading provider of digital media worldwide, creating and distributing a range of assets – from royalty-free stock photography and editorial images to footage, music and multimedia – that help communicators around the globe tell their stories.

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Covers world history (excluding the United States and Canada), 1450 to present. Encompasses military history, women's history, and more. Indexes 2,300+ academic journals in 40+ languages. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1955-present. Restricted to 6 users at a time.

History Vault About this database: “Manuscript and archival collections digitized in partnership and from a wide variety of archival institutions. We have access to the following collections: • Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Parts1 and 2 • CIA Cold War Research Reports and Records on Communism in China and Eastern Europe (1917-1976) • Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946 Terms of Use. Coverage: 1895-1985.”

Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Offers full text of noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but significant specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1984-present.
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window Documents LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection includes documents ranging from letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, letters and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community. Terms of Use.

Newspaper Ads from 1911 to 1955 This site presents U.S and Canadian consumer culture from 1911 to 1955 through a wide variety of magazine and newspaper ads for products ranging from dental supplies to radio tubes.
Pathfinder for Women's History Research This pathfinder is organized into seven categories: Bibliographies, Reference Works/Biographical Sources, Journals, Collections of Primary Material, Monographs and Anthologies, Archival Research, and Guides to Archives. Monographs and Anthologies is further subdivided thematically.

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals This link opens in a new window A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. Fifty thematic subsets include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals and provide rich coverage of advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1684-1912.
American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new window This unique and valuable collection contains digitized page images from over 1,500 American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1740-1940.

Black Newspapers Historical newspapers that provide first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Coverage includes: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Michigan Chronicle (1936-2010), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002). Coverage: 1893-2010, but varies by individual newspaper.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1955 This digitization project was produced by Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection and funded by the Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership and a lifetime of learning.
California Digital Newspaper Collection This collection contains 340,708 issues comprising 4,262,411 pages and 24,656,677 articles.
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library a cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. CNDL will have on-going newspaper digitization, expanding the geographic, temporal, political and linguistic variety of the newspapers.

Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1988) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1849-1988.
Christian Science Monitor Historical (1908-1998) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1908-1998.

Chronicling America Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
The Friend of Man One of the most significant and little studied newspapers documenting early anti-slavery and other reform movements. The periodical is of special significance because with the exception of religion, scholars know little about the resources of social movements in rural areas such as Central New York, where Friend of Man was published.
Google News Archive Search Search hundreds of scanned newspapers of the world.
Harper's Weekly Online A selection of digitized Harper's Weekly issues from the American Civil War period
Historical Jewish Press This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. We display digital versions of each paper, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout. Full-text search is also available for all content published over the course of each newspaper’s publication.
The Japan Times Online Succeeded Japan Times (1897-1918), Japan Times and Mail (1918-1940), Japan Advertiser (1939-1941), Japan Times and Advertiser (Oct 5-Dec 31, 1942), Nippon Times (1943-1956)
Lantern: Film and Broadcast Media magazines and books The search and visualization platform for nearly 2 million pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
LIFE magazine (1936-1972) Hosted by Google Books, these are scans of the main run of the magazine.

Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1985-present.
Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-1988) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1881-1988.

Newspaper Navigator Explore more than 1.5 million historical newspaper images online and free of charge. The latest machine learning experience from Library of Congress Labs, Newspaper Navigator allows users to search visual content in American newspapers dating 1789-1963.

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers and selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Additional coverage includes full-text television and radio news transcripts provided from such sources as CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR, among others. List of Titles. Terms of Use.
New York Times Historical (1851-2008) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The database may be searched by topic, date, or article type (article, photo, comic, birth/death/marriage notice, display ad, film review, etc.). Terms of Use. Coverage: 1851-2008.
Palmer's Full Text Online This resource has been absorbed into C19: The Nineteenth Century Index as of June 2023. Please visit that link for access. Contains the indexing to The Times from October 1790 to December 1905. The full text component spans the years from 1800 to 1870 and features keyword or phrase searching from Palmer's Index records, listing of relevant index entries, and automated retrieval of column images. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1790-1905.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 3 million articles from 375 leading magazines. Original subject headings are retained, providing a revealing and historically significant look at the way the issues of the day were framed. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1890-1982. Restricted to 1 user at a time.

Service Newspapers of World War Two Over 200 service newspapers that brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas, from key nations across the globe. Trial active through December 25, 2019. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1400-1989.

Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1984-present.
Washington Post Historical (1877-1995) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1877-1995.

YANK Magazine ANK, the Army Weekly, as one former member of the editorial staff put it, was "the authentic voice of the World War II enlisted man." [1] Written by soldiers, for soldiers, YANK provides an almost bottomless well of perspectives from average American servicemen of the Second World War. [2] From its first issue, published on June 17, 1942, more than 21 editions in 17 different countries were printed. [3] Initially YANK was only distributed outside of the United States, although that policy was rescinded by the fifth issue overseas consumption made up the majority of its circulation, by June 1945 three out of every four issues was purchased overseas. Also, since YANK was forbidden to be sold to the public it remained a unique part of the serviceman's life. Each issue of YANK included news from the home front and sports, cartoons like Sgt. George Baker's "The Sad Sack", stories on battles or combat, "Mail Call" where soldiers could write in with their questions and complaints, and a full page pin-up (usually a popular movie starlet).

African American Migration Experience Presents images, texts and maps that explore "thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America" from 1450 to the present.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century A digital collection of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
African-American Mosaic Material for the study of African American history and culture. Examines colonization, abolition, migration and the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
Africans in America Examines "America's journey through slavery" with historical documents. Primary source material is linked under "Resource Bank" in each of the four parts.
Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South A selection of 100 oral history interviews, with transcripts, chronicling African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s. Interviews are browsable by state, interviewee name, gender and occupation.
Black Freedom Struggle Primary sources focused on "six different phases of Black Freedom." Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); and The Contemporary Era (1976-2000).
Brown vs. Board of Education Archive Includes documents and photographs detailing the events surrounding the historic case of Brown v. Board of Education.
Duluth Lynchings Online Resource Scanned documents relating to the 1920 lynchings in Minnesota.
Hip Hop Archive The Hip Hop Archive focuses on the knowledge, art, culture, materials, organizations, movements and institutions developed by those who support and follow Hiphop. Located at W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research.
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project Volumes on the life and work of Marcus Garvey throughout the history of his Pan Africanist movement.
Rosa Parks Papers This collection documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.
Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories Interviews of 23 individuals born into slavery between 1823 and the early 1960s, recorded between 1932 and 1975. Includes transcripts and streaming audio of the recordings.

Area Studies: Japan A wide range of sources, by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others, documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century. Trial active through December 25, 2019. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1400-1989.
Asian Voices Documents relating the Asian American experience from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 This site "illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials...These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California."
DENSHO: The Japanese American Legacy Project Site documents and archives oral histories and photos from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Nonprofit organization has a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate and inspire action for equity.

Foreign Office Files for China, 1938-1948 This link opens in a new window We have access to the files in the "1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese War and the Seeds of Communist Victory" collection. These primary resources include the British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1938 and 1948. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1938-1948.

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Digital Library The Bancroft Library's documentation of the Japanese American experience during World War II includes over 250,000 pages from an extensive collection of manuscripts and photographs. The materials in the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Digital Archive are pulled from our voluminous holdings and reveal the multifaceted experience from this complex time in US history.
Korean American Digital Archive The KADA brings together documents, photographs and sound files that document the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea and reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965.

Meiji Japan Collection: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem This link opens in a new window Unique manuscript material relating to Edward S. Morse (1838-1925), much of which documents life in Japan before its Westernization.Gift of Aquin Mitsuo Yamagishi. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1838-1925.

Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive Documents the history of South Asian immigrants from the Punjab region in north India to California, 1899-present.
South Asian American Digital Archive Documents, preserves, and shares stories that represent the unique and diverse experiences of South Asian Americans.
Southeast Asian Archive The Archive collects materials relating to the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in the U.S., and the culture and history of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. There is a special focus on Southeast Asians in Orange County and California.

Avalon Project: The Cold War A small collection of primary documents.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) A finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords.
China and South Asia "South Asia was one of the most important regions in China's international relations and foreign policy. Drawn largely from the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archives, this collection sheds light on China's relations with India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in particular. In the absence of similar sources from South Asia, these documents, moreover, are also invaluable to the study of South Asia in context of the Cold War."
CIA Historical Collections Declassified Agency documents on various topics in international intelligence, foreign policy, Cold War, etc. (Central Intelligence Agency)
The Cold War: Kennedy Library Materials relating to the Cold War available from the Kennedy Library's Digital Archives.
Cold War Dispatches 1947-1991 - Library of Congress "Though the term “veteran” is often uttered in the same breath as “war,” many of America’s veterans served during times of peace. This includes over 10,000 veterans in the Veterans History Project archive who served during the period known as the Cold War era. While the Cold War may not have involved a formal declaration of war or clearly delineated front lines, it was anything but peaceful. Stretching from the immediate post-World War II years until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War was marked by escalating struggles between the United States and its allies and the Soviet bloc. During this time period, the United States drew on the talents of a willing cadre of men and women who chose to join the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. Motivated not only by love of country and family tradition by also by the opportunities for education and travel offered by the military, these individuals served in a wide variety of non-combat roles. Here, we present stories of the Cold War, told by veterans in their own words. "
Cold War documents This Cold War site contains articles, perspectives and sources on global events and tensions between 1945 and 1991. This site is created by Alpha History and contains 311,904 words in 408 pages.
Cold War History: Collections from the Wilson Center Digital Archive This collection of primary source documents discusses international relations during World War II and the years shortly after. It begins with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed in 1939 and ends with documents from the 1950’s. The collection contains a wide variety of documents including agreements, memorandums, meeting minutes, cables, letters, diary entries, and military reports from WWII. The documents mainly come from Russian and Bulgarian archives.
Cold War on File: The UK National Archives A site for educators, the majority of the sources in this themed collection have been taken from our Cold War web resource with which many users of the Education Website will be familiar. However, we have upgraded the quality of the images, shown more of the original document in some cases and included additional sources from The National Archives exhibition: Britain’s Cold War revealed: Protect and Survive, April-November 2019.
Cold War Studies at Harvard University "The Harvard Project on Cold War Studies promotes archival research in former East-bloc countries and seeks to expand and enrich what is known about Cold War events and themes. " The Links section of the page provides links to a variety of documents and other materials.
Cuban Missile Crisis primary documents NOTE: You must choose a YEAR to see documents one year at a time. Declassified documents (primarily 1960-1963) related to the Cuban Missile Crisis. (National Security Agency, NSA)
Documentation on Early Cold War U.S. Propaganda Activities in the Middle East "The documents collected here describe an earlier program to expand and revitalize American propaganda directed at the Middle East, and the methods that were utilized, including graphic displays, manipulation of the news, books, movies, cartoons, activities directed at schools and universities, and exchange programs. U.S. propaganda efforts were assisted by collaborating governments, the news media, academics, publishers, and private associations." (George Washington Univ.)
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War Primary documents related to the Cold War, spanning pre-1945 to 1991. (Mt. Holyoke College)
End of the Cold War "This is a collection of primary source documents covering the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s. The collection contains documents from archives in most of the former Soviet bloc countries. They discuss the changes occurring in Eastern Europe and the Tiananmen Square events in China." (Wilson Center Digital Archives)
Foreign Relations of the United States 1861-1960 The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office.
Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1980 The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
The Gorbachev File "British and CIA Assessments, Presidential Letters and Summit Conversations Illuminate Perestroika and the End of the Cold War" National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 544
Hansard, 1803-2016, Debates in the British Parliament This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Ideological Foundations of the Cold War Digitized content from the Truman Library. This collection focuses on the ideals that formed the basis of American policy toward the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War. The collection includes 57 documents totaling 681 pages covering the years 1945 through 1952. Supporting materials include photographs, oral history transcripts, biographies and a chronology of events.
Making the History of 1989 Translated primary documents and secondary sources (including video interviews with scholars of Eastern European Studies and case studies of specific events) explore the 1980s eventsthat culminated in the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe in 1989. Represents a variety of perspectives relevant to the final collapse of communist control. (George Mason Univ.)
NARA Archival Databases The National Archives Online access to over 50 million historical records organized in over 350 databases created by federal agencies.
Newspaper Ads from 1911 to 1955 This site presents U.S and Canadian consumer culture from 1911 to 1955 through a wide variety of magazine and newspaper ads for products ranging from dental supplies to radio tubes.
NSC-68 View the once-top-secret National Security Council document of April 1950 that set in motion the massive military buildup of the Cold War.
Nuclear Debate Pamphlets "Pamphlets from both pro- and anti-nuclear organizations published during the 1980 period of rising tensions and the decline of déténte." (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
The Nuclear Vault: Resources from the Nuclear Documentation Project De-classified documents, photos, info, related reading lists, and links related to nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon policies, nuclear crises, and nuclear proliferation (in the U.S. and around the world) from the 1940s through the present. (George Washington Univ.)
Prague Spring Archive "An online portal for the Prague Spring archival materials within Texas ScholarWorks and the LBJ Presidential Library." (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Selected Writings of Albert Wohlstetter, 1951-1970 Albert Wohlstetter became one of the world’s leading nuclear and national security strategists. His studies led to concepts for deterring nuclear war, and reduced the probability of accidental war. (RAND)
Sixties, The: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 Documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s Americavividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next. The aim of this collection is to provide a comprehensive historical view of America from the 1960s through Watergate and the end of 1974 from many perspectives, allowing scholars and students to analyze history and the evolution of society, politics, and culture in the United States during those times. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1960-1974.
U.S. Census publications Here you can find census reports and other publications from the U.S. Census.
Wilson Center Digital Archive: International History Declassified "Contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe" in "the history of international relations and diplomacy," focusing on "the interrelated histories of the Cold War, Korea, and Nuclear Proliferation." (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets This link opens in a new window Pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. The digitization of 23,000 pamphlets comprising 990,000 pages from seven UK institutions provides researchers, students, and teachers with an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1800-1899.
Bibliography of British and Irish History This link opens in a new window Provides 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. In addition, the database includes the contents of the first two Irish History Online projects. Terms of Use. Coverage: 55 BC-present.

Center for Jewish History The Center for Jewish History is the home of five preeminent Jewish institutions dedicated to history, culture and art. It unites under one roof collections that bring together centuries of Jewish life.

Dictionary of Irish Biography Online This link opens in a new window Provides coverage for the lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland. Terms of Use.

Digital Voltaire A collection of correspondence that consists of thirty original autograph letters and four poems authored by Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)[2] and his circle, including leading figures of the Enlightenment such as Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717-1783), Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia (1712-1786, King of Prussia: 1740-1786), and, Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), the acknowledged mistress of Louis XV (1710-1774, King of France: 1715-1774[3]).
Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland EPPI contains a complete set of British Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland and Irish affairs published during the period of the Act of Union (1801-1922).
Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust Studies The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies were produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel.
Hansard, 1803-2016, Debates in the British Parliament This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies A variety of online primary and secondary sources organized by subject.
Locating London This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window Streaming video of over 53,000 primary source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity, including the Nanjing Massacre and the Guatemalan, Armenian, and Tutsi genocides. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1915-present.

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive: Mexican Americans Primary documents that tell the story of ethnic groups along the Columbia River Basin (encompassing areas of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and and British Columbia).
Digital Public Library of America: Hispanics Includes images, texts, and video clips.
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Latina(o) Cultural Archives Photographs and documents that capture the history of Latino and Chicana/o people and culture in Southern California. These collections feature the arts, labor, and immigration

ACT UP Oral History Project Collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.
Bay Area Reporter The nation's oldest LGBT news weekly newspaper, serving San Francisco's LGBT community. Online archive back to 2005.
Census & LGBT Demographic Studies
Digital Public Library of America: LGBT Texts and images related to LGBT issues.
Digital Transgender Archive Designed to increase the accessibility of transgender history, DTA is a hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
The Empty Closet One of the oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the United States. Full text of issues from 1971- .
Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance GLAA is a "political organization that defends the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the Nation's Capital." This website provides access to the organization's documents from 1953- .
GLBT Historical Society All issues of the Bay Area Reporter (1971-2005) and other LGBTQ+ material.
Homosexuality in Eighteenth Century England A large collection of primary sources, dating from 1624 to 1815.
Lesbian Herstory Archives A selection of audio, video, and photographs from the "world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities."
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives A selection of items from "the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world." Includes photos, letters, periodicals, sound recordings, and more.
OutHistory Texts, oral histories, and visual material documenting the queer past.
Speaking Out: LGBT Veterans Interviews and photos that tell the stories of LGBT veterans who served from the WWII era to the present.
Southern Voice Newspaper Collection Alternative news source for lesbians and gay men in the greater Atlanta area and Southeast. 1988-1995.

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook Texts that document Islamic history. Topics include Islamic expansion and empire; the Ottomans; expansion to India, China and the East Indies; the western intrusion; and others.
Islamic Heritage Project A digital collection of manuscripts, maps and printed texts from Harvard’s library and museum collections. IHP materials date from the 13th to the 20th centuries CE and represent many regions, languages and subjects.
Israel's Foreign Policy: Historical Documents Published by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these are documents (official statements, press conferences, interview, letters, etc.) relating to Israel's foreign relations from 1947-2004.
Middle East: 1916-2001 Government documents, transcripts of speeches by government leaders and UN resolutions. Arranged by year.
Saddam Hussein Sourcebook: Declassified Secrets from the U.S.-Iraq Relationship Brings together five briefing books previously published by the National Security Archive into one searchable file of primary sources. These include "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction," "Eyes on Saddam," "Alleged Iraqi War Criminals in 1992," "Operation Desert Storm," and "Shaking Hands with Saddam: U.S. Policy before the Gulf War."
Travelers in the Middle East A digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
World Digital Library: Middle East & North Africa Collection of print and visual resources. Use limiters in left column to focus search on specific geography, date range, topic or type of resource.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection Digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures.
Documents Relating to Native American Affairs The collection currently includes "Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties With Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869" and the "Office of Indian Affairs, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs." Includes instructions to treaty commissioners, reports, letters, and in some cases copies of the treaties.
Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History "Provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living."
First Nations Collection The First Nations Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of this bioregion.
Indigenous Digital Archive Explores the history of US government Indian boarding schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes archival documents about Santa Fe Indian School, boarding school records, and letters.
Native American Documents Project Texts of documents, mostly from the 19th century, about the history of federal policy concerning native peoples.
Southeastern Native American Documents Contains approximately 2000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.

Adams Papers Digital Edition, The This link opens in a new window The definitive record of the nation's first great political family, including John Adams complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers. Terms of Use.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window An index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1964-present. Restricted to 6 users at a time.

The American Founders Online The digital resources described in this guide provide online access, in varying degrees, to the personal papers and/or publications of the major founders of the American Republic—that is, those men who served in roles of national political leadership between 1765 and 1815—and members of their families. In some cases, official compilations of government documents are also included because of the prominence of a particular founder in the recorded activities of the governing body in question.

American Founding Era Collection This link opens in a new window Cross-search digital collections from the University of Virginia Press, including the Adams Papers Digital Edition, the Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, and the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition. Terms of Use.

American Journeys American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record Approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) A finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords.
Discovering American Women's History Online Provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.
Documenting the American South A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Dolley Madison Digital Edition This link opens in a new window The first-ever complete edition of all of First Lady Dolley Madison's known correspondence. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1788-1843.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window An index of European works that relate to the Americas and a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 containing more than 32,000 entries. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1493-1750.

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 96 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches.
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia Digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers.
The Green Book This is a collection of scanned Green Books from 1923 to 1967. The Green Book was a travelers guide written by and for Black Americans. It provided a listing of eateries and lodging that was known to be friendly to the Black community and so was considered safe.

Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window Serves as a standard source for the quantitative facts of American history and provides access to data in the social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences, including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade. Terms of Use.

Making of America Making of America (MOA) represented a major collaborative endeavor to preserve and make accessible through digital technology a significant body of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure.
NARA Archival Databases The National Archives Online access to over 50 million historical records organized in over 350 databases created by federal agencies.
North American Slave Narratives books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920.

Sixties, The: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 This link opens in a new window Documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s Americavividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next. The aim of this collection is to provide a comprehensive historical view of America from the 1960s through Watergate and the end of 1974 from many perspectives, allowing scholars and students to analyze history and the evolution of society, politics, and culture in the United States during those times. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1960-1974.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window Brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Also provided are more than a thousand pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th century and many modern histories of slavery. Terms of Use.
Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition, The This link opens in a new window The letters, diaries, and other documents of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (17221793) and her daughter Harriott Pinckney Horry (17481830) document the lives of two observant and articulate founding-era women who were members of one of South Carolinas leading families and provide a window on politics, social events, and people of the late colonial and early national periods. Included along with their personal letters are their legal and financial correspondence, travel journals, and recipe books. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1739-1830.
Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, The This link opens in a new window Encompasses five separate series of documents and correspondence, as well as the complete diaries of George Washington. Terms of Use.
Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition, The This link opens in a new window Brings together all 33 volumes of Thomas Jefferson's writings into one searchable resource. Terms of Use.

Religion in the Civil War Civil War Sermons and Other Writings of Northern Protestant Ministers Facsimile editions from the site Making of America, a vast digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American history
U.S. Census publications Here you can find census reports and other publications from the U.S. Census.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Historical Collections Web page covering the collections held by the NLM.
The Valley of the Shadow Tells the story of two communities, Augusta County in Virginia and Franklin County in Pennsylvania from 1859 to 1870 through primary documents.
VOCES Oral History Project Voces Oral History Center is the leading Latino oral history archive in the United States.
Voices from the Days of Slavery Almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement.

442nd Regimental Combat Team Legacy Website dedicated to the Japanese-American soldiers who served in the 442 RCT during World War II.
1914-1918 Online: International encyclopedia of the First World War This is an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War. The multi-perspective, open-access knowledge base is the result of an international collaborative project involving more than 1,000 authors, editors, and partners from over fifty countries. More than 1,000 articles will be gradually published.

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window More than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home. The writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seaman, wives, and even spies are included. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. The materials originate from all regions of the country and are from people who played a variety of roles. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1855-1959.

The American Soldier in WWII During World War II, the US Army administered more than 200 surveys to over half a million American troops to discover what they thought and how they felt about the conflict and their military service. The surviving collection of studies is now accessible to the public for the first time at The American Soldier in World War II. Browse and search over 65,000 pages of uncensored, open-ended responses handwritten by servicemembers, view and download survey data and original analyses, read topical essays by leading historians, and access additional learning resources.
Bibliography of the Iraq War Professor Edwin Moïse's bibliography on the Iraq War.
Bibliography of the Vietnam War Professor Edwin Moïse's indispensable source for all works relating to the Vietnam War.
Bombing Britain This is an interactive map that covers the German air raids on the British Islands during WWII. Each pin represents the location of one of over 32,000 attacks that occurred in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands between 1939 and 1945. Click on a pin to find out more information on each attack. The information in each pin is based on original Ministry of Home Security intelligence reports, collated twice a day from regional reports received from all twelve civil defense regions throughout the war.

First World War: Personal Experiences This link opens in a new window A collection of primary source documents drawn from archives across the globe. The documents are varied in scope and offer a remarkable window on the lives and experiences of men and women during the First World War. Terms of Use.

Foreign Relations of the United States 1861-1960 The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office.
Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1980 The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
Historical Films of the U.S. Army Signal Corps More than 400 reels of film from Record Group 111 (Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer), Series H (Historical Films) have been digitized in their entirety to view in the National Archives Catalog.
Library of Congress Digital Collections- War Digital holdings related to War and the Military from the largest library in the world.
Miller Center for Public Affairs Oral Histories One of the main repositories for interviews with political figures of the Vietnam War era.
NARA Military Records What military records does NARA have? This is the homepage to start your search.
NARA Online Veterans and Military Records NARA resource. While most of their holdings are not online, a variety of military records, from photos to documents to searchable databases are available.
New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center This website has a comprehensive search engine that will allow you to search their library databases of published materials, photographs, archival collections, sheet music, as well as our oral history database. A separate database will let you search our roster database of nearly 500,000 names.
OSS Records Office of Strategic Services (OSS) the WWII predecessor to the CIA.
PFC Benjamin Kaplow's correspondence A digitized collection of United States Army Private First Class Benjamin Kaplow.
Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II The Rutgers Oral History Archives records the personal narratives of: ~ Men and women (either New Jersey residents and/or Rutgers University alumni, faculty or staff) who served on the home front and overseas during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the nation's most recent conflicts ~ People with a story to tell about some aspect of New Jersey's proud history, its towns and cities, its diverse populations, organizations within the Garden State and/or social/cultural movements and events ~ Men and women who helped shape the history of Rutgers University as students, alumni, faculty, staff and in other roles
Univ. of Tennessee Center for the Study of War and Society The Center for the Study of War and Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of the relationship between war and society.
United States Military Unit Histories A collection of links for various unit histories and other resources that might be helpful
U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center Library Libguide listing finding aids, bibliographies and books held by this repository.
U.S. Army Center of Military History The Center Of Military History (CMH), which reports to the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the United States Army. Traditionally, this mission has meant recording the official history of the Army in both peace and war, while advising the Army Staff on historical matters.

USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window Streaming video of over 53,000 primary source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity, including the Nanjing Massacre and the Guatemalan, Armenian, and Tutsi genocides. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1915-present.

Veterans History Project The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.
The Vietnam Center and Archive Hosted by Texas Tech University.
War of 1812--Library and Archives Canada This research tool provides access to over 45,000 references to names of people appearing in War of 1812 records held at Library and Archives Canada (LAC).

War Memoirs located in the Southern California A list of war-related memoirs in our library and other libraries throughout Southern California.

Archives of Women's Political Communication Speeches and political ads for more than 300 women candidates that are easily accessible through the online archives. All include a transcript of the text and many also feature video.
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling This full-length book contains documents illustrating the cultural, political, and legal forces that helped shape the Supreme Court’s landmark decision that legalized abortion.
College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education A collection of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and photographs from the archives the Seven Sisters colleges.
Digital Public Library of America: Women Includes images, texts, and sound/video clips.
Discovering American Women's History Online This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement This site documents various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, focusing specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
Emma Goldman Papers Documents, images and selected writings of an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization.
Feminist Chronicles This site chronicles the progression of the U.S. feminist movement from 1953-1993. Part III includes links to primary source documents.
Library of Congress Digital Collections: Women's History Collections of women's history documents, from the Library of Congress.
Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 Online audio collection devoted to women’s history. These recordings include interviews, panel discussions, literary and musical performances, news coverage, and other programing broadcast between the mid-1950s and the 1980s. Currently includes 26 files, with more to come. Requires RealAudio.