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- 19th Century Stage This link opens in a new windowThe Nineteenth Century Stage brings together primary source material from archival collections in the UK, USA and Australia to reveal the shifting and expanding theatre world of the nineteenth century. Featuring material such as prompt books, programmes, company records, photographs and playbills, users can explore the multi-faceted nature of the nineteenth-century theatre industry, the lives and careers of well-known actors and actresses and the production, performance and reception of popular plays of the time.
- African Newspapers, Series 2 This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1835-1925
More than 50 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. - Al-Ba’ath Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1949 - 1997
Al-Ba’ath was founded in 1948 as an organ of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. Functioning initially as an opposition newspaper to the Nasserist government, Al-Ba’ath became the government organ of Syria following the Ba’athist coup in 1963. Al-Ba’ath shows the viewpoint of the Ba’ath Party through opinion columns and news coverage, while also including coverage of popular culture—including sports and music. - Al Madina Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1959 - 2001
Al Madina is one of the oldest newspapers published in Saudi Arabia. Founded in 1937 in Jeddah, Al Madina is best known for covering national politics from a pro-government perspective, while providing more critical coverage of non-political news, including on topics like education and health. - American National Biography Online This link opens in a new windowAccess is limited to 3 users
Discover biographies of more than 19,000 men and women - from all eras and walks of life - whose lives have shaped American history and culture. - Applied Environmental Science This link opens in a new windowPart of Applied Science Commons, Applied Environmental Science focuses at the intersection of technology and environmental science, showcasing advancements in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and remote sensing for ecological monitoring and resource optimization.
- Asian Life in America This link opens in a new windowThe database includes comprehensive coverage of the Asian American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. There are more than 35 million primary documents from diverse sources and perspectives, both historical and contemporary. Includes a fully searchable online resource, updated daily.
- BBC Monitoring, Series 1-4 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1939-2001
This database contains digitized BBC Monitoring's Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB). More than 70,000 multi-page SWB reports are available.
- Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new windowBorder and Migration Studies Online helps students and researchers understand today’s world through primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera related to significant border areas and events from the 19th to 21st centuries.
- Canadian History and Culture This link opens in a new windowCanadian history told through previously undigitized primary sources from McLaren Micropublishing and other newly digitized original content.
- China on Film This link opens in a new windowChina on Film features an exciting selection of documentary and actuality film footage from the British Film Institute, filmed through the eyes of predominantly Western travelers. Through a combination of amateur films, travelogues and newsreels, this resource provides a unique perspective on both everyday life and some of the key events of modern Chinese history.
- Choya Shinbun This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1875 - 1889
Choya Shinbun was a major Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo during the early and mid-Meiji periods. Best known for its support of the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, Choya Shinbun shaped public opinion during a political era that saw the establishment of the Meiji Constitution and the Imperial Diet. - Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new window
Colonial State Papers were created with The National Archives. Digitized primary source documents from the early history of England's governance of the Americas.
- Complete Otzar HaHochma This link opens in a new window
Access is limited to 2 users
Otzar HaHochma is the world's largest digital library, containing more than 138,000 Judaic books, scanned page after page in their original format. Includes the Chabad library. - Computer Science, Data, and AI This link opens in a new windowPart of Applied Science Commons, Computer Science, Data, and AI tracks and preserves critical reports, white and technical papers, podcasts, blogs, videos, and other content types—providing researchers with the information they need to understand the latest advancements and applications in these fields.
- Declassified Documents: Twentieth Century British Intelligence This link opens in a new windowDeclassified Documents: Twentieth Century British Intelligence allows researchers to explore the role of signals intelligence, human agents, diplomats, politicians and the armed forces in the gathering of intelligence from across this empire and beyond, and to explore the impact this had on crucial events and decisions throughout a turbulent century.
Part I: An Intelligence Empire
Part II: Monitoring the World - Dewey Data This link opens in a new windowYou must register for a Dewey account using your UVA email address and authenticate with NetBadge.
Dewey Data is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including healthcare, management, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation. - Die Transvaler This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1938 - 1987
Die Transvaler (named after Transvaal province, once part of the Boer republics) was established in 1937 as a newspaper that would promote the cause of Afrikaner nationalism within the Afrikaner-dominated National Party. - Disabilities in Society, 17th to 20th Century This link opens in a new windowHistory of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century provides historical evidence demonstrating how society has interacted with and regarded individuals considered to have disabilities.
- Eastern European Newspapers This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1841-1927
Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from Eastern Europe, including Poland, Hungary, and Romania. - El Imparcial This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1918 - 1972
El Imparcial was a conservative, pro-independence tabloid published in San Juan, Puerto Rico starting in 1918. During the first half of the 20th century, it was the most widely read publication in Puerto Rico. El Imparcial is perhaps best known for its reportage on political corruption in Puerto Rico in the 1940s, and for its unique coverage of the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959). - Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 This link opens in a new window
This collection provides authoritative documentation of camps, ghettos, and other persecutory sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies in a vast network that extended across the European continent and reached as far as the Soviet Union and North Africa. The series comprises 7 volumes that document approximately 6,000 sites in narrative format.
- Ethnicity & Culture Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowThe backfiles of more than thirty 20th and 21st-century magazines, each aimed at ethnically specific audiences. Titles range from political publications to those concerned with lifestyle, fashion / beauty, culture, and identity. The collection reflects diverse voices and gives insight into cultural perspectives, societal shifts, and historical events. Titles are presented in color page-image format with article-level metadata and searchable text.
- Foreign Office, Consulate and Legation Files, China: 1830-1939 This link opens in a new windowThis multi-part resource will contain a century’s worth of correspondence from the British legation and consulates in the cities of imperial and republican China, documenting Sino-British relations and myriad aspects of Chinese history from 1830 to 1939. Themes explored in the sources include politics, diplomacy, international relations, trade and the economy, military conflict, public health, missionaries, migration, war and revolution.
- Gale Digital Scholar Lab This link opens in a new windowIn order to use the Gale Digital Scholar Lab tool you need to create an account so that you can save sets of content and the analyses that will be run on those content sets. The Lab is a single research platform where you can apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from your institution's Gale Primary Sources holdings, or from uploaded OCR. Gale Digital Scholar Lab is organized in three broad steps: Build, Clean, and Analyze.
- Global History of Epidemics, 1800-1970 This link opens in a new windowThis database explores developments in disease prevention, outbreak management, sanitation and public welfare, as well as the spread and treatment of major epidemics and pandemics across the globe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Information sourced from correspondence, official reports, diagrams, photographs, and film footage.
- Indigenous Life in America Series This link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage of the Indigenous experience in America from 1690 to today with more than 16 million primary documents from diverse sources and perspectives. Includes a fully searchable online resource, updated daily.
- Indigenous Peoples Social Justice and Culture This link opens in a new windowPart of History Commons, this module preserves the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Indigenous communities around the world, through original voices. Included are blogs, magazines, videos, podcasts, tweets, newspapers, and other content from more than 1,000 organizations.
- Latin American History and Culture This link opens in a new windowPart of Latin America Commons, Latin American History and Culture brings unified, cross-searchable access to millions of pages from websites and archives scattered across the internet—books, magazines, photographs, maps, letters, diaries, ephemera, videos, and audio files.
- Latino Social and Political Culture and History This link opens in a new windowPart of Gale Primary Sources, Latino Social and Political Culture and History: Perspectives on the Chicano Movement highlights the Chicano/a experience in the United States and a rich history and diversity of the community. The archive focuses on activists such as César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, and other leaders of the Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento. It also highlights important organizations and movements, such as the United Farm Workers, efforts toward land reclamation, and student movements against discrimination in education.
- LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture This link opens in a new windowPart of History Commons, LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture captures and preserves activist voices from the 1980s to today, with a special focus on content at risk of disappearing, especially in oppressive countries.
- Market Atlas This link opens in a new windowMarket Atlas provides tools for both interactive online research and easy predefined report access. These tools and reports are reflected across multiple product modules including Company, Sustainability, Industry, Country, and Economic analysis.
The Market Atlas database of corporate information covering over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading. - Michigan Chronicle This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1939-2010
The Michigan Chronicle is an influential African American newspaper that documents the Black experience in America. The weekly African American newspaper is based in Detroit, Michigan and the content includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more. - New Yorker This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1925 - present
The entire run of the New Yorker, in full text and full color. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting on national and international politics and culture, profiles of people, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism of books, movies, theatre, classical and popular music, television, art, and fashion.
- New York Tribune / Herald Tribune This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1841-1962
Originally called the New-York Daily Tribune, it was the dominant Whig Party and Republican newspaper in the U.S. through the 1860s.
- Noticias Gráficas This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1943 - 1949
Noticias Gráficas was a groundbreaking Argentine newspaper published in Buenos Aires during the first half of the 20th century. Known for its innovative double-page illustrated center spread and high-quality journalism, it was one of Argentina's most prominent evening papers. - Nowy Dziennik This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1971 - 2022
Nowy Dziennik (The New Daily) is the largest independent Polish-language newspaper in the United States, serving as a key source of information for the Polish émigré community. Its opinion-forming reporting covers current social, political, sports, cultural, and religious events. - Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new windowAccess to all encyclopedias
Oxford Research Encyclopedias provides access to thousands of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries of the scholarly literature by world-class experts across a broad range of disciplines. New articles are added monthly and existing reviews are regularly updated to reflect changes in scholarship. - Palestine: The British Mandate This link opens in a new window
This collection offers a comprehensive range of primary sources on the history of Mandatory Palestine. It gives access to the principal memoranda, statements and reports published during the time of the British Mandate, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the end of the Mandate in 1948.
- Palestine: The Legal Background This link opens in a new windowThis collection offers source materials on the legal position of the Israeli-Occupied Territories until 1984, including military orders and regulations issued by the Israeli Government.
- Refugees, Migration and Borders Social Justice and Culture This link opens in a new windowRefugees, Migration, and Borders Social Justice and Culture delivers access to the stories and facts that will expand scholarship, support advocacy efforts, and inform global conversations. Includes information as they were originally told, drawing on podcasts, blogs, digital magazines, and interviews.
- Sezgin Online II: The Frankfurt Volumes This link opens in a new window
Sezgin Online II consists of volumes 10-17 of Fuat Sezgin's renowned Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest and most modern bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular.
- V Novom Svete This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1995 -2022
Founded in 1995 in New York City, V Novom Svete (В Новом Свете, In the New World) was the most popular weekly newspaper among the fourth wave of immigrants from the former USSR, which began in the late 1980s. - West African Magazines This link opens in a new windowPart of South Africa Commons, this database includes rare, historically significant magazines from West Africa, digitized for the first time.
New Databases from Gale: Archives Unbound
- African American Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
Access unique primary source collections dedicated to African American Studies. This is an interdisciplinary academic collection of primary source archives devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans, covering the tumultuous period from 1900 to present day. Researchers can explore a breadth of experiences ranging from U.S. nation-building in Liberia to Freedom Riders, the Rastafari movement, and FBI surveillance.
- African Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
Access unique primary source collections dedicated to African Studies. Covering a critical period of colonialism (1910-1940), this collection of archives brings together primary source materials that enlighten the study of politics, culture, and history. It provides particular insight into German, Italian, British, Portuguese, and American influences as the world advanced toward World War II.
- American Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
Supporting a deep dive into American culture, primary source materials in these archives help researchers explore music, art, literature, and cinema from all regions of the country in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Asian Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
With extensive coverage of Japan, China, and Korea from 1910 to 1950, this collection of primary source archives supports the study of colonialism, politics, nationalism, military actions, government systems, economics, and even geography of Asia during a critical period of engagement with the Western nations.
- British and European History Collections This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events in the United Kingdom and Europe. Included are U.S. classified country reports, newspapers, pamphlets, propaganda, and many other primary sources that give insight on specific regional changes during and after the war.
- Business and Economic History Collections This link opens in a new window
Covering topics such as commerce and trade, finance and economy, industrial history, and organized labor, these primary source archive collections feature business history around the world. Whether it is commercial relations between Japan and the United States, labor equality in household work, Black economic empowerment, or the economy of the Third Reich, students and researchers will find a wealth of information.
- Cultural Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
These collections feature perspectives on culture from Shakespeare to German folklore; moving pictures and the silent cinema to investigations of Communists in Hollywood; society, culture, and politics in Canada to literature, culture, and society in Depression Era America; plus a library of books on etiquette and advice to provide some guidance to our social interactions.
- Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events related to gender and sexuality. Queer history and the Men’s Movement offer interesting perspectives on the struggle for equality and social justice. The social, political, and cultural contributions of women throughout history are on display in international women's periodicals dating from 1786 to the Women’s and Civil Rights movements.
- Health and Environmental Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
These primary source archive collections help us learn how the environment and our health are closely related, as well as critical issues to our society. Researchers can find documentation about international reaction to global warming and climate change, the development of environmental health policy, the war on drugs, and a clinical view of narcotic addiction and mental health issues.
- Holocaust Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events related the Holocaust. Deep and broad in its coverage, this collection incorporates anti-Semitic propaganda, correspondence from prisoners, documents from resistance groups, bank records from Nazi financiers, eyewitness accounts from concentration camps, and much more.
- International Relations Collections This link opens in a new window
Diplomatic history, global foreign affairs, activists and activism, war and conflict, and colonialism are just some of the topics featured in these primary source archive collections. Researchers can study the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, global trade and commerce, European Colonialism in the early twentieth century, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the origins of the Cold War, among other topics.
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
From Mafia activities in Cuba to the Mexican Revolution, and from political instability in Latin America to foreign relations in Caribbean states, this collection of primary source archives provides a broad variety of resources for the study of the varied, rich culture and history of Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Law, Politics, and Radical Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
The political and legal history of the United States is highlighted in the papers of politicians and the organizations that supported them, and documentation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department. These primary source archive collections also feature materials about world communism and the evolution of the American militia movement.
- Middle Eastern Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
Frequently studied and often misunderstood, the Middle East features a varied history and culture for in depth study. This collection of primary source archives provides a multidisciplinary archive of materials to explore the region's diplomatic initiatives, military actions, politics, economics, and natural resources.
- Native American Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary source archives includes political, religious, legal, medical, commercial, and military perspectives of Native American history. Users are provided a diverse collection of primary source materials dating from 1800 through the late 20th century.
- Religious Studies Collections This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events related to religious studies. The activities and effects of Christian evangelism around the world, the development of witchcraft as a religion, the growth of social activism in the US, and more may be explored extensively in this broad collection of records, reports, and texts from religious organizations.