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.
Colonial State Papers were created with The National Archives. Digitized primary source documents from the early history of England's governance of the Americas.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.