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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.
- 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.
- 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. - Complete Otzar HaHochma This link opens in a new window
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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. - 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.
- 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). - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
