A selection of primary resources including the Godey's Lady's Book, African-American newspapers such as Freedom's Journal, and the Pennsylvania Gazette, an 18th-century newspaper. Coverage years vary by each resource.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
A digitized collection of virtually all materials (books, pamphlets, broadsides, sermons, etc.) published in 17th and 18th century America. A primary source collection for all aspects of American life during this time period. Use keywords common to the time period.
A digitized collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in early 19th-century America. A primary source collection for all aspects of American life during this time period.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) is a digital collection of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digitized collection of all English- and foreign-language titles printed in the U.K., plus thousands printed in the Americas. Includes many types of materials: books, broadsides, ephemera, etc. Covers 1701-1800.
Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody was founded in 1924 by Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News and Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The magazine flourished when illustrated magazines were the leading form of mass entertainment. Liberty charted the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle America through three of its most significant decades.
The Making of the Modern World covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation. It also covers the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century.
Focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century from around the world. Topics include: diplomacy and politics, literature, theater, music, photography, science, and technology.
The State Department Diplomatic Post Records consist of correspondence and reports from American diplomats stationed around the world. Diplomatic post records are those kept at the embassies or legations rather than those kept in Washington. Diplomatic post records contain the incoming messages from Washington, retained copies of outgoing dispatches, locally gathered information, and background material on decision making. The following countries or cities are represented in this module: Japan; Cuba; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Iran; Iraq; Beirut; Jerusalem; Aden; Lebanon; Russia and the Soviet Union.