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North American Collections

  • african american newspapers

    Original source material that records the African American experience in the 1800s—written by African Americans for African Americans. Bibliography

  • african american newspapers in the south

    Documenting the African American experience in the segregated South from Reconstruction to the Jazz Age. Bibliography

  • american inventor

    The history of American invention in relation to technological, social, economic, and cultural change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Full run of 120 magazines from 1879-1887.

  • american county histories

    Vivid portraits of people, places, and events—thousands of volumes detailing demographics, social and economic changes, and cultural transformations. Bibliography

  • civil war collection

    Newspapers articles, personal accounts, and regimental histories. Bibliography

  • colonial newspapers

    The ideal research tool for understanding issues, events, and individuals in the lives of American colonists. Bibliography

  • frank leslie's weekly

    Visuals of current events—in print for the first time—gave readers a new kind of immersive experience. 3,458 publications spanning 70+ years.

  • women's magazines and newspapers

    A growing, award-winning collection of the most historically important women’s publications. Bibliography

  • Coverage of America's involvement in the first World War through the publications created for soldiers. Bibliography

  • Canadian history told through previously undigitized primary sources from McLaren Micropublishing and other newly digitized original content. More information

European Collections

  • secret files from world wars to cold wars

    Exclusive, previously unseen content from The National Archives, available electronically for the first time. British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files, with a focus on WWII and the Cold War. Bibliography

  • cold war eastern europe

    Declassified files looking at life behind the Iron Curtain in every country in the Eastern Bloc during the post-Stalin era. Bibliography

  • british society, 1939-1951

    Documenting a society in its time of greatest stress. Sourced from The National Archives (UK) and the History of Advertising Trust. Bibliography

  • weimar and nazi germany

    The only digital English-language, primary-source archive covering Germany between the world wars. Bibliography

Global Collections

  • lgbtq+ social justice and culture

    Preserving hundreds of thousands of items, mainstream and ephemeral, that document the history of social change. Bibliography

  • african history and culture

    More than 600,000 digital artifacts, curated from 4,300 collections worldwide, made discoverable in a single search that links users back to the original sites. Learn more

  • south asian history and culture

    A comprehensive, full-text repository provides centralized access to millions of pages of high-quality South Asian primary source materials previously scattered across the internet. Bibliography

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