Comparative and Historical Sociology
Resources for sociology researchers using comparative and historical methods
Searching Social Media
Try the following resources for searching blogs, Twitter, and other social media:
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Social Media Research GuideGuide to sources of social media data including Twitter, Facebook and others as well as resources on research methods and using social media data ethically in scholarship
Selected Full-text, Archival Databases
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Browse a listBrowse a list of the library's subscriptions to digitized text collections.
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Selected text collections:
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Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969Digital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices.
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Empire OnlineOver 60,000 images of original manscripts related to Empire Studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
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Making of the Modern WorldDigital and searchable editions of more than 62,000 titles that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth.
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Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)Contains themed collections of over 80,000 declassified and FOIA'd documents that led to U.S. policy decisions.
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World Scholar: Latin America and the CaribbeanContains over 1.3 million pages of primary source material from archives in the United States and Europe. The historical collections include original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, and more.
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Last Updated: Nov 10, 2025 2:18 PM
Subjects: Social Sciences