History Librarian
Digitized Primary Source Collections
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowProvides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
US Sources
UK Sources
- British Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIncludes facsimile page images and full text for a broad range of British periodicals published between the 17th and the 20th century.
- Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 This link opens in a new windowDigital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices..
- Confidential Print: Middle East This link opens in a new windowDigital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices.
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new windowIncludes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
- Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism This link opens in a new windowCollection of primary sources on the history of tourism from 1850-1980.
News Sources
- FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports This link opens in a new windowProvides CIA translations of newswires and broadcast services from around the world in full-text from 1941-1996.
- Factiva This link opens in a new windowOffers company and industry financial data and news stories, as well as full text articles in 6,000 trade publications, newspapers, newswires and magazines.
- Access World News [NewsBank] This link opens in a new windowFull text of 600+ U.S. newspapers and 260+ English-language newspapers from other countries worldwide.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowCustom ProQuest cross-search of full-text backfiles of 30 U.S. and 32 international English-language newspapers.
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowOnline backfile of The Times newspaper of London, England, covering 1785 to 2019.
- Hemeroteca DigitalCollection of digitized Spanish newspapers and periodicals of all types: political, satirical, technical, literary, sports, religious, published between 1683 and 2020.
- Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa HistóricaDigitized historical newspapers and cultural magazines from all Spanish regions and regional languages, published between 1777 and 2018.
- Wikipedia: Online Newspaper ArchviesFree and paid newspaper archives from around the world.
European Sources (may not be in English)
- Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new windowDatabase that helps students and researchers understand today’s world through primary source documents, archives, film and ephemera.
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowOver 60,000 images of original manuscripts related to Empire Studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
- EuropeanaMaterials digitized from collections across Europe.
- GallicaDigital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Search among early printed books, newspapers, periodicals, images, maps, and more.
- Gallica: African CollectionsMaterials in French
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowSearchable access to over 17 million volumes--including over 8.3 million books, over 1.2 million government documents, and over 450,000 serial publications--with full text access to 9 million+ volumes.
- Italian Women Writers (IWW)Extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Produced by the University of Chicago Library, IWW includes authors from the 13th century to authors born in 1945.
- Liber Liber (Progetto Manuzio)Among all, the most extensive full-text e-library for Italian literature (out of copyright). It is also accessible by visually impaired people.
- Making of the Modern World,1450-1914 This link opens in a new windowDigital and searchable editions of more than 70,000 titles, published between 1450 and 1945.
- Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 7,000 arts, humanities & social science journals, from their first issues through 2000.
- PARES: Portal de Archivos EspañolesPortal that provides access to digitized documents from a variety of Spanish archives. Includes projects such as: Portal de víctimas de guerra civil, Catálogo de mapas, planos y dibujos en los archivos estatales and Guerra de la independencia.
Scholarly Articles
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
- Index Islamicus (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
- IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature) This link opens in a new window
- PASCAL and FRANCIS This link opens in a new window