Primary Sources

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level.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. Further explore African American, American, Asian, Latin American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern Studies; British and European History; Business and Economic History; Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Health and Environmental Sciences; International Relations; and Law, Politics, and Radical Studies. Collections are chosen based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.

This resource offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th century to the early 21st century. All content is available in full-page image with searchable full-text. Subject coverage includes The Periodical Press, Victorian periodicals, popular culture, literary journalism and criticism, politics, political science, and political satire, serial fiction and serialized novels, slavery and anti-slavery movements, temperance, religion and theology, book reviews, science, economics, sports, theatre/theater and drama, English, Scottish, and Irish literature, women's literature, and more. Major titles include All the Year Round, The Edinburgh Review, Gentleman’s Magazine, Quarterly Review, and The Tatler.

This full-text database includes nearly every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from the beginning of printing in England (1473) through 1700. Search for e-books and e-texts by author, title, keyword, or illustrations. From the first book printed in English through to the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War, EEBO's content draws on authoritative and respected short-title catalogues of the period and features a substantial number of text transcriptions specially created for the product. Subject coverage includes English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, religion, politics, and government. The four collections in EEBO are: 1. Early English Books I, 1473-1640, containing great classics such as Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Shakespeare dramas; 2. Early English Books II, 1641-1700, spanning the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration, and includes books by Newton, Boyle, and Galileo; 3. Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661, featuring speeches made in Parliament, gossip from or about the court, sermons and political diatribes, and news reports detailing accounts of battles, negotiations, and political machinations; and 4. Early English Books Tract Supplement, consisting of proclamations, letters, petitions, ballads, Church of England pamphlets and sermons, almanacs, auction catalogs, and so much more.

This database provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.

This multilingual collection of primary sources 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 is also strong in 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. In addition, the archive offers resources on the role of finance and taxation and the growth of the early modern monarchy. It features essential texts covering the function of financial institutions, the crisis of the French monarchy and the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, and the connection between the democratic goals of revolutionaries and their legal aspirations. The collection is broken into three parts which can be searched together or individually. Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850; Part II: 1851-1914; Part III: 1890-1945.

Historical women's periodicals provide an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for women's rights—woman suffrage, fair pay, better working conditions, for example—grew in the United States and England. This Archives Unbound collection provides access to the full text of some of the most significant and least-widely held women's periodicals produced from the late Eighteenth century through the early 1930s. 57 periodicals are included in this publication, printed between 1786 and 1984.