Primary Resources

Full-text of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian age of periodicals and beyond with coverage dates of 1680s to 1930s.

Full text of nearly every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from the beginning of printing in England (1473) through 1700.

A multilingual collection of primary sources focused on historical economics, political science, & sociology of Europe. Contains books, journals, political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, & proclamations.

Subject-specific digital collections of historical documents covering many topics.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century.

Presents the Tapestry in a continuous scrolling format and presents annotations of scholarship keyed to relevant sections of the textile.

Electronic version of Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1865. Also comprises the works of the Church Fathers from 200 AD to 1216 AD.

Contains theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, social and political works, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other key documents from the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries.

This database is an electronic version of the complete print edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day. It runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities, reporting on the activities of the French colonial government and the activities of the native peoples.

This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities, reporting on the activities of the Italian colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

Includes the experiences of approximately 500 women, in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Includes biographies and bibliographies.

This collection comprises materials from The National Archives, Kew, UK and contains records of the British administration in Ireland prior to 1922, a period which saw the rise of Parnell and the Land War in 1880 through to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921.

This collection contains Government documents of the British administration in Northern Ireland 1921-72 (CAB/4), including a full record of every debate and transaction for the entire duration of the Stormont administration.

This collection contains political papers documenting Neville Chamberlain’s policies as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister, but also highlight his personal correspondence with his family.

Considered the standard reference source on the unprecedented industrial mobilization of an entire economy to fight the war of 1914-1918, this collection aids in the study of economics behind World War I, the career of David Lloyd George, and the process of state intervention in industry.

This collection comprises documentation related to the activities of Emiliano Zapata and the Liberation Army of the South. It consists mainly of correspondence exchanged between the headquarters and the camps and regional commands, as well as acts or proceedings on revolutionary and civil trials, and information concerning the revolutionary Convention sovereign.

This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women.

This collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues between Central American and South American countries, and includes materials such as cables, memoranda, correspondence, reports and analyzes, and treaties.

This collection, as seen through the eyes of the British diplomatic corps in Russia, provides a unique analysis of this "retro-reform" policy, including the increase of revolutionary agitation, deepening of conservatism and changes from agrarian to industrial society, and spread of pan-Slavism, both in the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe.

This collection documents the Russian entrance into World War I and culminates in reporting on the Revolution in Russia in 1917 and 1918.

This collection reproduces letters, reports, memorandums, cablegrams, maps, charts, and other kinds of records relating to the activities of the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia (AEF in Siberia), 1918-20.

This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relates to commercial and trade relations beginning in the Tsarist Russia period and extending through Khrushchev period in Soviet history. It contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats including materials on treaties, general conditions affecting trade, imports and exports, laws and regulations, customs administration, tariffs, and ports of entry activities.

The Chinese Recorder provides English language accounts of secular events in China including the crusade against opium, the Boxer Rebellion, the 1911 Revolution, and the Sino-Japanese war. Religious topics such as the founding of missionaries and the growth of the Chinese church are well documented.

This collection documents the military history of South Asia and the history of the British military experience in India through Army lists, orders, instructions, regulations, manuals, orders of battle, administration summaries, commissions, reports, maneuvers, and regimental narratives.