E-Resources for History & Primary Resources

L'Année Philologique is an international bibliography of books, periodical articles, and dissertations that covers works dealing with all aspects of classical antiquity, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

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International survey of the effects of apartheid on South Africa and the world with a digitized collection of primary source documents related to apartheid. Built from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS).

Current directory of repositories and collections of primary source material across the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes the entire National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, as well as descriptions of holdings and information to contact repositories directly.

Contains over 1300 Celtic-Latin texts from the period 400-1200 A.D. Topics covered include theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, legal texts, charters, inscriptions, and more.

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Allows searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in over 1,000 archival institutions around the world.

Medieval Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle's works.

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American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) covers classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing from the 13th through the 20th century. Some full text is available.

Series 1 provides an archive of religious and theological literature from the late 13th century through 1893. Volumes are in a range of languages, including English, German, French, Aramaic, Arabic, Greek and Hebrew.

Series 2 provides an archive of religious and theological literature from 1894 through 1922. Topics include the changing landscape of religion in America, the growing interest in non-Western religions at the turn of the century, church life, missionary activity, social movements, and demographics.

Archives the African-American historical newspaper the Atlanta Daily World, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

More than 550 works by authors of African and African-American descent, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, novels, essays, poems, and more.

Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource provides access to texts that document the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century from the perspectives of men, women, and children.

Black Life in America, Series 3 offers a window into African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent. Updated daily with new content, this database provides in-depth coverage of issues involved in America’s ongoing conversation on race, including coverage of historic changes such as Barack Obama’s election and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Black Studies Center consists of scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black Studies, and historic indexes. This resource includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database (formerly International Index to Black Periodicals), the Black Literature Index, and historical black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender.

Contains the non-fiction published works of over 1,000 leading African Americans, including artists, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, entertainers, and more. Resources cover over 250 years of history and include interviews, journal articles, letters, speeches, trial transcripts, and other materials. Full text is available.

Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society during the 19th century. Full text is available.

Provides access to facsimile images of letters, poems, plays, novels, and other literary works of British authors over seven centuries.

Provides access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Formats include magisterial quarterlies, scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines. Full text is available.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an index with more than 20 million records for books, periodicals, newspapers, government publications, reference material, and archival collections. This database includes The Wellesley Index for Victorian Periodicals, The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Periodicals Index Online, and American Periodicals Series
 

This resource covers the diverse history of the Caribbean islands over nearly 400 years. Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.