E-Resources for History & Primary Resources

Four centuries of history, from early contact to the modern era, are featured in this resource. Coverage includes peoples of North and Central America; materials include manuscripts, illustrations, newspapers, books, photos and maps. Cross-searchable with the American West database. This database was formerly called American Indian Histories and Cultures. 

Indigenous Newspapers of North America offers a diverse collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada. Resources include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. This collection is also bi-lingual and features editions in Indigenous-languages, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo. Subjects covered include the self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, language revitalization, environmentalism, tribal laws, public health and welfare, and rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective. This resource has been developed with the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned and was formerly known as American Indian Newspapers. 

Indigenous Peoples of North America Part I provides access to diverse information sources to enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, traditions, innovations, and political status of Indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada. Resources include manuscripts, books, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, and artwork.

Newly released in 2022, Indigenous Peoples of North America Part II: The Indian Rights Association 1882-1986 provides a record of the first organization to address Native American interests and rights. Resources include correspondence, pamphlets, draft legislation, administrative files, the papers of Indian Rights Association founder Herbert Welsh, photographs, manuscripts, and research notes.

With nearly 3,900 titles and more than 2.3 million total pages dedicated to indigenous American life and law, this library includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. This library also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen. This database was formerly known as American Indian Law Collection.

Provides access to a large collection of Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) databases covering a wide range of topics. Includes archives of mass media, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, with reference information. Full text is available.

NOTE: You do not have to register a personal login name to use this database, but if you choose to, you will be able to keep your saved settings, queries, and document collection between sessions.

An electronic version of Iter Italicum, originally published in print by Paul Oskar Kristeller between 1963 and 1992. Considered the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely cataloged Renaissance humanistic manuscripts in libraries and collections all over the world.

Provides fully searchable and browsable English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Dictionary of Synonyms in Japanese, Encyclopedia of Japan, Yuhikaku Dictionary of Psychology, Shogakukan-Oxford English-Japanese Learner's Thesaurus, Great Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature, articles published in the weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, the Toyo Bunko, a database of pre-modern Japanese works, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, and other resources.

Provides access to English translations of foreign language materials from regions throughout the world. Includes monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts. This database is ideal for the study of history of science, global economics, agriculture, health, political culture, international relations, and military affairs.

Included in the World Newspaper Archive, this collection provides access to more than 35 nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American newspapers. Features titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere. Full text is available and new content is being added regularly.

The Library of Latin Texts is the world's leading database for Latin texts with works from the ancient period to the 20th century. Series A consists of Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature through the Second Vatican Council while series B provides access to Latin texts of all periods and genres. This resource includes the complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis.

NOTE: To access this resource, choose "IP recognition" on the resource platform. 

Provides full text access to documents related to the U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.

This collection provides access to over 900 newspapers from over 340 Ukrainian cities. While most newspapers in the collection are in Ukrainian and Russian, there are also papers written in German, Armenian, Crimean Tatar, Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian, and more. Together, these newspapers document the regional consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the early period of Ukraine's independence, and events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004-2005). 

Provides access to important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Works of epic and lyric poetry, drama, history, philosophy, medicine, religion, mathematics, and more are included in this resource.

A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.

Archives the historical African-American newspaper, Los Angeles Sentinel, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

Full text online archive of the Los Angeles Times, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.

From one of the most important periods of legal development, this archive is a comprehensive full text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises. It allows for full text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - all separated into 99 subject areas.

The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is a collection of documents from Anglo-American trials. Contains works pertaining to the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, and English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions, such as France. Resources include published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and other trial documents; official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions; and books and pamphlets about specific trials. Topics include adultery, commercial law, constitutional law, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, military offenses, murder, sexuality, slavery, torts, treason, and wills.

The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection covers the expansion of world trade, the Industrial Revolution, and the development of modern capitalism. Resources include rare books and primary source materials covering a variety of subjects, including commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

Digital archive spanning 19 countries and four decades covering cultural, economic, and political developments within the regions. Built from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS).