E-Resources for History & Primary Resources

Electronic version of the 21-volume publication; covers Eisenhower's career before and during World War II and through his presidency.

Full text of the rolls of parliament (translated and in the original Latin, Anglo-Norman or Middle English). The rolls were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272) until the reign of Henry VII (1509).

Access the electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Full text is available.

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

The Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century. These newspapers, some of which had a relatively short lifespan, provide important and critical insight into the events and personalities that defined post-Soviet Russian politics and history.

Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, collected and translated into English by the CIA.

Pravda was the official voice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991 and the most important newspaper of the Soviet era.

Articles published by major communist Chinese newspapers, collected and translated into English by the CIA.

Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, information about congressional members and committees, and executive documents (1789-1931). Some full text is available.

Multidisciplinary database covering issues related to cultural history. This resource indexes more than 550 magazines.

Sabin Americana contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Resources include books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and military actions. Full text is available.

Provides access to detailed maps of Oklahoma cities from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. View street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use and physical features, house and block numbers, pipelines, railroads, wells, and dumps. Special features include the ability to manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years. Dates vary by city.

The largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The resource includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

Brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including more than 1,000 books and pamphlets.

Features English, Gujarati, and Bengali language newspapers published in India, in the regions of the Subcontinent that now comprise Pakistan, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). South Asian Newspapers offers extensive coverage of the people, issues, culture, politics, and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent during 19th and 20th centuries.

Included in the World Newspaper Archive database, this collection provides access to ten different nineteenth and twentieth century South Asian newspapers written in Bengali, Gujarati, and English. 

The Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers collection includes five Ukrainian and Russian language newspapers from three different Ukrainian cities, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv. This collection covers the early 20th century, a tumultuous time for Ukraine, and documents the Ukrainian War for Independence, the Holodomor, and the establishment of the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

State Papers Online is published in four parts covering two hundred years of British and European history. Includes documents from the 16th-18th century British government, including correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts. Full text is available.

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in Southern Africa, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Over 20,000 primary source materials include periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, oral histories, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, photographs, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.

SUR is one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. SUR featured the writings of the leading figures in literature, philosophy, history, and the arts from Latin America, North America, and Western Europe. Contributors included LeCorbusier, Lacan, Sarte, Borges, Cort√°zar, Silvinia Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. This collection includes images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs, advertisements, a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.