Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790–1840
This unique collection of monographs includes a wide range of Romantic literature published in English, French, and German. Sourced from Castle Corvey in North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany, the Corvey Collection is one of the most-important surviving collections of works from the period. With a special focus on these rare works, especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known women writers, more than 9,500 titles are included.
Associated Press Collections Online: Washington, DC Bureau, Part II
This collection covers significant news reporting on the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of World War I and the post-war period in America and abroad.
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, Part II, 1763-1970
Composed of US codes, constitutional conventions and compilations, and municipal codes, this collection enhances scholarly access to essential documents in American legal history through the second half of the twentieth century.
Sources in U.S. History Online: The American Revolution
As part of the Sources in U.S. History Online series, which delivers personal accounts, pamphlets, speeches, and more, this collection provides access to the essential primary source documents that tell the story of a nation's birth, as well as its early challenges and milestones.
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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, Part II
This resource provides an interpretive analysis with books on codes, focusing on Roman and canon law and covering southern Europe (Italy and Iberia), Latin America, Canada, Australia, India, and other jurisdictions.
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
With 2.1 million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, this collection presents the broadest and deepest collection of materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice.
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories
The firsthand perspectives in this cross-disciplinary collection illustrate decolonization as a historical process by which over 70 previously colonized nations shifted from imposed structures to independent systems. Chronicling events primarily after World War II, these documents highlight local and Indigenous narratives from non-Western primary sources—and meet urgent needs for less Eurocentric areas of historical and political study.
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013
An online, fully searchable facsimile, the International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013 delivers the full run of this internationally focused daily paper, from its first issue through to 2013. Articles, advertisements, and market listings are included—shown both individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day.
The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part II: Southern Regional Office
The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part II: Southern Regional Office is comprised of never-before-digitized materials documenting the ACLU’s legal battle to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in thirteen Southern states. This collection is an indispensable resource for understanding the complete history of the civil rights movement.
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Liberty, a weekly illustrated magazine, charted the course of middle America from 1924 to 1950 with art, stories, and feature articles from some of the twentieth century's greatest authors, celebrities, artists, and politicians. This digital archive features the complete run of the magazine, including more than 17,000 stories and articles ranging from mystery and suspense to autobiography and humor, revealing the attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and desires of America in the first half of the twentieth century.
Indigenous Peoples of North America
This collection comprehensively covers the history of North American Indigenous peoples and supporting organizations, enabling intelligent inquiry into the culture and heritage of more than seventy tribes within the United States and Canada.
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970
Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 provides scholars with materials that explore the fight for a national health care plan from the end of the Depression well into the 1960s. Content covers medical economics and sociology, medical care, legislation, and the role of key organizations and individuals. The collection’s documentation of the evolution of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at local and federal levels supports the examination of our past while considering outcomes for our future.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
As compelling as it is comprehensive, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the nineteenth century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the United States. The collection encompasses the entire nineteenth century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African American culture and history, westward migration, and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part IV: Age of Emancipation
Part IV: Age of Emancipation includes numerous rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. This collection supports the study of many areas, including activities of the federal government in dealing with former slaves and the Freedmen's Bureau, views of political parties and postwar problems with the South, documents of the British and French government on the slave trade, reports from the West Indies and Africa, and other topics.
Associated Press Collections Online: European Bureaus
From Vienna, its chief listening post, and also from Prague and Warsaw, the Associated Press (AP) covered Eastern Europe during World War II and the Cold War. This collection is composed almost entirely of rare wire copy, recording the declining influence of the Soviet Union, the last days of the Iron Curtain, and the political and economic restructuring of the former Soviet satellites.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Part II: The Slave Trade in the Atlantic World charts the inception of slavery in Africa and its rise as perpetuated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, placing particular emphasis on the Caribbean, Latin America, and United States. More international in scope than Part I, this collection was developed by an international editorial board with scholars specializing in North American, European, African, and Latin American/Caribbean aspects of the slave trade.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition
Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition sheds light on the abolitionist movement, the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonization. It explores all facets of the controversial topic, with a focus on economic, gender, legal, religious, and government issues.
China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part I: 1815–1881
China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part I: 1815–1881 is the first part of an archive that provides a vast and significant primary source for researching every aspect of Chinese-British relations during the nineteenth century and comprehending modern Chinese history.
Chatham House Online Archive: Module 1: 1920–1979
Gale, part of Cengage Group, has partnered with Chatham House, a world leader in policy research on international affairs, to provide online access to Chatham House’s rich archive covering the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Module 1 contains high-level analysis and research on global trends and key events and issues, from the aftermath of World War I into the Cold War.
Chatham House Online Archive: Module 2: 1980–2008
Module 2 of this series with Chatham House contains high-level analysis and research on global trends and key events and issues from the latter part of Cold War to the War on Terror.