Historical Documents & Literary Texts
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- Aluka (Images, Historical documents, Journal articles - full text, Government records)
- An online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Includes three content areas: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes, African Plants, and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.
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- America's Historical Imprints (1639 - 1819 • Literary texts, Historical documents, Newspaper articles - full text, Journal articles - full text)
- A definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. This incomparable digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America over a 180-year period. Includes Early American Imprints, Series I, based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s supplement and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 based on the noted "American Bibliography, 1801-1819" by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
- More Info: About Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker, About Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans • EndNote Import: America's Historical Imprints-CC
- American Periodicals (1741 - 1900 • Historical documents, Journal articles - full text)
- Pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
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- American State Papers, 1789-1838 (1789 to 1817 • Government records, Historical documents)
- Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817
- More Info: American State Papers Help, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 • EndNote Import: American State Papers-CC
- ArchiveGrid (Abstracts, Historical documents)
- Index of archival finding aids and collection descriptions from archives, libraries, and museums.
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- Archives Unbound (1907-1927 • Historical documents)
- Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students. Currently includes: "Through the Camera Lens": Moving Picture World and the Silent Film Era, 1907-1927
- More Info: Through the Camera Lens: Moving Picture World and the Silent Film Era, 1907-1927 • EndNote Import: Archives Unbound-CC
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- British Periodicals (1680 - 1930 • Literary texts, Journal articles - full text, Images)
- Searchable full text and page images of hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th. Also allows searching for cartoons, photographs, illustrations, and other images.
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- Carleton College Archives Database (Historical documents, Images)
- Search all known records of archival photographs, documents, and artifacts at Carleton, as well as view available scans of these items and request appointments to see original copies.
- Carleton Digital Collections (Images, Historical documents, Journal articles - full text)
- A local digital collection of Carleton publications and images from Carleton's Visual Resources Collection, the Carleton Archives, and teaching collections from Carleton faculty.
- Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (antiquity to 19th century China • Literary texts, Historical documents)
- A full-text, digitized version of the Complete Classics Collection, which includes all of the most important classics of ancient China through the Qing Dynasty. The database is in Chinese - you will need to have Traditional Chinese fonts installed on your computer to use this.
- More Info: About the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China • EndNote Import: Not EndNote compatible
- Confidential Print: Middle East (1812 - 1969 • Historical documents)
- Documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of the Middle East including Afghanistan, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Persia, Sudan, Suez Canal, Syria, and Turkey.
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- Early American Newspapers (1690-1922 • Historical documents, Newspaper articles - full text)
- Images and content from historical American newspapers.
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- Early English Books Online (1475 - 1700 • Literary texts)
- Collection of almost 100,000 early English books and tracts.
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- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701 - 1800 • Historical documents, Literary texts)
- Digital images of nearly 150,000 books published in the eighteenth century.
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- Historic Documents Series (1972 - current • Reference articles, Government records, Historical documents)
- Key documents and analysis-updated yearly since 1972. Note: You can also search across all of the CQ Political Reference Suite titles here.
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- King James Bible (Literary texts)
- Search the King James Bible and associated notes by keyword or by the specific chapter and verse.
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- Literature Online (LION) (Literary texts, Video, Sound recordings)
- Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections.
- More Info: About Literature Online, 20th Century African-American Poetry, 20th Century American Poetry, 20th Century English Poetry, African-American Poetry, American Poetry, American Drama, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, Early American Fiction II, Early English Prose Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Drama, English Poetry (600-1900), English Poetry, Second Edition, Faber Poetry Library, The King James Bible, 19th Century Fiction, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, Canadian Poetry, Early American Fiction I, Poets on Screen, Shakespeare Audio Plays • EndNote Import: Literature Online-CC
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- Making of the Modern World (1450 - 1914 • Historical documents)
- Primary documents in economic history from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School — along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University.
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- Medieval Sourcesonline (Historical documents)
- Original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history.
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- Middle English Compendium (Reference articles, Literary texts, Journal articles - citations)
- The Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, and links to other electronic resources.
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- OAIster (Images, Historical documents)
- Union catalog of digital resources from thousands of libraries, archives, and museums, including descriptive information about each resource.
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- Patrologia Latina Database (AD 200 - AD 1216 • Literary texts)
- A complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
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- Perseus Digital Library (Historical documents, Literary texts)
- A digital library of resources for the study of the humanities, including the Archaic and Classical Greek world, Latin texts and tools and Renaissance materials.
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- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Literary texts)
- Virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.
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- Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Literary texts)
- Considered the most comprehensive source for Latin lexicography, includes full text of literary works, inscriptions, and other documentary evidence written in Latin from 400BCE to 600CE. NOTE: This collection is still under development; not all content is yet online.
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- U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 (1817 to 1980 • Government records, Historical documents)
- Reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes
- More Info: U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps, U.S. Congressional Serial Set Help, American State Papers, 1789-1838 • EndNote Import: U.S. Congressional Serial Set-CC
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- Women and Social Movements in the United States - Scholar's Edition (1600-2000 • Historical documents)
- Full text of primary documents, teaching tools and document projects on Women and Social Movements in the US.
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- Women Writers Online (1400 - 1850 • Literary texts)
- Texts by pre-Victorian women writers.
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