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Adam Matthew Databases
- American West This link opens in a new windowOriginal and rare printed sources from the Graff Collection about the American West.
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings This link opens in a new windowThis database provides thousands of recordings, interviews, films, field notebooks, correspondence, and more from a variety of areas of study in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.
- First World War This link opens in a new windowThe First World War portal presents primary source documents on the personal experiences of men and women, recruitment, and the development and dissemination of various forms of propaganda.
- Food and Drink in History This link opens in a new windowPrimary source material relating to food and drink in everyday life from a global perspective that illustrate the links between food and identity, politics, power, gender, race, and socio-economic status.
- Foreign Office Files for South East Asia This link opens in a new windowA collection of files from the British Foreign Office (1954-1971) primarily covering Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines.
- Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present.
- Grand Tour This link opens in a new windowAccounts of 18th Century men's travels including diaries, journals; account books, printed guidebooks, published writings, paintings and sketches, architectural drawings, and maps from 1550-1850.
- London Low Life This link opens in a new windowFull-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London.
- Nineteenth Century Literary Society This link opens in a new windowA digital archive of documents from the John Murray publishing company, which rose to prominence in the 19th century and published authors such as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, and others.
- Nixon Years, 1969-1974 This link opens in a new windowPapers and materials on society, domestics, trade, culture, and the environment for the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
- Race Relations in America This link opens in a new windowDocumenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Race Relations Department from Fisk University.
- Sex and Sexuality, Research Collections from the Kinsey Institute This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to primary source material from prominent sex researchers, sexologists, and other specialists from diverse fields.
- Shakespeare's Globe Archive This link opens in a new windowAn archive documenting the performance and construction history of the Globe Theatre reconstruction as well as the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
- Socialism on Film This link opens in a new windowThis collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens in the 20th century.
EEBO
Early English Books Online, or EEBO for short, is among the most valuable resources for English scholarship. EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
You can access Early English Books Online by searching for the title in the A-Z Databases.
Another option is to search EEBO-TCP, an interface that combines EEBO with the Text Creation Partnership (TCP). TCP creates standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a database containing facsimile and full text links to over 180,000 full-text digital items from the ESTC, published in the United Kingdom from approximately 1701 to 1800.
You can search ECCO's holdings using their basic or advanced search, or by browsing. Basic search, with keywords and phrases, is the best option for most searches.
Other Digital Resources
- Alexander Street PressThis online collection includes primary resources, including video, audio, and other multimedia.
- Visual Resources CollectionsInformation on where to find images and video for architecture, art and design, theatre, dance, music, landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning online.
- Primary SourcesA list of multiple primary source databases provided by the University of Illinois.
- Student Life and Culture ArchivesAn archives website containing materials about various aspects of UIUC's student life and culture.