Books
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ARTFL-FRANTEXT12th century through the 20th. Over 3,500 French language texts.
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Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker = Deutscher Klassiker Verlag = Digitale Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker im WWWFocus on the nineteenth-century, but covers all periods. Includes historical, philosophical, theological, political, and art history texts as well as essays, speeches and other non-literary material.
Periodicals: Major Collections
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DigiZeitschriftenOver 700 scholarly journals. 1700-present.
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JSTORThe full text of over 2,800 scholarly journals, with coverage back to the first issue for each, in some cases as far back as the 17th century. Recent issues of most journals in this database are embargoed by journal publishers, so to be certain you are also identifying the most recent publications, use an article index like Historical Abstracts or America: History, and Life.
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Periodicals Archive Online1665-present. Over 700 European and American periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Periodicals: Smaller Collections
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Action Sociale de la Femme et le Livre Francaise, 1902-1939From the collections of the Library of Congress. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique1878-1891. Official bulletin of the Société Académique Indo-Chinoise. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Bulletin du Comite de l'Afrique francaise1891-1914. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Christliches Kunstblatt, 1859-1905Monthly periodical published by the Verein für religiöse Kunst in der evangelischen Kirche. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Interwar CultureFull color reproductions of 45 periodicals, chiefly British and American. Module I is strongest in magazines for women. Also notable in this module are fashion magazines, children's magazines, travel magazines, and general interest magazines.
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Organ für Christlichen Kunst, 1857-1914Published by the Christlichen Kunstveriens für Deutschland in Cologne. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Revue de l'art Chretien, 1857-1914Published in Paris by the Société de Saint-Jean. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst, 1888-1921Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
Newspapers
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ZEFYS: Historische Zeitungen-ZeitungsinformationssystemAlmost 200 German newspapers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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digiPress: Das Zeitungsportal der Bayerischen StaatsbibliothekDigitized newspapers from the Bavarian State Library.
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Deutsche Kolonialzeitung1884-1922. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Neues Deutschland Archive, 1946-2022Neues Deutschland began publication in 1946 as the official newspaper of the East German Communist Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands). Since the Wende, the newspaper has remained a socialist organ, even as its circulation has plummeted. Part of EastView Global Press Archive.
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GallicaBooks, newspapers, periodicals, and other sources digitized from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). Gallica is "an encyclopaedic and comprehensive library, representative of major French authors and of the various trends of reflection and research over the centuries....priority is given to French-speaking culture; however, some foreign classics are also available in their original language or in a translated version."
Major Digital Collections
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African Diaspora, 1860-PresentCovering African diasporic communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, Britain, and France from 1860 to the present, this collection contains both primary and secondary textual sources, as well as feature films and television programs. Primary sources include archival collections, composed principally of two major record series from the British National Archives (series CO, Records of the Colonial Office; and series FO, Records of the Foreign Office). You will also find periodicals, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, correspondence, interviews, personal narratives, literary works, and photographs. Hundreds of websites are indexed as well.
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Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker = Deutscher Klassiker Verlag = Digitale Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker im WWWFocus on the nineteenth-century, but covers all periods. Includes historical, philosophical, theological, political, and art history texts as well as essays, speeches and other non-literary material.
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Central and East European Online Library (CEEOL)Journals, books, and grey literature from and about Central and Eastern Europe. 1930-present.
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Chronicles of TerrorTestimony given by Polish citizens suffered war crimes perpetrated by the German and Soviet totalitarian regimes. Accounts can be explored by type of war crime, location of war crime, nationality or ethnicity of perpetrator, nationality or ethnicity of victim, and other subjects treated in the witness testimony.
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The First World WarDiaries, letters, postcards, personal narratives, trench literature, maps, scrapbooks, albums, photographs, sketches, paintings, sheet music, cartoons, posters, propaganda, and other ephemera. Documents the war from a global perspective, covering multiple war fronts (Western Front, Ireland, Italian Front, Eastern Front, Balkans, Gallipoli, Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, neutral countries), and including documents in over 30 different languages (Afrikaans, Arabic, Belgian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slavic, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh, and Yiddish).
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily ReportsCovering the period September 4, 1941 through 1996. The FBIS is a branch of the United States government that has operated variously under the Federal Communications Commission, the War Department, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Its purpose is to produce “open source intelligence” reports for the U.S. government. The agency monitors radio broadcasts, newspapers, and other publicly available news sources from around the world, and then transcribes and translates this news so that it may be used to inform American foreign policy. Sometimes news is translated in its entirety; sometimes it is summarized. In addition to news, the FBIS staff translate speeches, interviews, and other types of information sources. n addition to keyword searching, the collection also supports browsing by major historical events.
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Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970Legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other European countries.
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Justis 2.0Ceased. European case law dating back to 1163, and statutory law from 1235.
Smaller Collections
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Brazilian and Portuguese History and CultureOver 4,000 Luso-Brazilian pamphlets, mostly from the 19th century.
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European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey CollectionPart of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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British Library: 19th Century European Sheet Maps1792-1923. 1,225 maps from the British Library. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Nineteenth Century Travel Literature1800-1899. 2,510 books from the Bryn Mawr College Library. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Voyages en Italie (Gallica)French language travel narratives and related documents about travel in Italy, from Medieval through the early 20th century.
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Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848Over one hundred pamphlets and periodicals published between 1848 and 1851. Part of the ARTFL-Project.
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Voyages en France (Gallica)Travel narratives and related documents about travel in France, from Medieval through 19th century.
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Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth CenturyMostly images documenting 19th century Paris. Collection organized around nine broad thematic categories: Architecture, Art, City Planning, Colonialism, Government and Politics, Literature, Medicine, Public Works, and Social Life. From Brown University.
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The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871Over one thousand photographs and images made during the Siege and Commune. From the Deering LIbrary at Northwestern University.
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Travel Narratives and Personal Reminiscences1786-1921. Almost 300 travel narratives by British and French travelers. From the collections of the British Library. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Colonialism and Nationalism in the Dutch East Indies, 1910-1930TRIAL. Digitized from NARA Record Group 59, Records of the U.S. State Department, Central Classified Files, Class 800, Netherlands, 1910-1929: 856d, 856e, 856f, 856g, 856h, and 856i. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Der literarische Expressionismus Online1910-1930. Journals, yearbooks, and anthologies from the German Expressionist movement.
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German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941170 books and pamphlets from the collections of the Library of Congress. Also includes works on Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Jesuits, and the Freemasons. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and PrisonsTRIAL. Concentration Camps Correspondence, 1936-1945; Internment and Transit Camps Correspondence, 1940-1944; Gestapo Prisons Correspondence, 1942-1943; Prisoner of War (POW) Correspondence, 1940-1945; Receipts for Parcels, Money Orders and Personal Effects, 1940-[ca. 1945]; Paper Currency, 1940-1945; and Realia, [ca. 1939-1945]. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes, 1944-1949TRIAL. Documents from NARA Record Group 153, Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army), War Crimes Branch, Entry 149: Records of Concentration Camp Trials. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration, 1938-1947TRIAL. Digitized from the microfilm set Records of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, 1938-1947. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Czechoslovakia from Liberation to Communist State, 1945-63: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified FilesTRIAL. Digitized from the microfilm collections Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1945-1949: Department of State Decimal File 860f; Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1950-1954: Department of State Decimal Files 749, 849, and 949; and Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1960-1963: Department of State decimal files 749.00/1 to 949A.6211/5-1260. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Economy and War in the Third Reich, 1933-1944TRIAL. Digitized from the microfilm set Statistics of the Third Reich Analyzed, 1933-1944. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945TRIAL. Records from the British Foreign Office. Part of Archives Unbound.
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East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963Digitized from the microfilm sets Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Germany, 1950-1954; Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Germany, 1955-1959; and Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of East Germany, 1960-1963. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and ConquestPart of Nineteenth Century Collections Online. The African Mail, 1845-1917; the African World and Cape-Cairo Express, 1905-1913; the Annales de l'Extreme Orient et de l'Afrique, 1878-1891; the Bulletins du Comite de l'Afrique francaise, 1891-1914; a collection of colonial African newspapers from the British Library; despatches from United States consulates in Africa, 1818-1906; the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, 1884-1922; correspondence and entry books from the British War and Colonial Department, 1794–1843, related to the exploration of Africa; a collection of books from the Kolonialbibliothek at the Universitätsbibliothek J.C. Senckenberg at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main on German colonization of Africa; colonial censuses of Africa, 1820-1931; papers of Joseph Chamberlain relating to Africa; Methodist Episcopal Church African missionary correspondence, 1846-1912; travel narratives of African exploration; official statistical registers and blue books of Cape Colony; official statistical yearbooks and censuses of the Natal Colony; Report of the Boundary Survey between British Bechuanaland and German Southwest Africa of 1898-1903; selected Africa collections from the Bodleian Library; selected British Cabinet papers on Africa; selected Colonial Office files on Africa; selected Dominions Office files on Africa; selected Foreign Office files on Africa; selected India Office records on colonial Africa; selected War Office files on Africa; selected maps and plans files on Africa; memoirs of colonial Africa; and Yale Divinity School periodicals on Africa.
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German Foreign Relations and Military Activities in China, 1919-1935TRIAL. Digitized from NARA Record Group 242: National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, T-1141: Records of the German Foreign Ministry Pertaining to China, 1919-1935. Part of Archives Unbound.
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The History of Education: Education of the Handicapped1800-1920. 173 books, primarily published in Germany. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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The History of Education: Psychology1800-1920. 301 books, primarily published in Germany. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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Latin American and Iberian Biographies1778-1987. 975 biographical pamphlets. Part of World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean.
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U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Combat Estimates, Europe, 1920-1943Currently unavailable online. Might be available on microfilm--inquire with librarian. NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Office of the Director of Intelligence G-2. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.
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U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: France, 1919-1941Currently unavailable online. Might be available on microfilm--inquire with librarian. NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Military Intelligence Division Files, France. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.
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U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Germany, 1919-1941Currently unavailable online. Might be available on microfilm--inquire with librarian. NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Military Intelligence Division Files, Germany. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.
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U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Germany, 1941-1944, Part 1: Geography, Population and Social Conditions, Politics and Government, Economy, and FinanceCurrently unavailable online. Might be available on microfilm--inquire with librarian. NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Office of the Director of Intelligence G-2. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.
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U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Germany, 1941-1944, Part 2: National Defense, Army, Navy, and Military AviationCurrently unavailable online. Might be available on microfilm--inquire with librarian. NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Office of the Director of Intelligence G-2. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.
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U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Italy, 1918-1941Currently unavailable online. Might be available on microfilm--inquire with librarian. NARA RG 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs: Office of the Director of Intelligence G-2. Part of ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944.
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Underground and Independent Comics1960s-present. Comics from North America and Europe. Browse by subject (e.g. "Homosexuality" or "Hate Crime"), publisher, or publication date.
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Indochina, France, and the Viet Minh War, 1945-1954: Records of the U.S. State Department, Part 1: 1945-1949TRIAL. Part of Archives Unbound.
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Mass Incarceration and Prison StudiesInternational in scope (with heavy emphasis on North America and Europe), the collection is organized around key events and themes, such as internment camps, prison labor, prison riots, juvenile detention, capital punishment, and the economics of mass incarceration. Brings together a variety of document types, such as government documents (including trial documents); institutional records; documentary videos; web content; memoirs, interviews, and personal narratives; pamphlets and ephemera; and literary works. Bulk of the primary sources were created between 1920 and 1950.
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Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969: Europe and Latin AmericaThe European files principally cover Germany and the Soviet Union. The Latin American files cover Cuba, Mexico, and Panama. Part of ProQuest History Vault.