Guide to digitized primary source collections, for the most part collections that are owned or licensed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Organized by broad discipline (History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and African American Studies). History is subdivided by region and time period.

A selection of primary and secondary sources culled from larger collections, and several digitized microfilm sets, some listed separately in this guide. Part of Gale Primary Sources.

1500-present. Business records, shipping manifests, correspondence, government reports, pamphlets, statistical records, maps, photographs, paintings, prints, advertising, and other artifacts, thematically arranged by the following commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver, spices, sugar, tea, timber, wheat, wine, and spirits.

Over 4,000 Luso-Brazilian pamphlets, mostly from the 19th century.

TRIAL. Documents the Mexican Revolution. Divided into five series. Series I: the Flores Brothers revolutionary activities MAGO: movement Comun in the Baja California region; Series II: revolution and regime Madero: correspondence, reports and military activities, reports on the political situation in some States; Series III: Emiliano Zapata, the Plan of Ayala and his agrarian policy: land deals, reports of troops and mail operations; Series IV: revolution and regime Constitutionalist: circulars, laws, decrees and manifestos; and Series V: sovereign revolutionary Convention: together prior to the sessions and sessions held 1914-1915. Part of Archives Unbound.

Books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts from Harvard University's library and museum collections, documenting nine major events in the history of medicine, including cholera "Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914."

Newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.

Personal accounts from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes multiple indexes for exploring the collection in different ways. Includes a complete, transcribed edition of the Jesuit Relations.

Of possible interest for this topic, as its emphasis is on the British Empire and sources from British collections. Tilts heavily toward the 18th century, 19th century, and early 20th centuries.

Maps, photographs, field notes, letters, manuscript materials, and publications from Harvard University's library and museum collections, documenting 34 expeditions from 1626-1953. Includes documents from expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctica, Africa, and South America.

Brochures, posters, guidebooks, maps, ephemera, periodicals, films, correspondence, scrapbooks, travel journals, photographs, postcards, company records, government documents, and monographs documenting the history of tourism on all continents, and organized around the following themes: Women and Tourism; Children and Families; Road, Rail and Air Travel; Accommodation, Hospitality and Entertainment; Package Tours, Cruises and Organized Travel; Beachfront: Seaside and Coastal Destinations; The Great Outdoors; Urban Tourism; Health and Medical Travel; Historical, Cultural or Religious Tourism; International Relations; and Planning and Business. 1850 to the 1980s.

Books, pamphlets, periodicals documenting the economic history of the West, very broadly defined, including political writings, works on international relations, international trade and commerce, and slavery, travel narratives, legal cases, and government publications. Based on the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at Harvard University, The Making of the Modern World includes more than 60,000 books and 450 journals.