History : Primary Sources

Books, pamphlets and broadsides, from 17th-18th-century America, digitized from the bibliography created by Charles Evans. Also included is the Shaw-Shoemaker Collection covering the first 19 years of the 19th century.

Books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides published during the 18th century (1701-1800).

Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Two collections: Medieval & Renaissance, and 1660-1900.

Brings together manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices, and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology.

Texts by pre-Victorian women writing in English.

Contains the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives from North American immigrants from 1800 to 1950.

Writings of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, from Colonial times to 1950.

A collection of English-language transcriptions of media content from around the world collected by the United States' intelligence community. This collection provides an international perspective on world events.