Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications, including The Liberator 1831-1865, Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1889, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, American County Histories to 1900, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, and The South Carolina Gazette, and more.
The library's subscription to the Complete Collection of Historical American Newspapers, Books and Journals includes:
African American Newspapers
African American Newspapers in the South
American County Histories
American Inventor
Anatomy of Protest in America
Frank Leslie’s Weekly
Godey’s Lady’s Book
History of Woman Suffrage
National Anti-Slavery Standard
Native Americans in History
Quarantine and Disease Control
Reconstruction of Southern States
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
South Carolina Newspapers
The Civil War Collection
The Liberator
The Pennsylvania Gazette
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
The Virginia Gazette
The Woman’s Tribune
Twelve Years A Slave
Women’s Suffrage
World War I Military Camp Newspapers
and additional Open Access materials
Declassified FBI reports dealing with every aspect of antiwar work carried out by the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). The collection also includes surveillance on a variety of other antiwar groups and individuals, with an emphasis on student groups and communist organizations. Covers the period 1967 to 1975.
Spanning many genres and historical periods, this collection contains over 69,000 tracks from over 4,000 albums.
Document collections supporting historical research on a broad range of topics. Strengths include American history, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, women’s and gender studies, popular culture, and literary studies.
This resource was purchased thanks in part to a donation from the Estate of Lee Somers. 
AM Explorer Arts & Humanities comprises more than 95 collections that can be cross-searched or accessed individually.
* Indicates perpetually-owned collections; all others are by subscription:
1980s Culture and Society
Africa and the New Imperialism
African American Communities
Age of Exploration
America in World War Two
American Committee on Africa
American History
American West
Amnesty International Archives
Apartheid South Africa
British Newsreels
Broadcasting America
Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan
Children's Literature and Culture
China, America & The Pacific
China: Culture & Society
China: Trade, Politics & Culture
Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Colonial America*
Colonial Caribbean
Confidential Print: Africa*
Confidential Print: Latin America
Confidential Print: Middle East
Confidential Print: North America
Conflict in Indochina
Defining Gender
Early Modern England
East India Company
Eighteenth Century Drama
Eighteenth Century Journals
Empire Online*
Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life and Women in America
First World War Portal
Food & Drink in History
Foreign Office Files for China
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Foreign Office Files for Japan
Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East
Frontier Life
Gender: Identity and Social Change
Global Commodities
Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making
India, Raj & Empire
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
Interwar Culture
J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
Jewish Life In America
Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture
Life at Sea
Literary Manuscripts Berg
Literary Manuscripts Leeds
Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company
London Low Life
Macmillan Cabinet Papers
Market Research & American Business
Mass Observation Online
Mass Observation Project
Medical Services and Warfare
Medieval Family Life
Medieval Travel Writing
Meiji Japan
Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution
Migration to New Worlds
Nineteenth Century Literary Society
Olympic Movement
Perdita Manuscripts
Popular Culture in Britain & America
Popular Medicine in America
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
Race Relations in America
Romanticism: Life, Literature & Landscape
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
Service Newspapers of World War Two
Sex & Sexuality
Shakespeare in Performance
Shakespeare's Globe Archive
Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice
Socialism on Film
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Grand Tour
The Nixon Years
The Olympic Movement
The Transformation of Shopping
Trade Catalogues and the American Home
Trade in Early Modern London
Travel Writing, Spectacle & World History
Victorian Popular Culture
Victorians on Film
Virginia Company Archives
Women in the National Archives*
Women's Voices and Life Writing
World's Fairs
Historical documents covering a broad range of topics. Strengths include U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, gender, sexuality, and women's studies, the Holocaust, and modern history of Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
We subscribe to more than 70 collections:
Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files
African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress, 1933-1947
America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War
American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Annual Reports, Minutes and other Records, 1958-1972
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Annual Reports, Minutes and other Records, 1973-1980, and pamphlets and serial items, 1958-1980
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Annual Reports, Minutes and other Records, pamphlets and serial items, 1981-1985
Archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Pamphlets and Serials, 1985-1990 and Bruce Kent's Speeches and Articles, 1981-1989
Archives of the Work Projects Administration and Predecessors, 1933-1943: Final State Reports for the Federal Music Project, the Federal Art Project, the Museum Extension Project, the Federal Theatre Project, and the Federal Writers' Project
Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle
Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)
City and Business Directories: Alabama, 1837-1929
City and Business Directories: Louisiana, 1805-1929
City and Business Directories: Maryland, 1752-1929
City and Business Directories: Mississippi, 1860-1929
City and Business Directories: Tennessee, 1849-1929
City and Business Directories: Virginia, 1801-1929
City and Business Directories: West Virginia, 1839-1929
Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
Counterattack Project: The FBI Files
East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963
Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910
FBI File on Albert Einstein
FBI File on America First Committee
FBI File on Harry Dexter White
FBI File on Joseph Kennedy
FBI File on Nelson Rockefeller
FBI File on Robert F. Kennedy
FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC
Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
Federal Surveillance of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents
Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990
Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944
George H. W. Bush and Foreign Affairs: The Moscow Summit and the Dissolution of the USSR
German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941
Global Missions and Theology
Grassroots Civil Rights & Social Activism: FBI Files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes
Intelligence Reports from the National Security Council's Vietnam Information Group, 1967-1975
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration
JFK and Foreign Affairs, 1961-1963
Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection
Journaux de la Révolution de 1848 (Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848)
La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Résistance et journaux de Vichy (Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers)
Liberation Movement in Africa and African America
Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project
Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia
National Farm Worker Ministry: Mobilizing Support for Migrant Workers, 1939-1985
National Security and FBI Surveillance Enemy Aliens
Nazi Bank and Financial Institutions: U.S. Military Government Investigation Reports and Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, 1945-1949
Nazism in Poland: The Diary of Governor-General Hans Frank
Nuremberg Laws and Nazi Annulment of German Jewish Nationality
Official and Confidential Files of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis
Republic of New Afrika
SAFEHAVEN Reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries and Assets in Neutral Countries
Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party
The Amerasia Affair, China, and Postwar Anti-Communist Fervor
The Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
The Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
The Jewish Question: Records from the Berlin Document Center
The Minutemen, 1963-1969: Evolution of the Militia Movement in America, Part I
The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
Through the Camera Lens: The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927
Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China relations, 1989-1993
U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
Witchcraft in Europe and America
Women's Issues and Their Advocacy Within the White House, 1974-1977
Women's Periodicals: Social and Political Issues
World Communism: Pamphlets from McMaster University
This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves.
Collection comprises approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history, and includes letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts in addition to familiar works.
This primary source collection contains digitized images of nearly every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1819. Series I is based on a definitive work called the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and covers 1639-1800. Series II, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, covers 1801-1819.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) features the digitized format of 150,000 printed works -- nearly every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
An interactive database of Harper's Weekly magazine from the Civil War Era through the Gilded Age.
Coverage: 1857-1912
Digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This archive examines the realities of segregation and coverage spans from 1909 to 1972. Includes nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings and direct action summaries from the association's offices throughout the United States.
Beginning in 1788 with Lord Dunmore's offer of emancipation and ending in 1896 with Plessy v. Ferguson, Part IV: Age of Emancipation includes a range of rare documents related to the emancipation of slaves in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world. Emancipation was a long-sought dream that eventually became a political and moral expectation.
This resource was made possible through the Estate of Lee Somers. 
Plantation Records are both business records and personal papers because the plantation was both the business and the home for plantation owners. Business records include ledger books, payroll books, cotton ginning books, work rules, account books, and receipts. Personal papers include family correspondence, diaries, and wills. As business owners, the commodities produced by plantation owners--rice, cotton, sugar, tobacco, hemp, and others--accounted for more than half of the nation's exports.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more. Many entries include easily accessible raw text.
Digital library created from the collections of major research libraries in the United States and around the world. Items range from medieval Arabic manuscripts to early modern European incunabula, from colonial American pamphlets to 19th-century treatises on natural history. Although a part of the collection is only accessible to members of participating/contributing institutions, many materials (particularly those no longer in copyright) are freely accessible.