Document Archives
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Library of Congress - Digital Collections
Plan of the town of Boston 1775
Cities and Towns | Chronicling America | Country Studies | Sandborn Maps
Digital National Security Archives
Immigration to the U.S.: 1789-1930
Documenting the American South
New York Public Library - Digital Library Collections
Boston University Libraries | Gotlieb Archival Research Center
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AM Explorer
AM EXPLORER
Search Adam Matthew's digitized arts and cultural heritage materials.
Subjects include Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Politics, Literature, Theatre, War and Conflict.
Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980
Coherent Digital Collections
Coherent Digital: COMMONS: MODULES
Public Health and Social Care
Policy statements on public health topics.
Global Think Tanks
Publications from a wide variety of think tanks and policy organizations around the world.
World Cities and Local Governments
Government Documents. Rare and hard-to-find reports, surveys, and research reports from cities and local urban agencies around the world.
Open Collections
Content from government organizations experiencing the removal of public information and data—ensuring long-term, free access for the public.
Accessible Archives
Historical American Newspapers, Books and Journals. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, published in popular 19th century newspapers including African-American publications.
Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War
From the National Archive (UK)
Refugees, Migration, and Borders Social Justice and Culture
Stories from and about refugee and migrant communities from Cold War migrations to current displacements.
Indigenous Peoples Social Justice and Culture
Social, cultural, and political dimensions of Indigenous communities around the world.
LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture
Preserving hundreds of thousands of items, mainstream and ephemeral, that document the history of social change.
Africa History and Culture
An online resource to help digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials.
ProQuest History Vault
ProQuest HISTORY VAULT
Find key archival materials with a single search.
Primary source materials including digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and more.
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ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new windowIncludes information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. Over 1,000 different archival institutions are represented. ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
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Accessible Archives This link opens in a new windowEyewitness accounts of historical events, ads and genealogical records published in popular 19th century newspapers including African-American publications.
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American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals This link opens in a new windowDigitized images of American magazines published between 1684 and 1912. Covers history of slavery, literature, women's and religious issues, politics, culture, the arts and foreign language journals published in the U.S.
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Black Abolitionist Papers This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the U.S. between 1830 and 1865. Includes letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays from libraries and archives in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States.
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window
Letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories; much material was unpublished.
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Visual History Archive This link opens in a new windowAudiovisual interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. The current collection includes more than 54,000 eyewitness testimonies.