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Digital Primary Sources and Images

Text Collections

General:

ACLS Humanities E-Books (HEB) (All US JHU)

Acta Sanctorum: The Full Text Database (All US JHU)

CETEDOC library of Christian Latin texts : see CLCLT Library of Latin Texts (Eisenhower AV)

Gerritsen Collection of Women's History Online, 1543-1945 (All US JHU)

Gutenberg-e (All US JHU)

HeinOnline (All JHU (incl. International))

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Any location)

Past Masters: Full Text of Classic Works in the Humanities (All US JHU)

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (All US JHU)

Women Writers Online (All US JHU)

Europe:

17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (All JHU (incl. International))

19th Century British Newspapers (All JHU (incl. International))

19th Century British Periodicals Digital Archive (All JHU (incl. International))

ARTFL (All JHU (incl. International))

Bibliothèque des lettres (All JHU (incl. International))

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900 (All US JHU)

CLCLT Library of Latin Texts (All US JHU)

Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker im WWW (All JHU (incl. International))

Early English Books Online (All US JHU)

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (All US JHU)

Monumenta Germaniae Historia (Eisenhower AV)

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) (All US JHU)

Patrologia Latina the full text database. (All US JHU)

Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-1985 (All US JHU)

Voltaire Electronique (All US JHU)

North America:

American Civil War Letters and Diaries (All US JHU)

American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 (All US JHU)

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (All US JHU)

Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (All US JHU)

Declassified Documents Reference System (All JHU (incl. International))

Digital National Security Archive (All US JHU)

Early encounters in North America peoples, cultures, and the environment. (All US JHU)

Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) (All US JHU)

Harper's Weekly: 1857-1912 (All US JHU)

Historic Documents Series (All US JHU)

LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History (All US JHU)

Maryland County Histories (All US JHU)

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (All US JHU)

Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 (All US JHU)

ProQuest Newspapers (Historical) (All US JHU)

The September 11 Digital Archive (Any location)

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (All US JHU)

Africana Studies:

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century (All US JHU)

Black Studies Center (All US JHU)

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975 (All US JHU)

Oxford African American Studies Center (All US JHU)

Middle East:

Arab Israeli Relations 1917-1970 (All US JHU)

Soncino Classics Collection (Eisenhower AV)

Jewish Studies:

Responsa project (Eisenhower AV)

Image Sources:

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive (All US JHU)

ARTstor (All US JHU)

Text and Image Websites:

Footnote [North America]

Liberty Equality Fraternity [French Revolution]

Travellers in the Middle East Archive [texts and images especially for Egypt]

EuroDocs [all Europe]

Muslim Christian and Jewish Relations in the Middle East

For other online resources go to History Databases or Medieval and Renaissance Studies Databases