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- Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive
The Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated Press wire service's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library, plus the AP graphics archive of charts, graphs, etc. The archive is searchable by "what", "when" and "where".
- African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
This collection of African-American newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day,
including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
The database currently contains Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The Colored American (1837-1841), The North Star (1847-51) The National Era (1847-1860), Provincial Freeman (1854-1857), Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1855, eventually to 1859) and The Christian Recorder (1861-1870, eventually to 1902). Other papers will be added in chronological order until this database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
- The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries knits together more than 1000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home. The writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seaman, wives, and even spies are included. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. The materials originate from all regions of the country and are from people who played a variety of roles. The materials may be browsed by table of contents, or the full text may be searched in a variety of ways.
- American Memory Collection
This Library of Congress project provides access to a large number of LoC collections, searchable and browsable by subject and title, including a large quantity of digitized primary source material.
- The American Presidency Project
Created by Prof. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters of the UCSB Political Science Department, this site contains the full ASCII text of a wide range of presidential papers including all inaugural addresses, all State of the Union addresses, and other public papers for most of the Presidents since Hoover, plus political party platforms since 1840 and papers related to the 2000 Presidential elections.
- AmericanSouth.org
AmericanSouth.org seeks to make crucial material for the understanding of the Southern experience accessible to all citizens through the creation of a collaborative digital collection of Southern history and culture. In this project, Emory University, in collaboration with a group of major research libraries in the Southeast, is setting up a central metadata server to function as a portal to selected scholarly resources at cooperating institutions. Scholars are providing intellectual organization for AmericanSouth.org, designing an interactive structure to promote and facilitate research, teaching, and communication. The content will focus on subjects that fit within the framework elucidated by Charles R. Wilson in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Registering for an account with AmericanSouth.org is optional. Not to be confused with Documenting the American South, which see below.
- The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
The Avalon Project of the Yale Law School will mount digital documents (transcripts) relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. In some cases, links are added to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.
- The Beazley Archive
The Beazley Archive at the University of Oxford is a collection of casts and photographs of classical Greek and Roman art. In 1979, the Archive began creating digital collections. At present the digital archive includes extensive collections of images of Greek and Roman sculpture and Greek pottery.
- Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection
This collection is a representative sampling of the vast, cataloged archival images in Chicano visual arts in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) It contains 1,362 images assembled from over 14,000 images in the individual slide collections of four major cultural arts centers and collectives, with their permission: San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza, Los Angeles' Self-Help Graphics and Art , San Francisco's Galería de la Raza, and Sacramento's Royal Chicano Air Force.
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from non-governmental organizations, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from
conferences. schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly.
- The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
This database contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. The text begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. A great effort has been made also to include articles which describe other than military concerns of the day. These include such topics as travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions,
sports and sporting, social events, etc. Since the major events are described in detail by both Union and Confederate papers, their opposing perspectives are readily available for comparative evaluation.
- Collaborative Digitization Project
CDP hosts collections that highlight primary source materials held by archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums throughout the western United States. These collections are significant in telling the story of our cultural heritage.
Among its resources is the Western History photography collection of the Denver Public Library, some 80,000 images and catalog records of Native Americans, pioneers, early railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns.
- Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Cornell offers a wide variety of collections of books, journals and primary papers in electronic form, including a number of collections from their Rare and Manuscripts Digital Collections.
- Declassified Documents Reference System - US (DDRS)
DDRS, a database of Primary Source Media (Gale Group), contains electronic copies of declassified documents from the U.S. presidential libraries. The libraries receive declassified documents from various government agencies: the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and others. As researchers have visited the presidential libraries and requested documents, the libraries have copied them and sent them to Primary Source Media for filming, scanning and indexing. The result is a collection of more than 70,000 documents--400,000 pages--that has literally been built by researchers themselves for nearly two decades. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and others. Not all documents are clearly or completely legible, but both the page images of documents and scanned text are available.
- Defining Gender
The collection eventually will cover five centuries of advice literature for men and women. When complete, this collection will include over 50,000 images of original documents with introductory essays.
- Digital Archive of Architecture
This collection of photographs and illustrations of European and American architecture is the work of Prof. Jeffery Howe of the Fine Arts department of Boston College.
- Digital National Security Archive
The Digital National Security Archive contains more than 40,000 of the most important, declassified documents that led to policy decisions in the United States from 1945-present. As of June, 2003, there are twenty subject collections: Afghanistan (1973-1990), Berlin Crisis (1958-1962), China and the US (1960-1998), Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), El Salvador (1977-1984), El Salvador (1980-1994), Iran-Contra Affair (1983-1988), Iran Revolution (1977-1980), Iraqgate (1980-1994), Japan and the US (1960-1976), Military Uses of Space (1945-1991), Nicaragua (1978-1990_, Nuclear Non-Proliferation (1945-1991), Philippines (1965-1986), Presidential Directives from Truman to Clinton, South Africa (1962-1989), Soviet Estimate (1947-1991), U.S. Espionage and Intelligence (1947-1996),U.S. Intelligence Community (1947-1989), and U.S. Nuclear History (1955-1968). New collections are added every year.
- Digital Scriptorium at Duke University
This site, produced by the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University, includes a variety of digitized collections, including "Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920"; "Ad*Access", an image database of U.S. and Canadian advertising from 1911-1955; "Historic American Sheet Music", Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement and the Duke Papyrus Archive.
- Digitized Sheet Music on the Web
A collection of links to major sources of digitized sheet music (mainly images of the original pages), gathered by Eunice Schroeder of the UCSB Music Library.
- Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DAS), an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Currently, DAS includes six digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives,Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana.
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
This release of Early Encounters in North America (EENA) contains approximately 40,000 pages of material. When complete the product will include more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700. The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. The papers may be browsed by author, source, year, peoples, places, images, fauna, flora, environment, personal events and cultural events.
- Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Intelligence
EIU Profiles and Reports provide timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business environment in a total of 126 reports about more than 180 countries. They present the political and economic structure of the country, the current political scene, economic policy, domestic economy (covering industry, agriculture, money and finance), foreign trade and payments, and the outlook for 2000-01. Country reports are archived online (web) from 1996 forward.
These authoritative and objective publications are a powerful supplement to
the often less timely information published by governments and international
organizations. For those countries that normally do not produce current
information, these studies are a primary means of determining the conditions
within a nation. The EIU Annual Profile series is updated by quarterly
reports.
Country profiles are typically around 70 pages of textual analysis and data
on a specific country, while the updating reports are about 30 pages in
length. Produced in both HTML and PDF formats, EIU country studies are
available electronically from 1996 onward.
- Einstein Archives Online
In addition to finding aids and a searchable database of the print Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this site includes a large collection of digitized Einstein manuscripts. Note: the manuscripts have been photographed and digitized as JPEGs. While they can be readily viewed, they are difficult to print out in this format.
- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
ECAI is a collaborative project which combines global mapping, imagery, and texts. ECAI provides scholars and other users with a research resource based on digital technology which presents complex combinations of data from multiple disciplines visually and immediately. The over 300 projects listed here make some use of the ECAI technology, and come from a wide range of institutions. Some of the projects (e.g. Valley of the Shadow) have individual listings on this page.
- Empire Online
A collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies from 1492 - 2007 sourced from libraries and archives around the world. This project has been developed to encourage undergraduate work with rare primary documents. By using images of the texts rather than transcriptions, Empire Online enables students to connect with the past with greater immediacy. Each Section features thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The essays relate directly to the source material covered by the online publication with 30-50 hypertext links per essay to documentary evidence.
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
The Brigham Young University Library has assembled a collection of links to transcriptions, translations and facsimiles of primary European historical documents and books from a variety of sources. Documents are grouped by nation or Europe as a whole.
- European Visual Archive
The European Visual Archive (EVA) is a searchable image resource containing historical photographs from the collections of the London Metropolitan Archives and the Stadsarchief Antwerpen. Currently EVA contains 16.958 descriptions of digitised photographs. Images are printable and downloadable, but are copyrighted by the respective archival collections.
- Evans Digital Edition
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of the full text of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
- Everyday Life and Women in America
This digital collection is a resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasizing contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.
- Gallica
Gallica is a collection of digital archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Among others, there is Gallica: Voyages en France, a collection of 3000 books, 6000 images and 130 documents presenting a panorama of the history of France. Note that the site is almost entirely in French.
- The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online
In the late 1800's, Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, the Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with over two million pages of materials spanning four centuries and 15 languages.
- Godey's Ladys Book
In 1830, in Philadelphia, Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey's Lady's Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women.
The magazine was intended to entertain, inform, and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, etc. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine and contained
extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. The Lady's Book was also a vast reservoir of handsome illustrations, which included hand-colored fashion plates,
mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts, and ultimately chromolithographs.
The Web version, from Accessible Archives, features rekeyed full text of all articles, plus scanned copies of the illustrations in both thumbnail and full sized versions. It currently covers 1830-1865, with eventual expansion to 1830-1880.
- Government Views of the Rosenberg Spy Case
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for espionage in Sing Sing Prison on 19 June 1953. They had been convicted of giving American atomic secrets to the Soviets during World War II. Though the government was convinced of their guilt, many people were not and the debate over their guilt or innocence did not stop with their deaths. Subsequent declassified government documents have however indicated that Julius Rosenberg did indeed spy for the Soviets but that the government's case against Ethel Rosenberg was quite weak.
This site concentrates on primary government documents and information about both the Rosenberg case and the people involved. Resources include a number of declassified documents from such Federal agencies as the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
- Hearth
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases of the project will include books published between 1926 and 1950, as well as additional journals. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a collection of this scale and scope has been made available.
- Historical Documents
Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series now contains 33 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
- Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
This collection, from Southern Methodist University, currently contains PDF copies of almost 200 documents including 6,000 pages of pamphlets, posters, booklets and photos from the World War II era. It is scheduled to reach some 500 documents by mid-2002 and will continue to grow after that. It iss browsable by title, and may be searched by basic bibliographic information. More sophisticated searching tools will be added as the project expands.
- Historical Newspapers Online
Historical Newspapers Online contains four major historical resources:
- Palmer's Index to The Times (London) which covers the period from 1790 to 1905 in The Times.
- The Official Index to The Times which takes the coverage forward from 1906 to 1980.
- Palmer's Full Text Online 1785-1870, providing access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's index to The Times. (Note: at present, only 1828-1870 is available; the file is scheduled to be complete by September 2000.)
- The Historical Index to The New York Times which covers The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922. (Note: at present, the file covers 1863-1905 and 1913-1922. The file is scheduled to be complete by September 2000.)
Every word of the Indexes can be searched. Users can restrict their searches to main headings and to particular dates, pages, text types and publications. The full range of Boolean and proximity search operators is available, as well as the facility for wildcard and truncation searching.
Note that the high quality "Print view" of the Times full-text requires Chadwyck-Healey's TIFF viewer plugin, which may be downloaded free of charge from the Historical Newspapers website.
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are
among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the
political environment. HCPP online, with searchable full text, and detailed subject indexing, makes it possible to fully exploit the enormous potential of this resource for the first time.
Our subscription covers the papers of the 19th century (1801-1900).
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR is a membership-based organization providing access to a vast archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The data holdings cover a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law.
Most datasets are freely downloadable, and require manipulation with statistical software, such as SPSS or SASS. For assistance in using the data, contact Paolo Gardinali (paolo@survey.ucsb.edu) in UCSB's Social Science Research Center, 2219 North Hall.
- Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to build more well-rounded collections. Among its most notable collections are:
- Live Music Archive
etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits. This collection is maintained by the etree.org community.
- Moving Images Collections
This collection of almost 2,000 movies is free and open for everyone to use. It includes the Prelinger Archive, a collection of 1,256 advertising and educational films from 1927 to the present.
- LANIC E-Text Collection
The LANIC Etext Collection (University of Texas, Austin) is designed to facilitate access to the hundreds of thousands of pages of full-text
resources that are hosted on LANIC servers. These resources include research papers written by Latin American studies scholars; theses and dissertations; etext versions of books; conference proceedings; speeches by Latin American leaders; periodical publications; and official documents. Some of the etexts are in Spanish, others are in English. In all cases, copyright resides with the respective authors.
- League of Nations Photo Archive
Although the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946, its archives and historical collections survive as invaluable resources for historical research. This digital archive, created at Indiana University includes the League of Nations Overview of Photo Collections with photos of: Personalities (e.g. Woodrow Wilson, Haile Selassie), Assemblies, Councils, Delegations, Commissions, Conferences, the Secretariat, the Permanent Court of International Justice, the Bureau International du Travail, and miscellaneous photos. The originals of the photos are held with the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Library, League of Nations Archives Sub-Unit and are its property. Also included are several illustrated books about the League.
- Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
The Legacy National Tobacco Documents Library (LNTDL) offers integrated searching of tobacco industry documents previously released through disparate industry websites, which are slated to cease in 2008. Through support of the American Legacy Foundation, the LNTDL will maintain this data through a permanent, stable interface. The University of California, San Francisco Library, which hosts the LTDL, has been a leader in the field of tobacco industry document research and access since the UCSF Library Tobacco Control Archives was established in 1994. LNTDL offers searching, viewing, and downloading of over 20 million documents, which relate to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes, among other topics, generally dating from the 1950's to recent years. These documents represent the contents of tobacco industry websites as of July 1999; newer material will be added to this library over time.
- Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
Hosted at Northern Illinois University, this site presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois. In addition, Lincoln/Net offers comprehensive interpretive materials including discussions of eight historical themes and an online Lincoln biography. Materials are drawn from a number of library collections throughout the state of Illinois, and include texts, page images and audio files of songs of the period.
- Linus Pauling Research Notebooks
As with many scientists, two time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded. A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling's career, the Pauling Papers holdings include forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering any number of the scientific fields in which Dr. Pauling involved himself. In this regard, the notebooks contain many of Pauling's laboratory calculations and experimental data, as well as scientific conclusions, ideas for further research and numerous autobiographical musings.
The digital collection, created by the Special Collections Department of the Oregon State University Library, contains scanned images of the notebooks. Eventually, it will have HTML versions as well, which require a browser capable of handling special characters (such as Netscape 6.x, Opera, or Mozilla) for best viewing.
- Making of America: at Cornell University and University of Michgan
Hosted at Cornell University and the University of Michigan, Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The Cornell collection currently contains 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints while the Michigan collection contains
approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints, estimated at over 3% of all American monographs published in the 19th century. All are in the form of searchable scanned images.
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
The official Archives of the United States government provide a variety of online primary sources including:
- Online Exhibit Hall
Features high resolution images of a variety of manuscripts, artworks and photographs from the U.S. National Archives.
- Watergate Trial Tapes Transcripts
These are the transcripts of 12.5 hours of White House tapes which were played in court during the U.S. vs. Mitchell, et al and U.S. vs. Connally trials in 1974. They are a portion of the 60 hours of tapes subpoenaed by the Special Prosecutor's Office (the rest are, as yet, unavailable in electronic transcripts.)
- New Deal Network
In October, 1996, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) launched The New Deal Network (NDN), a research and teaching resource on the World Wide Web devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. NDN is now based at the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University. NDN contains a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period). Currently there are over 20,000 items in this database. Additionally, NDN has curriculum guides for teachers and students.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries is a project of Alexander Street Press and the University of Chicago. Its initial release contains some 3,000 pages of letters and diaries from 69 women. It will shortly double in size. When complete the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies will enhance the use of the database.
The database is searchable, and browsable by author, date, personal events and historical events.
- The Nuremberg Project
This project of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion (RJLR) is posting documents from the Nuremberg war crimes trials, along with commentaries on the documents. The first set is now posted, with documents added approximately every six months.
The original documents are from the personal archive of General William J. Donovan, who served as special assistant to the U.S. chief of counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The International Military Tribunal was convened following the conclusion of World War II to hold accountable the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust. The tribunal addressed four counts: conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes (including genocide), and crimes against humanity. The archive is now housed at the Cornell University School of Law Library, which is making them available to the RJLR for digitization.
- OhioLINK Digital Media Center
The OhioLINK Digital Media Center provides access to sevferal collections of digital images. Among those accessible to the general public are the Social Sciences database of over 500 images of Mayan archaeology from oberlin College; the Wright Brothers Collection, containing over 300 images from the early days of aviation, from Wright State University and a collection of LANDSAT satellite imagery of the state of Ohio.
- Online Archive of California
A core component of the California Digital Library, the Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. The OAC includes a single, searchable database of "finding aids" to primary sources and their digital facsimiles. Primary sources include letters, diaries, manuscripts, legal and financial records, photographs and other pictorial items, maps, architectural and engineering records, artwork, scientific logbooks, electronic records, sound recordings, oral histories artifacts and ephemera. At present, only a portion of the finding aids link to the actual digitized items. Among those that do are:
- California Heritage Collection
The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Selected from over 160 individual collections, this unique resource uses the latest online archiving techniques to highlight the rich themes of California's history.
- Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
This is an extensive collection of diaries and other personal documents, housed at several different institutions, but brought together in a virtual collection. The JARDA website describes the project, but the images, documents and oral histories are most easily accessed through OAC.
- Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870
This collection includes material from the following newspapers: Delaware County American (Media, Pennsylvania); Delaware County Republican (Darby & Chester, Pennsylvania); The Upland Union (Chester, Pennsylvania); Delaware County Democrat (Chester, Pennsylvania); The Post Boy (Chester, Pennsylvania).
This database documents the industrialization of predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century. This collection contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements, and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
- Pepys Ballad Archive
Created by the Early Modern Center in the English Department at UCSB, the Pepys Ballad Archive offers a
fully-searchable database of over 1,800 broadside ballads, mostly of the seventeenth century and mostly in black-letter print.
The ballads were collected by Samuel Pepys into five albums, which are held at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The ballads in the database
are accessible as facsimiles, as facsimile transcriptions, and as recorded songs. Also provided are full citations for the ballads as well
as background essays about ballad culture of the period and Pepys’s categories for organizing his collection.
- The Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Digital Library, hosted at Tufts University, is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of humanities from the ancient world to the present. It includes an extensive collection of classical texts, both in the original languages and in translation, a variety of text tools and lexica, over 30,000 images of art and architecture, an encyclopedic dictionary of terms from classical art and architecture and an atlas of the Greek and Roman world, as well as other studies of the topics.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers
UCSB subscribes to historical backfiles of three major newspapers through ProQuest. They are:
- Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription project is an electronic collection of primary source materials, including court records, contemporary books, maps, images, and literary works, relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692. It is hosted at the University of Virginia e-text archive.
- United States Department of Justice Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Rooms
This site includes copies of documents frequently requested from the Department of Justice and its subsidiary agencies (including the FBI) under the Freedom of Information Act. There is also a collection of links to the FOIA Reading Rooms of other Federal departments and agencies.
- United States Historical Census Browser
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970. The census data is easily browsed by state and county for each category in which data was collected in a given census. This WWW site is intended to aid in browsing these data files. It is
not intended as a tool for downloading data for further research or more involved manipulation. Those who require the original data should contact their ICPSR Official Representative or ICPSR (see above) itself.
For other sources of census data see the InfoSurf US Federal documents page.
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
This site showcases some of the print, photograph and textual collections held in the University of Washington Libraries and in UW academic departments, as well as some found in the collections of their partner libraries, museums and historical societies. Current collections include an extensive collection of images and texts on American Indians of the Pacific Northwest; the "Digital Northwest" image collections; several biological and environmental image collections, and a database of architecture and city views from around the world.
- Valley of the Shadow Project
The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. Also included is a GIS Atlas of the areas covered.
- Western History Photography Collection
This collection of the Western History/Geneology Department of the Denver Public Library and the Colorado Historical Society, contains some 80,000 selected images and catalog records of Native Americans, pioneers, early railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns, from their total archives of over one million items. Notable collections depict the daily lives of the Tenth Mountain Division ski troops and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the Clarence Moreledge photographs at Wounded Knee, and the Charles S. Lillybridge collection which depicts daily life in Denver around the turn of the 20th century.
- Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive (WOMDA)
The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive contains a host of material relating to the First World War poet Wilfred Owen, in particular, and a large amount of related background material on the War in general . Contents include high quality digital images of his manuscripts and letters, copies of photographs, audio interviews with WWI veterans, video clips from official British Army films of the war and other miscellany.
- World War II Resources
This site, created by the Pearl Harbor Working Group, is an extensive collection of primary texts covering World War II, and the pre- and post-war periods, from many of the governments involved, plus links to other WWII Web resources. The original core of the collection was the complete Congressional hearings on the Pearl Harbor attack (over 5,000 pages) but it has grown to encompass far more than that.
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