Digital Archives & Collections
19th Century Schoolbooks Examine digital editions of 140 schoolbooks and two surveys of historic schoolbooks by John Nietz, the founder of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection.
_______________________ Academic Info Digital Libraries Provides links to digital collections from libraries, museums, and academic organizations and sites offering unique online content.
_______________________ Africana Digitization Project A project at the University of Wisconsin offering free access to searchable online copies of published sources for West African history, with a focus on the Atlantic Slave Trade era.
_______________________ American Memory Library of Congress gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
_______________________ Bartleby.com Project Bartleby is a full text database of quotations, verse, and reference works from over 100 sources.
_______________________ British Library Images Online Search or browse (by subject or title) thousands of images from the British Library’s collections.
_______________________ Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive University of Michigan Library's archive containing documents and images chronicling events surrounding desegregation up to the present.
_______________________ Camelot Project Database of Arthurian full texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.
_______________________ Central Index of Digitized Imprints (ZVDD) ZVDD is a German national union catalog of digitized materials for scholarly relevant digitized resources dating from the beginning of printing to the 21st century.
_______________________ Cervantes Project A comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works and life maintained by Texas A&M University.
_______________________ Champlain Society Digital Collection The collection includes first-hand accounts of Samuel de Champlain's voyages in New France as well as the diary from Sir John Franklin's first land expedition to the Arctic, 1819-22.
_______________________ Civil Rights Digital Library Includes voices and images from the civil-rights movement featuring hours of historical news footage showing such events as the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock and Martin Luther King Jr accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.
_______________________ Complete works of Charles Darwin online Contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts, a detailed bibliography and manuscript catalogue.
_______________________ Conversations with History Transcripts and video of interviews with diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists.
_______________________ Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) CDLI makes available the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, circa 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
_______________________ CyberCemetery Provides permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct United States government agencies and commissions.
_______________________ Digital Clendening Include hundreds of images taken from a collection of rare medical texts in the Clendening Library.
_______________________ Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections A web-searchable database containing nearly 300 public domain online digital collections of the members of the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a consortium of libraries and related agencies.
_______________________ Digital Library North Rhine-Westphalia Provides access to a number of library catalogues in Europe and the United States, along with subject databases as well as full-text documents.
_______________________ Digital Library of the Commons DLC is a gateway to the international literature on the commons, which focuses on the relation between the physical resource and human institutions.
_______________________ Digitized Collections of the National Library of the Netherlands Full-text selection of manuscripts and printed works.
_______________________ Directory of Open Access Repositories OpenDOAR provides descriptions and access to hundreds of institutional and subject-based repositories.
_______________________ Dirksen Center Projects Contains a series of multi-media projects with resources on a variety of topics from civil rights to editorial cartoons.
_______________________ DocumentArchiv.de documentArchiv ist ein online-Archiv, in dem historische Dokumente und Quellen gesammelt werden.
_______________________ Documenting the American South DocSouth is a collection of books, manuscripts, and other sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
_______________________ Dramatis Personae Archive Covers European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850 and contains rare digitized books, maps, newspapers, and journals.
_______________________ Einstein Archives Online Includes scientific writings, non-scientific writings, travel diaries, general information on the Albert Einstein Archives, and an itemized database of approximately 43,000 Einstein and Einstein-related archival items.
_______________________ Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature Lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
_______________________ eScholarship Editions The eScholarship Editions collection includes the full text of more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
_______________________ Ethnomathematics Digital Library Database of links to over 700 full-text articles, scanned books, and other documents exploring the interaction of mathematics and the culture in which it arises.
_______________________ European Archive A digital library of cultural artifacts including books, music, images, websites and moving images.
_______________________ Flickr An online photo management and sharing application containing images crossing all subject areas.
_______________________ Founding of the Historically Black College and University Digital Collection A collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives containing photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, images of campus buildings, alumni letters, memorabilia, and programs from campus events.
_______________________ Gallica The digitization project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France focusing on the cultural history of France and French speaking areas throughout the world.
_______________________ Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources A list of links, databases, and resources which provide an entry point to the scale and depth of the international collections held by the Library of Congress.
_______________________ Historic Government Publications from WWII Search or browse a collection of over 300 United States government documents produced during World War II.
_______________________ In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience AAME presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and 60 maps on the history of African-American migration.
_______________________ Ingenious Ingenious: The NMSI NOF-digitise website, contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates to provide insights into the relationship between science and contemporary culture.
_______________________ International Dunhuang Project IDP contains information and images of more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites.
_______________________ Internet Archive A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
_______________________ Kentuckiana Digital Library Contains over 1,000 volumes or over 230,000 digital pages in the electronic text collection related to Kentucky history, as well as dozens of interviews in the Oral History Collection.
_______________________ LA84 Foundation Digital Archive Provides more than 40,000 documents in sports history, covering academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications.
_______________________ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog PPOC contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library.
_______________________ Life Photo Archive Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
_______________________ Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952 - 2004 An online exhibition with more than 250 television commercials from
every election year beginning in 1952 -- the era of the first campaign ads -- up to and including offerings from this year's campaign.
_______________________ Making of America : Cornell Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
_______________________ Making of America : Michigan Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
_______________________ Making the Modern World United Kingdom's National Museum of Science & Industry site that offers stories about science and invention from the eighteenth century to today.
_______________________ Medici Archive Project Tracks all references to people, places and topics in the Medici Granducal Archive.
_______________________ MINERVA The MINERVA Web Preservation Project was established to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve born digital source materials.
_______________________ National Science Digital Library NSDL was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to direct users to resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.
_______________________ North American Indian Contains the full text of the twenty volumes of narrative text and photogravure images of Edward Sheriff Curtis's The North American Indian (1907-1930).
_______________________ Nuremberg Trials Project Contains documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).
_______________________ OAIster Search for full text collections of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.
_______________________ Online Archive of California Contains about 1,000 texts, including transcripts of oral histories, personal narratives, letters, press releases, newspaper articles, and other types of documents.
_______________________ OpCit Project The Open Citation Project provides reference linking and citation analysis for open archives.
_______________________ Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 A searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts collections.
_______________________ Picture Collection Online PCO is a searchable collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
_______________________ Picturing America Provides high-quality reproductions and images of notable American art.
_______________________ PLEIADI Project A portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives.
_______________________ Princeton Dante Project A full text selection of Dante's works in Italian and English, along with multimedia resources, biographies and lectures.
_______________________ Registry of Open Access Repositories ROAR allows users to search or browse more than 1,000 OAI-compliant open-access eprint archives.
_______________________ Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects Contains links to projects that include digitized copies of publications originating from the United States Government.
_______________________ Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Archive of photographs depicting Chinese urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside during the early part of the 20th century.
_______________________ Smithsonian National Museum of American History Online Exhibits The museum exhibitions explore major themes in American history and culture, from the War of Independence to the present day.
_______________________ South East Asian Images & Texts Project : SEAiT Digital archive of historical photography for Southeast Asia developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
_______________________ Southwest Crossroads Southwest Crossroads: Cultures and Histories of the American Southwest contains original texts, poems, fiction, maps, paintings, photographs, oral histories, and films covering New Mexico and the Southwest.
_______________________ TASI Digital Image Archives Search the Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) database to identify a wide range of digital image collections and projects.
_______________________ Valley of the Shadow : Two Communities in the American Civil War The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.
_______________________ Veterans History Project Search for first-hand accounts of United States Veterans from World War I (1914-1920), World War II (1939-1946), Korean War (1950-1955), Vietnam War (1961-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1990-1995).
_______________________ War Times Journal Archives Contains the full text military memoirs, headquarters dispatches, correspondence, eyewitness accounts, and photo galeries.
_______________________ Western Waters Digital Library The Western Waters Digital Library aims to be a searchable comprehensive digital information resource about water in the western United States.
_______________________ Word on the Street The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides printed between 1650 and 1910.
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