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.
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Academic Info Digital Libraries
Provides links to digital collections from libraries, museums, and academic organizations and sites offering unique online content.
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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.
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American Memory
Library of Congress gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
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Bartleby.com
Project Bartleby is a full text database of quotations, verse, and reference works from over 100 sources.
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British Library Images Online
Search or browse (by subject or title) thousands of images from the British Library’s collections.
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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.
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Camelot Project
Database of Arthurian full texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.
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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.
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Cervantes Project
A comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works and life maintained by Texas A&M University.
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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.
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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.
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Complete works of Charles Darwin online
Contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts, a detailed bibliography and manuscript catalogue.
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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.
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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.
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CyberCemetery
Provides permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct United States government agencies and commissions.
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Digital Clendening
Include hundreds of images taken from a collection of rare medical texts in the Clendening Library.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Digitized Collections of the National Library of the Netherlands
Full-text selection of manuscripts and printed works.
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Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR provides descriptions and access to hundreds of institutional and subject-based repositories.
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Dirksen Center Projects
Contains a series of multi-media projects with resources on a variety of topics from civil rights to editorial cartoons.
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DocumentArchiv.de
documentArchiv ist ein online-Archiv, in dem historische Dokumente und Quellen gesammelt werden.
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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.
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Dramatis Personae Archive
Covers European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850 and contains rare digitized books, maps, newspapers, and journals.
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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.
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Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
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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.
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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.
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European Archive
A digital library of cultural artifacts including books, music, images, websites and moving images.
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Flickr
An online photo management and sharing application containing images crossing all subject areas.
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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.
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Gallica
The digitization project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France focusing on the cultural history of France and French speaking areas throughout the world.
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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.
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Historic Government Publications from WWII
Search or browse a collection of over 300 United States government documents produced during World War II.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Internet Archive
A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Library of Congress Web Archives
The Library of Congress Web Archives (LCWA) contains collections of archived web sites selected by subject specialists to represent web-based information on a designated topic.
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Life Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Medici Archive Project
Tracks all references to people, places and topics in the Medici Granducal Archive.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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OAIster
Search for full text collections of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.
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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.
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OpCit Project
The Open Citation Project provides reference linking and citation analysis for open archives.
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Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
The database contains 55,000 documents covering the Early Republic, from the handling of Indian affairs, pensions and procurement to the nature of the first American citizens’ relationship with their new Federal government.
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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.
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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.
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Picturing America 
Provides high-quality reproductions and images of notable American art.
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PLEIADI Project
A portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives.
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Princeton Dante Project
A full text selection of Dante's works in Italian and English, along with multimedia resources, biographies and lectures.
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Registry of Open Access Repositories
ROAR allows users to search or browse more than 1,000 OAI-compliant open-access eprint archives.
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Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects
Contains links to projects that include digitized copies of publications originating from the United States Government.
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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.
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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.
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South East Asian Images & Texts Project : SEAiT
Digital archive of historical photography for Southeast Asia developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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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.
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TASI Digital Image Archives
Search the Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) database to identify a wide range of digital image collections and projects.
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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.
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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).
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War Times Journal Archives
Contains the full text military memoirs, headquarters dispatches, correspondence, eyewitness accounts, and photo galeries.
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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.
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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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